Expertise

One of the most important traits of the Tecnalia Automotive unit is its deep-rooted specialisation, allowing us to tailor our collaborations with companies on the basis of our wide-ranging knowledge of their needs, the available technologies, their applications and the conditions needed to ensure that they are implanted efficiently. Tecnalia’s value proposal for the Automotive Sector is focused on the following technological lines:

Structure, chassis and suspension

Hot stamping processes for lightweight metallic materials Composites: automation of manufacturing processes, process optimization and characterization of composite materials Casting New joining methods Functional part evaluation, specially related to safety

Powertrain / Drivetrain Lightweight components, energy and material efficient processes Advanced e-drives control Development of advanced control functions for chassis and powertrain Dynamic modelling and simulation of complete vehicles Automated Driving

Sensoring and communications for vehicle automation Advanced control of automated vehicles Testing and validating cooperative algorithms for automated vehicles Cooperative trajectory planning methods for dense mixed traffic conditions Real time risk evaluation of automated and semi-automated vehicles

Participation in EU Projects and International Activities

Tecnalia is involved or has been involved in the following EU projects: AUTODRIVE PRYSTINE UnCoVerCPS ENABLE-S3 STEVE BEHICLE EUNICE SYRNEMO E-LIGHT CITYMOBIL2 EVOLUTION FAST-IN-CHARGE SARTRE YBRIDIO COSMO SMARTCEM POWER DRIVER KNOW4CAR ECOMOVE AMITRAN MOBINET TAILOR TOOL POLYBRIGHT GPHS STT ELONHOTSTAMP