EVENTS

Seminar on the current state of electric vehicles

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Strengthening the European Electric Vehicle Market:
Promoting Solutions towards Sustainable and Efficient Mobility

Date: Tuesday 20th September 2016
Time: 10:00am — 4:30pm
Venue: Thon Hotel Brussels City Centre

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Eric Verhulst, CEO/CTO of Altreonic will be chairing this international symposium. It will examine the latest developments regarding electric vehicles at EU level. It will also analyse the importance of investing in electric and alternative vehicles for economic growth and job creation. Furthermore, the symposium will explore the benefits of using an electric vehicle, from an environmental point of view and evaluate new solutions toward improving electric mobility.

EVENTS

Podcar City & Advanced Transit 19-21 September

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Altreonic will be presenting at the Podcar City conference on Tuesday 20 September 2016, Antwerp.

Title: The long road from proof of concept to real-world autonomous driving.

Abstract:

Productivity and safety in hospitals, factories and cities can greatly be increased by substituting human drivers in vehicles by computer-controlled mechanisms. This requires expertise from various disciplines, such as control theory, hazard & risk analysis, and formal development techniques. Altreonic has in-house methodologies addressing these challenges and is a forerunner in using formal methods for safety engineering.

Altreonic’s light electric vehicle platform, called Kurt, relies on a modular and scalable architecture and is completely controlled by software. It is the result of a clear-cut conceptual design. The scalable architecture was designed from the very beginning with autonomous driving in mind, even if the standard configuration doesn’t provide this capability. Steer by wire, e.g. control by software is used to reduce the material cost but also to increase safety and flexibility. Formal methods are used to achieve the trust that users want.

We will illustrate how some parts of Altreonic’s vehicle and remote-control device have been formally designed, model checked and subsequently implemented and tested. The main gain of formal methods for Altreonic is conceptual clarity pertaining to all engineering phases of the Kurt vehicle platform.

Presenter: Karel Van Oudheusden, Safety Engineer at Altreonic.

KURT

Seal of Excellence for KURT

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Altreonic received the seal of excellence from the European Commission for its SME-II project proposal under the title “Sustainable electric mobility for urban environments by deploying a novel and disruptive e-vehicle system for city logistics and people transport”.

This means that Altreonic passed all stringent Horizon 2020 assessment thresholds for all award criteria: excellence, impact, quality and efficiency of implementation. The very positive evaluation by independent international experts is a very positive encouragement for our efforts over the last 3 years to develop KURT as a modular and scalable electric vehicle platform. Uniquely versatile, it might well be an enabler for urban electro-mobility, indoors as well as outdoors, to take off.

CONCEPTS, KURT

KURT meets Tesla: enabling urban electro-mobility

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The breakthrough

Electric driving is the future. The concept is far from novel, but due to cheap oil and deficient batteries it was too early to convince the general public. That is about to change as mobility with traditional engines is reaching its limits. Batteries are increasingly becoming more powerful and affordable. Away with pollution, noise and traffic jams.

Continue reading KURT meets Tesla: enabling urban electro-mobility →

CONCEPTS, KURT

Steer by Web for KURT

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Altreonic has demonstrated for the first time “steer by web” capability for its KURT vehicle. Using a camera input and a smartphone, the vehicle was remotely steered over internet using a web application. Even with the application server and the vehicle being widely apart (about 3000 km) and using a standard ADSL connection, the control was with minimal delay. This brings KURT in the domain of Internet of Things, enabling semi-autonomous driving for a fleet of KURT vehicles.

The KURT light-weight vehicle is completely modular and driven by a redundant software and hardware architecture. Internally, Altreonic’s VirtuosoNext network-centric RTOS is used to execute the distributed control strategy of 4 independent wheels each with their own motor. Further work will focus on increasing security and error resilience. For more information, contact Altreonic.

KURT

Altreonic unveils the KURT e-vehicle platform

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A modular and cost-efficient enabler for Urban Mobility

Since 3 years Altreonic NV is pursuing the development and market deployment of its light-weight KURT™ electric vehicle system (L6 category). Its disruptive and uniquely modular architecture (patent pending) was specifically designed for urban environments, out-doors as well as in-doors. Continue reading Altreonic unveils the KURT e-vehicle platform →

CONCEPTS, KURT

KURT is a breakthrough for Light E-Vehicles

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Peter Harrop, Chairman of IDTechEx market research company : “Years ago I pointed out that the 100 or so manufacturers of car- like specialist electric vehicles should not design every one from scratch but have a common platform. They make no attempt to standardise. The industry is ridiculously fragmented. Altreonic’s KURT vehicle is one of the first that has the potential to overcome this uneconomic fragmentation”.

Dr. Bodo Schwieger from Team Red (an international consultancy firm on mobility and transport), stated in an interview: “Amongst the mobility solutions of 150 providers we evaluated, the modularity of the KURT concept is unique”.

(src: private communication April 2016).