Automotive drive recorder as black box for low end vehicles

The Black Box concept in automotive industry is adopted from aviation industry and is mandatory in some countries. In developing countries like India, this system is not commercialized because of the unavailability of norms from the government. But, with the growing demand of vehicles and adaption of new emission standard by the government, more safety systems will be the need of near future and this work will help in providing a cost effective Black box which can help improving the safety systems. This work focuses on developing the Black box system through Model-Based Design (MBD) considering the 1616a IEEE Standard for Motor Vehicle Event Data Recorders (MVEDRs) Amendment 1: MVEDR Connector Lockout Apparatus (MVEDRCLA) for low end light motor vehicles (LMVs). The dSPACE MicroAutoBox II is the prototyping embedded hardware which act as the Black Box. The computational and data storage capabilities of dSPACE MicroAutoBox II make it possible to process and store the data for long time using its flight data recorder feature. However few datasets can also be stored to the external secure digital (SD) card. This work is mainly focused on the algorithm development and implementation of such system. A sensor fault detection technique is also incorporated in the proposed system.