2nd Commercial Vehicle Technology Symposium Kaiserslautern

13 to 15 March 2012 at the University of Kaiserslautern

EVENT INFORMATIONCONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTAND CALL FOR PAPERS

Conference Language

The conference languages will be German and English. The german presentations will be interpreted simultane-ously into English. Abstracts and presentations will be available either in English or in both languages.

Conference Fees

■ Regular conference fee: 500 ¤

■ Members of CVC, ZNT and DNT: 300 ¤

■ Presenters and poster exhibitors: free

■ Students: 20 ¤*

* The fi rst 50 students who register will receive free admission tickets. For students who want to

attend the reception at Fritz-Walter Stadium, the conference fee is 100¤

Registration and Contact

Online registration from 01 Oct 2011 to 02 March 2012 atwww.cvt-symposium.de

TU KaiserslauternOffi ce of the Center for Commercial Vehicle Technology ZNTPhone: +49 (0) 6 31 205-52 20Fax: +49 (0) 6 31 205-37 30Conference email: info@cvt-symposium.de

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Program Committee is inviting professionals from in-dustry and academia to actively participate in this confer-ence and to submit presentation proposals for the topic areas listed on the reverse.

Furthermore, rooms and time slots for workshops can be offered during the symposium.

If interested, please contact:

TU KaiserslauternOffi ce of the Center for Commercial Vehicle Technology ZNTPhone: +49 (0) 6 31 205-52 20Fax: +49 (0) 6 31 205-37 30Conference email: info@cvt-symposium.de

Further information can be found on the Internet atwww.cvt-symposium.de

Submission of Proposals

An abstract of your paper (one DIN A4 page) on one of the conference‘s main topics should be submitted by 30 September 2011. Please make sure to use our template for submitting your abstract. The template will be available for download fom the symposium‘s website starting in July 2011: www.cvt-symposium.de

Contents

■ Assignment to topic area

■ Meaningful title

■ Short description (incl. keywords)

■ Data (name, address, company, position)of submitting author

■ Information on language of presentation

Language

English or German

The Program Committee will decide whether to accept and how to categorize the submitted papers, which will then be presented in either German or English in 20-min-ute presentations.

The authors of the accepted papers agree to submitting a camera-ready copy of the paper for the conference CD:Approx. 10 DIN A4 pages in German or English with an abstract in English.

Papers accepted for the poster session will be printed in a separate section of the conference proceedings.

Dates

■ Submission of abstracts: 30 Sep 2011

■ Notifi cation of authors: 31 Oct 2011

■ Submission of full version: 10 Jan 2012

Costs

Presenters and poster exhibitors (one person each) can take part in the conference for free. No reimbursement is possible for travel expenses and accommodation costs.

SPONSORING

The primary sponsor of the 2nd Commercial Vehicle Tech-nology Symposiums is John Deere.

We also offer a special sponsoring program for you. If you are interested in this, please get in touch with us.

For further information, please visit:www.cvt-symposium.de

We thank our platinum sponsor John Deere.

PRESENTATION OF CONTRIBUTIONS

© John Deere

The large numbers of presenters, exhibitors, and participants who attended the fi rst Kaiserslautern CVT Symposium in 2010 are proof that there is great demand for such a platform for knowledge and information exchange in the area of commer-cial vehicle technology. This is our motivation for organizing the follow-up event CVT 2012.

Today, this industry has a much more positive outlook on the future than a year ago. The economy is recovering steadily. Now it is important not to miss any market trends and to sup-plement and improve one‘s product portfolio.

For the conference, we are expecting contributions from re-search, development, and construction in the domains mechan-ical engineering, electrical engineering, applied mathematics, computer science, and mechatronics that can be assigned to the following topic areas:

■ Technologies and processes that improve energy and resource effi ciency and accommodate the global demand and avail-ability of energy sources, for instance by saving resources or making increased use of renewable energies;

■ Solutions for the assessment and assurance of safety and reliability for the investment asset “commercial vehicle“ in all of its areas of use;

■ Improvement of productivity and quality in development through stronger use of IT technologies for computation-based processes all the way to virtual product development;

■ New product ideas and vehicle functions based on a better understanding of vehicle/environment/human interaction to provide optimal design and support in the work place “com-mercial vehicle“ and to the affected business processes.

Once again, we have been able to attract well-renowned professionals and managers from industry and academia to this symposium. We are looking forward to receiving numer-ous paper submissions.

Professor Dr.-Ing. Christian Schindler

Speaker of the Program Committee

PREFACE

Wachstum durch Innovation – EFRE

TARGET GROUPS AND TOPICS

TARGET AUDIENCE

Professionals and managers from industry and academia from the fi elds of

■ Trucks■ Buses■ Agricultural machienry and vehicles■ Construction machinery■ Special-purpose vehicles

MAIN TOPICS

Energy and Resource Effi ciency

■ Energy- and resource-effi cient product lifecylce■ Develop of energy- and resource-saving products■ Electromobility■ Effi cient production technologies and processes■ Lightweight design

Safety and Reliability

■ Functional safety■ Failure safety and robustness■ Component design bases and load data analysis■ Product testing■ Model-based diagnosis and model-based monitoring■ Quality assurance of embedded software■ Test automation

Virtual Product Development

■ System simulation and component simulation■ On-board simulation■ Variation and confi guration management■ Modeling of usage- and variant-diversity■ Digital valiation

Vehicle-Environment-Human Interaction

■ Driver assistance systems■ Chassis control systems■ Usage modeling■ Tire/- and tool/ground interaction■ Human-machine interface, usability■ Vehicle interneting

Program Committee

■ Prof. Dr.-Ing. J. C. Aurich, TU Kaiserslautern■ Prof. Dr. K. Berns, TU Kaiserslautern■ Dr. W. Burget, Liebherr-France SAS, Colmar Cedex (F)■ Dr. K. Dreßler, Fraunhofer ITWM, Kaiserslautern■ Prof. Dr.-Ing. P. Eberhard, Universität Stuttgart■ Dr. J. Ebert, Schmitz Cargobull, Altenberge■ Dr. K. Heldmann, Keiper, Kaiserslautern■ O. Hermanns, Fraunhofer ITWM, Kaiserslautern■ Prof. Dr. K. Höhn, John Deere, Moline, Illinois (USA)■ Dr. B. Jörg, CVC, Kaiserslautern■ R. Kalmar, Fraunhofer IESE, Kaiserslautern■ Prof. Dr.-Ing. G. Kunze, TU Dresden■ Prof. Dr.-Ing. P. Liggesmeyer, TU Kaiserslautern■ Prof. Dr.-Ing. S. Liu, TU Kaiserslautern■ Dr. J. F. Reid, John Deere, Moline, Illinois (USA)■ Dr. F. Sager, BPW Bergische Achsen, Wiehl■ Dr. E. Sax, EvoBus, Mannheim■ Prof. Dr.-Ing. C. Schindler, TU Kaiserslautern■ B. Walter, VOLVO CE, Konz■ G. Weiberg, Daimler, Stuttgart

Organizers

Commercial Vehicle Alliance (CVA)Umbrella organization

■ Center for Commercial Vehicle Technology (ZNT)TU Kaiserslautern

■ Innovation Cluster Digital Commercial Vehicle Technology (DNT) of the Fraunhofer institutes IESE and ITWM

■ Commercial Vehicle Cluster Südwest (CVC)

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

Tuesday, 13 March 2012

6 p.m. Welcome and opening of exhibit, refreshments

Wednesday, 14 March 2012

9 a.m. Offi cial opening by Prof. Dr. Helmut Schmidt,President of TU Kaiserslautern

Welcome addresses by politicians

Talk by a member of theFraunhofer-Gesellschaft Board of Directors

10 a.m. Keynote from industry:Dr. E. Sax, EvoBus, Mannheim

Keynote from academia

Presentations in topic groupsuntil approx. 5.30 p.m.

7 p.m. Dinner at Fritz Walter Stadium

Thursday, 15 March 2012

9 a.m. Presentations in topic groups

2 p.m. Final plenary session

3 p.m. End of event

Accompanying professional exhibit with industry booths, poster sessions, and product presentations

RECRUITMENT DAY CVTTuesday, 13 March 2012, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

ORGANIZERS