Deploying Health Monitoring ECU Towards Enhancing the Performance of In-Vehicle Network

TL;DR

This paper proposes a health monitoring ECU designed to enable early troubleshooting and maintenance of vehicle ECUs, thereby improving reliability and safety in in-vehicle networks.

Contribution

It introduces a novel health monitoring ECU system that enhances early fault detection and maintenance for automotive ECUs, addressing reliability concerns.

Findings

Improved fault detection capabilities

Enhanced vehicle safety and reliability

Potential for reduced maintenance costs

Abstract

Electronic Control Units (ECUs) are the fundamental electronic building blocks of any automotive system. They are multi-purpose, multi-chip and multicore computer systems where more functionality is delivered in software rather than hardware. ECUs are valuable assets for the vehicles as critical time bounded messages are communicated through. Looking into the safety criticality, already developed mission critical systems such as ABS, ESP etc, rely fully on electronic components leading to increasing requirements of more reliable and dependable electronic systems in vehicles. Hence it is inevitable to maintain and monitor the health of an ECU which will enable the ECUs to be followed, assessed and improved throughout their life-cycle starting from their inception into the vehicle. In this paper, we propose a Health monitoring ECU that enables the early trouble shooting and servicing of the vehicle prior to any catastrophic failure.