L3Pilot Summer School 2020

Virtual

The L3Pilot Summer School for the Automated Driving implementation and Testing was successful!

Thank you all for joining!

The L3Pilot Summer School 2020 was held virtually on Wednesday 9 and Thursday 10 September with a fully booked attendance of more than 240 participants from 33 countries around the world.

Prominent speakers from academia and industry, both internal and external to the L3Pilot consortium, as well as key experts from other European projects and international initiatives in the field of Automated Driving (AD) have honored the event with their presence. The two day- event was full of intriguing presentations and constructive discussions covering the area of Automated Driving Testing and Implementation. The main challenges in the areas of AD technology were thoroughly discussed and supported by the AD community, PhD researchers, and SMEs who participated worldwide.

The event also provided the ground for 11 senior and junior researchers and PhD students to present their scientific work through a dedicated Poster Pitches Session while 3 more researchers submitted with success their posters, available in the Poster Pitches Section below.

The L3Pilot Summer School in numbers:

• 246 registrants
• More than 140 questions and comments posted by the audience
• 36 Poster Pitches poll participants
• 20 lectures from experienced in their field speakers
• 6 Tutorial sessions focused on the key areas of: “Intro/AD key aspects/L3Pilot code of Practice/SAE L3 AD Public testing admission procedures”, “Human factors in focus”, “The road and infrastructure as an AD enabler”, “Security and Privacy concerns”, “Testing and validation framework” and “Data magic or Data into scenarios?”
• 14 posters submitted and 11 Poster Pitches

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VIEW THE AGENDA

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In case you missed our online event, you can watch it in the following videos.

L3Pilot Summer School 2020 Day 1

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L3Pilot Summer School 2020 Day 2

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Speakers Presentations of the 1^st Day 

“Tutorial A: Setting the scene”

Moderator:
Yves Page, Project Leader on Automated Driving Experiments, RENAULT, France

Speakers:

• L3Pilot introduction – Aria Etemad, Senior Project Manager, Volkswagen Group Innovation, Germany
• Automated Driving L3 and beyond – the key aspects – Angelos Amditis, Research Director, Institute of Communication and Computer Systems, Greece
• Towards a Code of Practice for Automated Driving – Stefan Wolter, Senior Researcher, Human-Centered Technologies, Ford, Germany
• Admission procedures for testing on public roads in the Netherlands – Pieter van der Stoep, Account Manager, Automated and Connected Driving, Applied Innovation and Exemptions Unit, the Netherlands Vehicle Authority (RDW), the Netherlands

Tutorial A discussions

“Tutorial B: Human factors in focus”

Moderator:
Natasha Merat, Chair in Human Factors of Transport Systems, Leader, Human Factors and Safety Group, Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds, UK

Speakers:

• Human, what human? – Oliver Carsten, Professor of Transport Safety, Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds, UK
• Transition between AD Levels – Alexander Eriksson, Senior Design Engineer (AD Human Factors/UX), Volvo Car Corporation, Sweden
• Transition from automated to manual driving: What factors influence take-over time and performance?– Marieke Martens, Director of Science, TNO Traffic & Transport, Professor, Automated Driving & Human Interaction, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
• Designing interaction of automated vehicles for mixed traffic environment: Development, integration and evaluation of the interACT system – Fabio Tango, Senior Researcher, Centro Ricerche Fiat, AD/ ADAS Innovation, Italy

Tutorial B discussions

“Tutorial C: The road and infrastructure as an AD enabler”

Moderator:
Tom Michael Gasser, Head of Section “Automated Driving”, BASt, Germany

Speakers:

• Intelligent Road and Infrastructure data for automated driving – Dominique Gruyer, Research Director, University Gustave Eiffel, Deputy Director, COSYS department for CAV researches, Research Director, PICS-L lab, France
• Case for Connected Autonomy and Implications for 5G Systems – Mehrdad Dianati, Professor, Warwick Manufacturing Group, University of Warwick, UK
• Enabling automation for Heavy Duty Vehicles (What the key aspects are) – Marc-Michael Meinecke, Senior Researcher, Volkswagen Group Innovation, Lecturer, Ostfalia University Wolfsburg, Germany

Tutorial C discussions

“Tutorial D: Security and Privacy concerns”

Moderator:
Mehrdad Dianati, Professor, Warwick Manufacturing Group, University of Warwick, UK

Speakers:

• Data Privacy for Automation: Leveraging Privacy Enhancing Technologies – Jesus Diaz Vico, Postdoctoral Researcher, IBM Research Division, Switzerland
• Cyber-Security for Automation: The Challenge – Jonathan Petit, Director, Qualcomm, USA

Tutorial D discussions

Speakers Presentations of the 2^nd Day 

“Tutorial E: Testing and validation framework”

Moderator:
Johannes Hiller, Group Leader Data & Intelligent Infrastructure, Institute for Automotive Engineering, Aachen, Germany

Speakers:

• Testing framework for Automated Driving – Adrian Zlocki, Senior Manager Driver Assistance, Forschungsgesellschaft Kraftfahrwesen mbH Aachen, Germany
• Testing of CAD and its Key Enabling Technologies – Álvaro Arrúe, Project Manager Connected and Automated Driving, Applus IDIADA, Spain
• Towards a robust verification methodology for ADS – James McCallion, Senior Engineer, Connected Autonomous Vehicles, Horiba Mira (VeriCAV project), UK
• Wizard of Oz design for testing automated driving on public roads – Thomas Streubel, Postdoctoral Researcher, Division of Vehicle Safety, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

Tutorial E discussions

“Tutorial F: Data magic or Data into scenarios?”

Moderator:

Anastasia Bolovinou, Research engineer, Intelligent Transport Systems, Institute of Communication and Computer Systems, Greece

Speakers:

• Deep neural network based simulations for next generation of AD virtual testing – Heikki Laine, VP of Product and Marketing, Cognata, Israel
• Multisensor Large Scale Data Management for training sets and ground truth automatic generation – Marcos Nieto, Principal Investigator on ITS and Engineering, Vicomtech, Spain
• Validation of automated driving systems using scenario-based massive simulations – Alexandru Forrai, Fellow Engineer and Consultant, Siemens Digital Industries Software, The Netherlands

Posters Pitches Session

The poster entitled “The Prediction of Pedestrian Behavior from LiDAR Data” was awarded as the best according to the audience votes during the Poster Pitches Session. Congratulations to the authors:

• Chi Zhang (University of Gothenburg)
• Christian Berger (University of Gothenburg)
• Marco Dozza (Chalmers University of Technology)

Click here to read the poster!

Poster Pitches Session discussions

Posters

The submitted posters to the L3Pilot Summer School 2020 are available here.

Stay tuned for the recording of the event which will be available shortly.