Event

The symposium "AstaZero Researchers Day" (http://goo.gl/Vlg9CM) will be held on October 14, 2015 on the proving ground AstaZero in Sweden (http://www.astazero.com). The symposium serves as a forum for researchers, experts, and practitioners to explore and discuss recent research results, challenges, and opportunities in the area of intelligent and safe vehicular systems.

Description
Nowadays, modern vehicles are powered by complex functions for comfort, safety, and even semi-autonomous driving. These functions range from lane-keeping assistants, over emergency braking guards, to piloted driving for traffic jam situations. In the future, more and more traffic situations will be even covered by cooperative and semi-autonomous functions to take over tedious scenarios for example.

However, the requirements specification, design, implementation, validation, and verification of such functions are becoming more and more complex. Thus, multiple disciplines like mechanical, electrical, and software engineering as well as competence from human factors and product design is required to tackle the upcoming challenges.

Call for presentations
For this symposium, we are inviting presentations from the various disciplines that are involved to design, realize, and test today’s and tomorrow’s vehicle functions. We are especially interested in the following topics:

• Autonomous driving
• Driver models
• Test scenarios
• Test design and test methods
• Design of test targets and future test equipment
• Novel test system infrastructure
• Test data analysis
• Simulation for testing, validation, verification of complex vehicle functions
• Methods for combining and aligning simulations and real test-runs
• Experience reports and field studies
• Certification and functional safety
• Tool support and simulation environments

Submission guidelines
We are looking for contributions to this symposium in the form of talks or posters. To contribute to this event, please submit an abstract (maximum 1 page) about the work that you would like to present to submissions at astazero dot com not later than September 13, 2015. The abstract needs to contain the following information:

• Title
• Authors and affiliations
• Summary (at least 0.5 page)
• Keywords

All submissions will be evaluated on the basis of quality and relevance. Accepted submissions will be invited to present either as a talk or poster at the symposium.

The accepted contributions for the symposium (abstract including presentation or poster) will be published after the symposium in a technical report.

* The shuttle bus will leave from the main entrance of Lindholmen Science Park (close to the taxi stop and bicycle parking). The stop at Chalmers Johanneberg will be outside the library at Gibraltargatan.

Registration
Your registration is welcome by email to leena.rosensten@sp.se no later than September 30, 2015. Please state your name, organization, email, diet food requests, and if you will use the shuttle bus service and from which stop.

Participation is free-of-charge but an administrative fee of 500 SEK will be charged if registration is made and a participant fails to show up without notice.

Organization committee
• Christian Berger, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, christian dot berger at gu dot se
• Jan Jacobson, SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden, Sweden, jan dot jacobson at sp dot se
• Peter Janevik, AstaZero AB, Sweden, peter dot janevik at astazero dot com