Event

We are pleased to host the project team of Dream4cars during their visit in Sweden. You are invited to a workshop about driver modelling with external speakers from the project.

Dreams4Cars is about "The Driving Agent" - the complex system comprising of software and sensors that aims to take over the control of the automated vehicle. The project aims to enable the driving agent to deal with difficult and rare road circumstances.Dreams4Cars will set up an offline simulation mechanism in which robots by recombining aspects of real-world experience, can produce an emulated world, with which they can collectively interact to safely develop and improve their Perception-Action systems, in particular focusing on the analysis of rare events.

Read more about Dream4cars here: http://www.dreams4cars.eu/en/

Agenda
8:00 – 8:30 Introduction about QUADRAE project Giulio Piccinini (Chalmers)
8:30 – 9:00 Predictive processing framework for modelling driver’s behavior in automated driving Jonas Bärgman (Chalmers)
9:00 – 9:30 Preliminary results about modelling driver’s behavior as a function of kinematic criticality and automation level Giulio Piccinini and Esko Lehtonen (Chalmers)
9:30 – 10:00 Break 
10:00 – 10:30 Driver models in safety benefit simulations Fredrik Granum (Volvo Cars)
10:30 – 12:00 Artificial Cognitive System Architectures for long-term reliable automated driving Mauro Da Lio (University of Trento)
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch 
13:00 – 13:30 Active discovery of threatening situations by dream-like simulations Henrik Svensson (University of Skövde)
13:30 – 14:00 Behaviour optimisation and generation of training examples with offline Optimal Control Francesco Biral (University of Trento)
14:00 – 14:30 OpenDS environment for simulations and dreaming Rafael Math (DFKI)
14:30 – 15:30 Open discussion 

Sign up
Sign up at the link below no later than January 23, 2018. You can also attend the event via Skype (you do not have to sign up if use Skype, just click the link below)

Information about the speakers

Mauro da Lio
Mauro Da Lio is professor of Mechanical systems with the University of Trento. His research interests span from vehicle dynamics to driver modelling, from driver assistance systems to automated driving, from modelling of human sensorimotor control to artificial cognitive systems and robotics. He has been involved in several EU framework programmes 6, 7, 8 in the Intelligent Vehicles domain. He is currently the coordinator of the H2020 “Dreams4Cars” research and innovation action (http://www.dreams4cars.eu).

Henrik Svensson
Henrik Svensson is Associate Senior Lecturer at the School of Informatics at the University of Skövde. He received his BSs degree (2001) in cognitive science and MSc degree (2002) in computer science from the University of Skövde, and PhD degree (2013) from the Univeristy of Linköping. His research interests include cognitive robotics, human-robot interaction, situated and embodied cognition theories, in particular so called simulation/emulation theories. He is also coordinator of the bachelor’s programme in User Experience Design at the University of Skövde.

Francesco Biral
Italian-born Francesco Biral studied Mechanical Engineering at the University of Padova where he received the M.Sc Degree in 1997. In 2000 he completed the Doctorate (PhD) in Applied Mechanics and moved to University of Trento as Post-doc student first and then as Assistant Professor. Since September 2012 he is Associate Professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering. Francesco Biral research interests include symbolic and numerical modelling and simulation of dynamical system (mainly motorcycles and ground vehicles) and efficient methods for real time solution of optimal control problems for driver/rider modelling, energy management and development of safety systems for intelligent vehicles. In this field he was involved in many European Research Projects such as FP6 PReVENT, FP7 interactIVe and FP7 AdaptIVe and he was coordinator for University of Trento of FP7 SAFERIDER Project on riding support systems for motorcyclists. He is currently involved in H2020 “Dreams4Cars” project (http://www.dreams4cars.eu) and scientific coordinator for University of Trento of H2020 SAFESTRIP Project (http://www.safestrip.eu).

Rafael Math
Rafael Math is a software engineer at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in Saarbrücken and the chief developer of OpenDS. He studied computer science at the Saarland University, where he received his master's degree, and joined the Automotive group at DFKI. He has been involved in various FP7 projects in the Intelligent Vehicles domain and is currently member of the consortium of the H2020 “Dreams4Cars” research and innovation action (http://www.dreams4cars.eu).

Location
The workshop will be held in room Blacken, at the 3rd floor of Saga building in Lindholmen campus. For direction, please check this link.

Welcome!