A device for measuring the geometry of a wheel axle of a motor vehicle comprising a wheel hub support for defined positioning of a wheel hub of the wheel axle. The wheel hub support comprises a wheel hub dome formed correspondingly to an outer side of the wheel hub and encompassing the wheel hub dome in a precise fit.

In order to provide a checking facility for checking workpieces and also a treatment facility for treating workpieces, which enable efficient and reliable quality optimisation, it is proposed that workpiece parameters are detected, for example by means of an automatic checking station, and a workpiece-specific data set is created on this basis and/or from facility parameters.

A device for measuring a gap and a step between two panels is disclosed. The device includes a laser radiating unit for emitting laser beam over a first panel and a second panel and in a first linear pattern across a gap between a first panel and a second panel. The device further includes a lighting unit for emitting a non-laser light beam over a first panel and a second panel and in a second linear pattern overlapping the first pattern across the gap between the first and the second panel. The system further comprises a camera for capturing images of the first linear pattern of laser and the second linear pattern of non-laser light projected over the first panel and the second panel. The system analyzes at least one image captured from the camera and estimates a width of the gap between the first and second panels.

The present disclosure provides a system and method for vehicle inspection. The system for vehicle inspection installed on an inspection line to inspect an assembled vehicle may include: a wireless terminal connected to the vehicle and configured to externally transmit vehicle state information; an antenna arranged on the inspection line and configured to relay wireless communication of the wireless terminal; a camera arranged upwardly along the inspection line and configured to transmit image information of a photographed vehicle; and a server configured to set a coordinates system and a reference driving line on the inspection line, generate drive control information based on the image information and the vehicle state information such that the vehicle moves along the reference driving line, and transmit the drive control information to the wireless terminal.

A vehicle body flaw elimination method using a virtual mark, includes: detecting, by a robotic visioner, a flaw formed on a vehicle body surface and outputting corresponding flaw data; forming, by a controller, a virtual marker corresponding to the flaw data on a 3D model corresponding to the vehicle body; transmitting, by the controller, data of the 3D model on which the virtual marker is formed to a wearable device; and detecting, by the controller, a position of the vehicle body and a position of the wearable device to identify the position of the vehicle body and a position of a worker wearing the wearable device, and modifying the 3D model of the wearable device in a direction in which the worker views the vehicle body.

A glass roof system includes a first glass layer, a photovoltaic module, a switching film powered by the photovoltaic module, and a control module configured to selectively control the switching film based on a passenger cabin temperature.

Methods and apparatus are provided for attaching a first device to a second device. The method includes providing an attachment structure for attaching the first device to the second device that includes a fastener that is movable from a first position to a second position within the attachment structure, moving the first device into position to be attached to the second device with the fastener in the first position, obscuring an attachment detection window with a window barrier fixed to the fastener, securing the first device to the second device by sliding the fastener from the first position to the second position, locking the fastener in the second position, revealing the attachment detection window when the fastener is locked in the second position, and reading the attachment detection window to detect that the first device has been properly attached to the second device.

A method of manufacturing a modular vehicle subassembly (MVS) includes assembling a propulsion system onto a vehicle frame, assembling a suspension system onto the vehicle frame, assembling a steering system and braking system onto the vehicle frame, assembling an electrical distribution system onto the vehicle frame, and integrating an onboard controller with the propulsion system, the steering system, and the braking system. The onboard controller is configured to command the propulsion system, the steering system, and the braking system such that the MVS is operable to move untethered through a top hat assembly line during assembly of a top hat on the MVS.

The disclosure relates to a diagnostic system for verifying functionality and performing mapping of a wireless sensor in/on a wheel of a heavy-duty vehicle on an assembly line (100), the system including: an assembly-line tool provided along the assembly line, each tool comprising one or more antenna systems arranged to interrogate a wireless sensor integrated into/on a wheel of the vehicle, each tool is arranged in use to: automatically locate on the vehicle and verify a function of the sensor; and interrogate the sensor to perform a wireless sensor reading; and pair sensor reading data with a tire identifier, pair sensor reading data with a vehicle chassis ID, wherein the diagnostic system maps the sensor using sensor readings and provides mapping information for the sensor to a gateway/receiver of an electronic control unit of the vehicle.

The present disclosure provides a vehicle-carried inspection system, including a radiation source and a detector, the radiation source and the detector being arranged to form an inspection passage. The inspection system further includes a controller configured to control the radiation source so that a first dose of radiation which is safe to a driver is radiated from the radiation source when the driver's cab of the inspected vehicle passes through a ray beam, and control the radiation source so that the dose of radiation of the radiation source becomes a working dose of radiation larger than the first dose of radiation when the other subsequent portions of the inspected vehicle pass through the ray beam.