October 9 is marked as the opening of the second day of the 16th European Automotive Congress (EAEC-2019). The experiences of experts from various areas of the automotive industry from Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Germany, Poland, Austria, Greece, France, China, Sri Lanka, Italy, Great Britain, India, Vietnam, Spain and Serbia were shared. They presented their projects, raised internationally important issues and proposed solutions to existing problems.
Download all the photos of the second day from the link: files.bntu.by (photos).
70 reports were submitted on October 9. The speeches were held in the format of group meetings from 9 am to 6 pm in six sections:
“Today is the most important day,” said the rector of the Belarusian National Technical University Sergei Kharytonchyk, “and despite the fact that the largest results are reported in plenary meetings, during the work of group sections specialists of similar fields can exchange their ideas and contacts. And most importantly, such contacts do not remain in the mind or on paper, they are subsequently realized in joint publications, programs, internships”.
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Together with the participants of the congress, we understood the pressing problems of the automotive future, one of which is the modeling of autopilots. If the driver learns to drive a vehicle in a driving school, then such training, testing should be provided for autopilots. About how to predict the behavior of “pseudo-artificial intelligence”, to avoid accidents and human casualties, said Alexander Zharkov, chief technical consultant of the software company MSC Software (Russia). Alexander made a presentation entitled “Support for certification of noise emissions from road vehicles with Actran Simulation software”.
“Our company creates software for solving various engineering problems for strength, dynamics, kinematics, durability, and acoustic calculation. And our new direction is virtual simulation of vehicle movement. Before releasing an autopilot on public roads, our program places it in conditions as close as possible to the real situation on the road. The interaction of the autopilot with the environment is monitored by specially modeled sensors. Based on the received signals, they decide to move on, turn, brake, go around and so on. The autopilot does not know if such signals come from the real world or from the virtual one. If you test autopilots on public roads, this, firstly, takes a lot of time, and secondly, it is unsafe. In a virtual environment, an autopilot travels hundreds of thousands of kilometers without creating security threats. ”
As noted by Alexander Zharkov, the prospect of the imminent appearance of cars with autopilot on the roads of Belarus is small.
“The technical problem has been practically solved: the autopilot is able to move itself and make the right decisions. However, there remains a legislative problem: today, only the driver is responsible for what happens to the machine. Manufacturers do not want to take the responsibility for the behavior of the car in autopilot mode".
Serious topics such as the intelligent urban safe transport system, battery aging, estimation of fuel consumption and emission levels, improving the efficiency of vehicle brake control, the automotive industry 4.0, trends in the innovative development of the logistics system and many others were raised during the meetings.
The culmination of the second day of the European Automotive Congress was the signing of a memorandum between BNTU and Dassault Systemes, according to which all students of the Belarusian National Technical University get the opportunity to legally use one of the most popular products for three-dimensional design SolidWorks. Students will be able to work in the software package of the computer-aided design system both at the university and at home.
“Dassault Systemes is involved in the development of about 90% of all cars in the world, we work with the largest manufacturers in the automotive industry and not only,” says SolidWorks Business Development Director in Ukraine, Georgia and the CIS, Azamat Kardanov, who introduced SolidWorks brand to the audience as part of the report "Industrial renaissance in transport."
“This is a big step forward. SolidWorks is a very important technical product for the training of highly qualified engineers. It will allow students using a computer to create objects that can subsequently be used to model certain physical processes. In addition, SolidWorks is accessible and easy to use, the life of students will become much easier, especially in terms of studying the methods and algorithms for creating design documentation. Over time, the product will be introduced at all faculties in the curriculum of various disciplines, primarily in the "engineering graphics", - said Yuri Nikalaychyk, Vice-Rector for Academic Activity at BNTU.
Along with foreign delegates, students of BNTU also became listeners of reports. “This is a unique opportunity for students to learn first-hand about the main directions of further improvement and development of the automotive industry, to understand what to focus on when studying a particular discipline, to discover new horizons and meet interesting and famous people,” said the dean of Automotive and Tractor Faculty Kapsky Denis Vasilievich.
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