Agenda

The workshop will be a half-day program and held on June 4, 2023, in conjunction with the 2023 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV23). It will be an interactive workshop with a mixture of invited keynotes, regular paper poster presentations, and discussion rounds. The current workshop program agenda is as follows:

●        13:40 – 13:50 Opening: Workshop aim & agenda [10 min]

●      13:50 – 14:05 Short round introduction, each indicating their professional background, interests, and organization/institute [15-20 min]

●        14:10 – 16:30 Three keynote speakers presentation, 30 min for each speaker

• 14:10 – 14:40 [30 min] 1st Keynote, 20 min presentation, 10 min for Q&A

Javier Alonso Mora, Associate Professor, Autonomous Multi-Robots Laboratory, TU Delft

Topic: Motion Planning Among Decision-Making Agents

• 14:40 – 15:10 [30 min] 2nd Keynote, 20 min presentation, 10 min for Q&A

Chris Ostafew, Senior Manager, Autonomous Systems team, Nissan Alliance Innovation Lab Silicon Valley

Topic: Proactive Risk Mitigation for Automated Vehicles

• 15:10 – 15:30 Coffee break with free discussion

• 15:30 – 16:00 [30 min] 3rd Keynote, 20 min presentation, 10 min for Q&A

Jonathan Sprinkle, Professor of Computer Science at Vanderbilt University, Co-Principal Investigator of CIRCLES

Topic: Research-Quality Controllers Made from Commercial Vehicles

• 16:00 – 16:30 [30 min] 4th Keynote, 20 min presentation, 10 min for Q&A

Sandip Aine, Principal Engineer & Team Leader, Motional: Driverless Technology and Autonomous Vehicles

Topic: Uncertainty and Interactions: Frontiers of Planning in Automated Vehicle Space

●        16:30 – 17:10 Roundtable discussion with live interaction [40 min] 

• Discussion panel with predefined topics and selected questions from the audience.

• After the roundtable discussion: all the participants can screen out the top 3 most important research needs.

●        17:10 – 17:40 Brainstorm session: [30 min] 

Participants brainstorm and discuss the following in groups:

• Terminology (common language)

• Per research needs: 

  • Use case

  • Data

  • Methods

  • Ethics

 Summary and short pitch presentation from each group

●        17:40 – 17:45 Closing and wrap up [5 min]

●      Participants can discuss with each other before or after the workshop schedule, or during the coffee sessions.