Sunday, July 13, 2014, 8:30am to 6:30pm
Room 213 (room location corrected!), Wheeler Hall, Berkeley Campus
Overview
The goal of this workshop is to explore the fast-changing topic of self-driving vehicles, from the perspectives of robotics research and policy. Led by the efforts of Google and many leading automobile manufacturers, interest in the field of self-driving vehicles has surged in the past several years. This workshop will solicit contributions in the core technologies of mobile robotics that underpin self-driving vehicles, including: sensors, localization, mapping, path-planning and control, and human-machine interfaces. We will also bring in policy experts to discuss some of the potential legal and economic impacts of this transformative technology.
Format:
The workshop will include: (1) invited talks from prominent researchers; (2) contributed talks addressing related topics in algorithms, systems, or policy; and (3) panel discussions with a number of experts in related fields.
Registration:
- Register at the RSS2014 webpage:
http://www.roboticsconference.org/registration.html
Draft Schedule: (subject to change)
8:30-8:40 — Welcome and Introduction (John Leonard and Jesse Levinson)
8:40-10:00 — Technology and Systems
- Edwin Olson, University of Michigan
http://april.eecs.umich.edu/people/ebolson/
Autonomous cars: safety and human factors - Jesse Levinson, Stanford University
http://driving.stanford.edu/papers.html
Automatic laser calibration, mapping, and localization for autonomous vehicles - David Hall, Velodyne
http://velodyne.com/about/management-team
Lidar sensors for autonomous vehicles - Philipp Robbel
Robert Bosch LLC, Research and Technology Center
Automated Driving to Market – Key Challenges
10:00-10:20 — Coffee Break
10:20-10:40 — Mobility-on-demand System Analysis
- Emilio Frazzoli (MIT) and Marco Pavone (Stanford)
http://ares.lids.mit.edu/
http://www.stanford.edu/~pavone//
The Value of Robotic Mobility-On-Demand Systems.
10:40-12:00 — Panel on Economic Impacts
- Frank Levy, MIT Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning (Moderator)
http://dusp.mit.edu/faculty/frank-levy - Susan Shaheen, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley
http://www.ce.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/shaheen?destination=people%2Ffaculty%2Fshaheen - Ken Laberteaux, Toyota Research Institute, North America
http://www.laberteaux.org/ - Dan Fagnant, UT Austin
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/dan-fagnant/53/867/782
12:00-3:00 — Extended Lunch Break
(Note: A three-hour lunch break has been requested by the RSS2014 organizers to allow participants to watch the world cup final)
3:00-3:30 — Contributed technical presentations on Navigation and Mapping
- Sheng Zhao, Yiming Chen, and Jay Farrell (University of California, Riverside)
High Precision 6DOF Vehicle Navigation in Urban Environments using a Low-cost Single-frequency GPS Receiver - Matthew Cornick, Jeffrey Koechling, and Byron Stanley (Lincoln Laboratory)
Localizing Ground Penetrating RADAR. - Avdhut Joshi and Michael R. James (Toyota Research Institute, North America)
High-fidelity Street Maps with Multi-Component Tracking and Coarse Structural Priors.
3:30-4:40 — Legal and Safety Aspects
- Bryant Walker Smith, Stanford University
https://www.law.stanford.edu/profile/bryant-walker-smith
Legal aspects of increasing vehicle automation - Jonathan How, MIT
http://www.mit.edu/people/jhow/
Safety verification for self-driving vehicles - Eric Feron, Georgia Tech
http://www.feron.org/Eric/
Verification and validation for autonomous systems
4:40-5:00 — Coffee Break
5:00-6:15 — Panel on Future Outlook and Policy Implications
- Jane Lappin, US Department of Transportation (moderator)
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/jane-lappin/12/b5/b89
- Steve Shladover, UC Berkeley
http://path.berkeley.edu/steven-shladover - Raj Rajkumar, Carnegie Mellon University
http://users.ece.cmu.edu/~raj/ - Brad Templeton
http://robocars.com
6:15-6:30 — Wrap-up Discussion
Contact information:
John J. Leonard
Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and CSAIL
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
jleonard@mit.edu