With the start of ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle Technology Expo in Stuttgart, Germany, now just a few weeks away (June 4, 5 & 6, 2024), AAVI shares some of the presentations it is most looking forward to at this year’s conference (rates apply). It’s not too late to reserve your place, with a 30% discount available to OEMs.
Deploying autonomous vehicles – Holo’s experience
Holo is currently the driving force behind one of the leading autonomous projects in Europe: the deployment of vehicles using Mobileye’s autonomous software in the Grorud area in Oslo, Norway. The company says it has deployed more autonomous projects in Scandinavia than any other company, so delegates will be able to benefit from some unique insights from real-world applications, including how best to cope with Northern Europe’s winter weather. You can read more about the Grorud deployment in an exclusive feature just published in the April 2024 issue.
Agile scenario alteration: a framework to accelerate automated vehicle testing
Nils Katzorke, project coordinator at Mercedes-Benz, will discuss how physical and digital test drives relate to each other and the potential benefits of cyber-physical test procedures. He will also highlight the crucial environmental conditions currently not available in standardized digital or physical simulation methods. Examples from the research projects for test infrastructure development at the Mercedes-Benz Test and Technology Center in Immendingen will also be provided for context. An experienced presenter, Nils first spoke at the ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle Technology Expo conference in California in 2022, where he revealed the company’s approach to proving ground testing in the context of automated vehicles.
Bridging scale and differentiation in autonomous driving
This presentation by Mobileye’s VP of business development, Nimrod Brickman, will discuss the complexities of designing for differentiation in hands-off driving and remaining challenges on the path from development to commercialization. Nimrod will discuss the paradigm shift that Mobileye DXP is fueling by enabling auto makers to retain control of the driver experience through a new programming language that strategically splits the stack into universal and unique components. AAVI recently spoke to Mobileye about its True Redundancy technology, as part of a wider feature on the latest trends and developments in sensors, in our April 2024 issue. Nimrod is well placed to comment on the key considerations regarding the essential criteria for designing verifiably safe self-driving systems that can meet market demands.
Moving from ADAS to HDAS – humanized driver assistance systems
Raunaq Bose, CTO of Humanising Autonomy, will ask why ADAS and AV technologies have so far had limited success in areas with high numbers of vulnerable road users (VRUs) such as pedestrians and cyclists. He will argue that the current approach is much too focused on the ‘physics’ of the situation (relative distances, velocities and accelerations of VRUs), which does not reflect the reality of interactions and negotiations between vehicles and VRUs. In a recent article on how to improve the situation for other road users, AAVI spoke to Raunaq and other expert sources about how best to develop ADAS and AV technologies that are more intuitive and able to communicate their intent to other road users. We’re looking forward to a lively debate around what is a very important subject with multiple challenges.
Power to the people: democratizing safety for automated driving
Scenario databases have been discussed by the automated vehicle ecosystem for a long time. Most scenario databases cater to the AV test industry only, with scenarios stored in programmatic languages. The recent incidents (crashes and recalls) associated with AV deployment have shown that the wider public is an important stakeholder left out of the AV safety discussion. This presentation will be led by Prof. Siddartha Khastgir, head of verification and validation for intelligent vehicles at WMG, University of Warwick in the UK, who will introduce a novel publicly accessible online platform that enables any member of the public or the AV ecosystem to create a scenario using a graphical interface, which he describes as being similar to “a LEGO-making exercise for scenarios”. The aim of this open online platform tool – Safety Pool Studio – is to enable various stakeholders like the general public, road safety advocacy groups, accident investigators, local authorities and insurance companies to describe scenarios for their purposes. Siddartha is a key advocate for improving understanding around autonomous driving. You can read more about his views on how to build public trust in autonomous vehicles in this exclusive interview.
With presentations from over 80 expert speakers from organizations including Volvo, BMW, Stellantis, ASAM, Audi and Wayve, this year’s ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle Technology Expo Europe conference is one of the year’s best educational and networking opportunities. See the full program and speaker list and register for your conference pass (rates apply) now, to secure your place.
