The Schedule

Walk-in lunch, Welcome and Introduction

Chris van der Ploeg, TNO, The Netherlands

Chris van der Ploeg received the B.Sc. degree in mechanical engineering and the M.Sc. degree (cum laude) in systems and control from Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, in 2016 and 2018, respectively. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in fault detection, isolation, and mitigation toward safe (cooperative) automated driving with the Mechanical Engineering Department, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Since 2019, he has been a Research Scientist with the Integrated Vehicle Safety Department, Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), Helmond. His current research interests include fault diagnosis methods, fault mitigation strategies/methods, and risk-averse motion planning for connected and cooperative vehicles 

Erik Frisk, Linköping University, Sweden

Erik Frisk was born in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1971. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Linköping University, Linkping, Sweden, in 2001. He is currently a Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Linköping University. His main research interests include optimization techniques for autonomous vehicles in complex traffic scenarios and model and data-driven fault diagnostics and prognostics. 

Vincent Abadie, Stellantis, France

Vincent Abadie, based in Paris, France, is currently a Director and Senior Fellow ADAS and Autonomous Driving at Stellantis. He graduated from the “Ecole Centrale” engineering School and holds a PhD in Control Design and Computer Science delivered in 1994. He joined PSA (Stellantis) as an engineer in charge of controlled chassis systems. He took the position of global chassis control project manager from 2001 to 2006 and then took responsibility for defining the technological strategy for controlled chassis systems and ADAS. • Since 2009, he is the Senior-Expert for ADAS and Autonomous Driving for PSA Group and since 2021 for Stellantis. He also represents Stellantis in several national and international working groups related to ADAS, Autonomous Driving and road safety.

Peter Werkhoven, TNO, The Netherlands

After a term as a member of the Executive Board TNO, Peter is now Chief Scientist at TNO. He is a physicist by training, has a PhD degree in psychophysics and is professor in Computer Science at Utrecht University in the fields of Augmented Reality and AI safety.

He also served on the NATO Research and Technology Board, the Board of the Topconsortium High Tech Systems and Materials, and the supervisory board of PhotonDelta. Currently, he serves  the Strategy Team of the National AI Coalition,  the Advisory Council on Science, Technology and Innovation (AWTI) and the board of Berenschot Beheer Foundation.

Coffee break

Andrei Terechko, NXP Semiconductors, The Netherlands

Andrei Terechko is a technical director at NXP Semiconductors. In his PhD research at TU/e he explored parallel processor architectures and compilers. Furthermore, Andrei worked for 27 years in consumer electronics and automotive industries. He is a co-author of 19 patents, 20+ international publications and many public presentations. Andrei is passionate about Vision Zero and focuses on innovations in functional safety and safety of the intended functionality.

Jana Tumova, KTH Royal Institute, Sweden

Jana Tumova is an associate professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. She received PhD in computer science from Masaryk University and was awarded ACCESS postdoctoral fellowship at KTH in 2013. She was also a visiting researcher at MIT, Boston University, and Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology. Her research interests include formal methods applied in decision making, motion planning, and control of autonomous systems. Among others, she is a recipient of a Swedish Research Council Starting Grant to explore compositional planning for multi-agent systems under temporal logic goals and a WASP Expeditions and WASP NEST projects focusing on design of correct-by-design and socially acceptable autonomous systems. She was awarded an Early Career Spotlight award at Robotics: Science and Systems 2021. 

Panel Discussion with:

Jeroen Ploeg

Jeroen Ploeg received the M.Sc. degree in mechanical engineering from Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, in 1988 and the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering on the control of vehicle platoons from Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in 2014. He is currently with Siemens, Helmond, The Netherlands, where he is a fellow scientist in the field of verification and validation of autonomous vehicles. From 2018 until 2022, he was with 2getthere (a company of ZF), Utrecht, The Netherlands, were he led the research and development activities in the field of cooperative automated driving for automated transit systems. From 2017 until 2022, he also held the position of part-time Associate Professor with the Mechanical Engineering Department, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, where his focus was on the connected and cooperative control of road vehicles. He was with TNO, Helmond, The Netherlands, from 1999 until 2017, ultimately as a Principal Scientist in the field of vehicle automation and road safety assessment. From 1989 to 1999, he was with Tata Steel, IJmuiden, The Netherlands, focusing on the development and implementation of dynamic process control systems for large-scale industrial plants. His research interests include control system design for connected, cooperative and automated vehicles, in particular string stability of vehicle platoons, the design of interaction protocols for complex driving scenarios, and motion control of wheeled mobile robots.

Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani

Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani is an associate professor at the Delft Center for Systems and Control, and a co-director of the Delft-AI Energy Lab at the Delft University of Technology. He joined TU Delft in October 2016 as an assistant professor. Prior to that, he held several research appointments at EPFL, ETH Zurich, and MIT between 2014 and 2016. He received the BSc and MSc degrees from Sharif University of Technology, Iran, and the PhD degree from ETH Zurich. He currently serves as an associate editor of Operations Research, Mathematical Programming, Transactions on Automatic Control, and Open Journal of Mathematical Optimization. He was one of the three finalists for the Young Researcher Prize in Continuous Optimization awarded by the Mathematical Optimization Society in 2016, and a recipient of the 2016 George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award from the IEEE Control Systems Society. He received the ERC Starting Grant and the INFORMS Frederick W. Lanchester Prize in 2020. He is the recipient of the 2022 European Control Award.

Guus Arts

Guus Arts is Project Manager for DAF’s innovative vehicle automation projects, in which he leads the way in the area of automated vehicle developments which also includes the publicly funded projects like Ensemble (multi-brand platooning), HelmUK (real-world platooning field trial), MAGPIE (port energy transition and yard automation), and MODI (physical & digital infrastructure requirements).

Guus received a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands and started his career at DAF in 2007.

DAF Trucks is a subsidiary of PACCAR Inc, a global technology company that designs and manufacturers light, medium and heavy-duty trucks. DAF provides a full range of tractor units and vocational trucks, offering the right vehicle for every transport application.

Bastiaan Krosse

Bastiaan Krosse holds a position as Research Manager of the department Integrated Vehicle Safety at TNO, the Netherlands. In this role he focusses on orchestrating the development of safety solutions and technologies, as well as (safety) assessment methodologies to accelerate the deployment of CCAM.  This with the purpose to contribute to ‘zero casualties’, ‘zero emissions’ and ‘zero loss’, supporting both industries and policymakers in the innovation and deployment process of CCAM systems. In his position as Research Manager, he is together with his team responsible for the strategic planning and execution of future research topics on national and international level. Next to his position as Research Manager, he has several active roles within the EU, such as in EARPA, ERTICO and the CCAM partnership.

Closing and Drinks