Reliability of Automotive Multidomain Controllers: Advancements in electronics cooling technologies

The contemporary automotive market is undergoing rapid changes that will inevitably revolutionize the road transportation sector in the years to come. Alongside electric vehicles and sophisticated vehicular communication systems, autonomous driving (AD) is emerging as a game-changing technology of the near future. To enable this cutting-edge functionality, passenger vehicles are equipped with various data acquisition and processing systems that collect information from vehicle surroundings. Onboard sensors, such as cameras, lidar, and radar, produce large data streams that are integrated and interpreted by processing units and subsequently used to generate signals to control car behavior. To ensure an acceptable level of safety in on-road operating conditions, these operations are performed in (near) real time. Additionally, a typical modern vehicle includes a combination of communication, driver assistance, active safety, and sophisticated infotainment devices, each of which is often a state-of-the-art electronic system [1].