[Colloquium] Talks at TTIC: Christoph Stiller, KIT

[Liv Leader]

Reminder:

When:      Monday, February 11th @ 2 p.m.

Where:     TTIC, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue, Room #526

Who:       Christoph Stiller, KIT

Title:       Towards Swarms of Self-Driving Automobiles

This presentation focuses on key technologies for automobiles that perceive
their environment and based on this knowledge automatically navigate
through everyday traffic in an autonomous and cooperative manner. Methods
for 3D machine perception based on lidar, radar, and video sensors are
outlined. The possible contribution of prior knowledge from digital maps is
elaborated. Beyond classical metrology the recognition and basic
understanding of situations must be accomplished for automated
decision-making and trajectory planning. When multiple self-driving
automobiles are present they are able to communicate their plans and
mutually negotiate their trajectories. Inspired by biological swarms it is
shown that a coordinated and homogenized traffic flow can be achieved
through cooperative yet distributed planning. Results from autonomous
vehicles are shown in real world urban and platooning scenarios including
AnnieWAY the recent winner of the Grand Cooperative Driving Challenge.

www.mrt.kit.edu



Biography

Christoph Stiller studied Electrical Engineering in Aachen, Germany and
Trondheim, Norway, and received the Diploma degree and the Dr.-Ing. degree
(Ph.D.) from Aachen University of Technology in 1988 and 1994,
respectively. He worked with INRS-Telecommunications in Montreal, Canada
for a post-doctoral year as Member of the Scientific Staff in 1994/1995.
In 1995 he joined the Corporate Research and Advanced Development of Robert
Bosch GmbH, Germany.  In 2001 he became chaired professor and director of
the Institute for Measurement and Control Systems at Karlsruhe Institute of
Technology, Germany.

Dr. Stiller serves as President of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation
Systems Society (2012-2013), Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on
Intelligent Transportation Systems (2004-ongoing), IEEE Transactions on
Image Processing (1999-2003) and for ther IEEE Intelligent Transportation
Systems Magazine (2012-ongoing). He has served as Editor-in-Chief of the
IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine (2009-2011). He has been
program chair of the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium 2004 in Italy and
General Chair of the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium 2011 in Germany.
His autonomous driving team AnnieWAY has been finalist in the Darpa Urban
Challenge 2007 and winner of the Grand Cooperative Driving Challenge in
2011.


Host: Raquel Urtasun

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