SAFER Seminar with John Lee: "Automated vehicle communication and cooperation with pedestrians and other road users"
Welcome to a SAFER seminar with Prof. John Lee!
We are honored with a visit by renowned researcher John D. Lee, Emerson Electric Professor at Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI on March 20 and you are welcome to share his knowledge at the seminar "Automated vehicle communication and cooperation with pedestrians and other road users". Our host at the seminar is Marco Dozza.
You can read more about Prof Lee on the link below.
Welcome!
ABSTRACT
Driverless vehicles promise to transform transportation and bring mobility to those who are disadvantaged by the current system. Achieving this promise depends on garnering the trust and acceptance of those who must share the road with these vehicles, particularly pedestrians. Pedestrians and drivers typically negotiate intersections smoothly, but automated vehicles may lack the skills to communicate their intentions. This presentation describes an observational study to identify the role of proxemics and kinesics in signaling pedestrians. We consider the implications of these mechanisms for safe, efficient, and fair intersection negotiation. To formalize these insights we created a dynamic model and used Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) to estimate the model parameters and their associated uncertainty. The model makes it possible to explore how characteristics of automated vehicle algorithms affect the safety, efficiency, and fairness of intersection negotiation. This model might ultimately help designers to tune algorithms to create polite and trusted automated vehicles.
