Past events

Welcome to the SAFER Thursday seminar on Sep 5 at 11.30-12.30! This the first seminar for the autumn 2019! The Functional Safety Standard ISO 26262 – Today, for SAFER and Tomorrow Speaker: Dr Per Johannessen, Functional Safety Expert, Combitech The functional safety standard for the automotive industry, ISO 26262, has been around since early 2000 and has changed the automotive

SAFER invites to a whole day seminar on the latest research on child occupant protection.

Invitation to course: Independent Safety Assessment and ISO 26262 Process Auditing We are pleased to offer our SAFER partners an advanced course in ISO26262 during the autumn. This standard is relevant to many of you! The aim of this course is to provide delegates with the ability to plan, conduct and report independent safety assessments and safety audits according to

Welcome to the third Research area day for 2019!

SAFER related researcher Dr. Giulio Bianchi Piccinini will give his Docent lecture "Understanding and modelling human behaviour during driving" on August 23, 2019.

Welcome to a SAFER seminar with Shannon Roberts: Human Factors in Driving (Automation Systems) Shannon Roberts, University of Massachusetts Amherst is visiting SAFER in August and our partners are most welcome to meet her and take part in the seminar Human Factors in Driving (Automation Systems). Prof. Marco Dozza is hosting the seminar. Read more about Shannon's research here: https://people.umass.edu/scroberts/

SAFER’s competence area Vehicle dynamics has been honoured to arrange the 26th IAVSD International Symposium on Dynamics of Vehicles on Roads and Tracks.

Welcome to Jonas Östh's Docent Lecture "Bottom Up and Top Down: Developing and Applying Human Body Models for Safer Cars"! Bio and Abstract: Jonas Östh is working with frontal crash occupant safety analysis at the Volvo Cars Safety Centre. He has a Ph.D. from the School of Machine and Vehicle Systems since 2014 and a background as a researcher and

The H2020 Dreams4Cars research project (a Research and Innovation Action funded under the EU Robotics banner) deals with the architecture, and the abilities, of agents that should be capable of learning reliable driving and natural human-robot interactions.

Welcome to a SAFER seminar - in cooperation with Halmstad Unversity and Future Mobility Center A highly topical seminar on the intersection of AI and digital service innovation. Specially targeted towards the community of Future Mobility Center (by invitation). Speaker: Pontus Wärnestål, Associate Professor at Halmstad University and Director of Service Design at inUse. Time and location: June 10 at

Welcome to Master thesis days at SAFER, June 10-11, 2019!

Welcome to a SAFER seminar with Dr. Pin Wang, California PATH at UC Berkeley, about Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Driving Dr. Pin Wang, researcher at California PATH, UC Berkeley, is visiting Chalmers and for two months, from mid-April to mid-June. Her research focus is on autonomous driving with machine learning algorithms, e.g. driving maneuver with reinforcement learning and inverse reinforcement

The purpose of the meeting is discuss and initiate project ideas in the context of our roadmap for the Research Area Human Body Protection (HBP) within SAFER. Please note that this meeting is for Reference group members at SAFER only! Agenda: 12:00 – 12:15 Intro, presentation, expectations Lotta Jakobsson 12:15 – 13:30 Short inspiration presentations (titles are tentative!) An example

Did you miss the Swedish Transport Administation's result conference in Stockholm in April? Then we can offer you a shorter version of the event and insights in the current status of Sweden's progress towards zero fatalaties and injuries in traffic on May 23. Matteo Rizzi, road safety analyst, Swedish Transport Administration and member of SAFER's management will present and answer

Welcome to a SAFER Thursday seminar on May 9, 2019 at 11.30-12.30! This week’s seminar is on the SAFER-flagship theme “Virtual Human Safety Models” and chaired by Lotta Jakobsson, Research Area Director Human Body Protection. SAFER-flagships serve the purpose to showcase and create future success stories to address one or several challenges related to ”Safe transport from door to door”

Welcome to celebrate SAFER’s end of Stage 4 and start of Stage 5! We invite you to a lunch party with mingle, food, presentations and snapshots of SAFER's impact and achievements during the last three years of research and collaboration. PROGRAM 11:30 Doors open 11:30-11:45 Mingle & welcome drinks 11:45 Speeches 12:00-13:30 Snapshot presentations of SAFER’s projects, the benefits to

Welcome to the second Research area day for 2019!

Sending a truck and a boat to the moon Ola Benderius is an assistant professor at the Division of Vehicle engineering and autonomous systems (VEAS). His academic background is in Complex adaptive systems (MSc), Machine and vehicle systems (PhD), and Autonomous machines. His present research interests are focusing on bio-inspired autonomous behaviour, bio-inspired perception, and cyberphysical systems. The research is

On Wednesday 27 March Lars Hammarstrand will hold a lecture in connection with his promotion to the academic title Oavlönad docent at the department. His lecture is titled "Where am I? - An existential question for a self-driving vehicle?".

Alberto Morando will defend his thesis "Drivers' response to attentional demand in automated driving" on March 21, 2019. Alberto is a PhD student at Chalmers, Mechanics and Maritime Sciences, Vehicle Safety. The opponent is Prof. John Lee from University of Wisconsin. A light lunch will be served after the defense. If you want to join the lunch, please let Sonja