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Karl Henrik Johansson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Technologies Towards Automated Vehicles
Christoph Stiller, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
Smart Shipping and Logistics: Perspectives & Challenges
Rudy R. Negenborn, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Keynote Lecture
Karl Henrik Johansson
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Sweden
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Brief Bio
Karl H. Johansson is Professor with the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden and Director of Digital Futures. He received MSc degree in Electrical Engineering and PhD in Automatic Control from Lund University. He has held visiting positions at UC Berkeley, Caltech, NTU, HKUST Institute of Advanced Studies, and NTNU. His research interests are in networked control systems and cyber-physical systems with applications in transportation, energy, and automation networks. He is President of the European Control Association and member of the IFAC Council, and has served on the IEEE Control Systems Society Board of Governors and the Swedish Scientific Council for Natural Sciences and Engineering Sciences. He has received several best paper awards and other distinctions from IEEE, IFAC, and ACM. He has been awarded Swedish Research Council Distinguished Professor, Wallenberg Scholar with the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, Future Research Leader Award from the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research, the triennial IFAC Young Author Prize, and IEEE Control Systems Society Distinguished Lecturer. He is Fellow of the IEEE and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.
Technologies Towards Automated Vehicles
Christoph Stiller
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Germany
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Brief Bio
Christoph Stiller studied Electrical Engineering in Aachen, Germany and Trondheim, Norway, and received the Diploma degree and the Dr.-Ing. degree (Ph.D.) from Aachen University of Technology in 1988 and 1994, respectively. He worked with INRS-Telecommunications in Montreal, Canada for a post-doctoral year in 1994/1995 and with Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany from 1995 - 2001. In 2001 he became Chaired Professor and Director of the Institute for Measurement and Control Systems at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany.
Dr. Stiller is Fellow of the IEEE and serves as Chair of the Technical Committee for Self Driving Automobiles. He has been inaugurating Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine (2009-2011) and has been Associate Editor thereafter. His automated driving team AnnieWAY has been finalist in the Darpa Urban Challenge 2007 as well as first and second winner of the Grand Cooperative Driving Challenge in 2011 and 2016, respectively. He has served is several positions for the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society including being its President 2012-2013.
Abstract
Vehicle automation is among the most fascinating trends in automotive electronics and a huge challenge to the Intelligent Transportation Systems community. This talk with discuss the state-of-the-art and a potential evolution of automated vehicles. We discuss lessons learned from the autonomous Bertha Benz memorial tour from Mannheim to Pforzheim.
We investigate probabilistic and deep learning approaches to perception and planning methods for automated vehicles and elaborate on the potential and cooperative driving. Beyond the fascinating progress that we have witnessed in the past decades, the remaining challenges for achieving full autonomy for self-driving cars still require substantial research. Reliable perception, provable behavioral safety and safety validation are prominent examples for these. Furthermore, fail-safe requirement lead to novel vehicle architectures. Technical supervision and teleoperation may lower the hurdles for deployment. Last, not least, a societal consensus on an acceptable risk level is required and compliance with this consensus must be tracked in empirical safety analysis.
Smart Shipping and Logistics: Perspectives & Challenges
Rudy R. Negenborn
Delft University of Technology
Netherlands
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Brief Bio
Prof.dr. Rudy Negenborn is full professor in Multi-Machine Operations & Logistics at Delft University of Technology. He is head of the Section Transport Engineering & Logistics, and leads the Researchlab Autonomous Shipping (RAS). His research interests include automatic control and coordination of transport technology, with a focus on smart shipping and smart logistics applications. With his team, he proposes multi-agent and model predictive control approaches that benefit from real-time information and communication potential. He has over 300 peer reviewed publications and leads NWO, EU and industry funded research, such as the Horizon 2020 program NOVIMOVE. Besides, he is editor of the books “Intelligent Infrastructures”, “Distributed Model Predictive Control Made Easy”, and “Transport of Water versus Transport over Water”. With the MSc track Multi-Machine Engineering at TUDelft, Negenborn connects scientific insights with education to prepare the next generation of MSc engineers for the grand challenges in the maritime and transport domain.
Abstract
To achieve sustainable and efficient transport, it is necessary to consider a more integrated perspective in which the operations of all modes of transport (road, rail, and water) are synchronized, across geographical scopes (from equipment to network level), and across time scales (from operational to strategic), while making optimal use of real-time information processing and coordination.
In this talk we zoom in on recent advances in the ports and waterborne transport area, starting from the equipment level. New designs and applications for land-based transport using autonomous ground vehicles (AGVs) inside port areas and surroundings will first be presented. Then, we will shift focus towards the waterborne side, specifically addressing the growing interest in autonomous ships. We here highlight six open research gaps and discuss challenges and solution directions from an individual ship perspective, as well as from the perspective of multi-vessel systems with ship-2-ship and ship-2-infrastructure interaction.
We then make the link back the transport domain, presenting the approach taken by the European H2020 program NOVIMOVE. This program aims at solving inefficiencies specifically on the IWT Rhine-Alpine corridor via “condensing” of the logistics system by improving container load factors, by reducing waiting times in seaports, by improved river voyage planning and execution, and by facilitating smooth passages through bridges and locks. This can, with the right stakeholder involvement, ultimately lead to better aligned and sustainable operations, and improved use of transport capacity.