1st Hi-Drive SUMMER SCHOOL: Driving Towards Higher Automation

The inaugural Hi-Drive Summer School, co-organized by the ISENSE Group of ICCS and the EU-funded Hi-Drive project, successfully unfolded in Porto Heli on September 6-7, 2023. Despite weather-induced delays, the event gathered over 50 participants from across Europe, including researchers, PhD students, engineers, and industry experts.

Four sessions featured distinguished speakers from Volkswagen, Mercedes Benz, leading European Universities, and research institutes. The focus was on key aspects of Automated Driving (AD), covering robust all-weather perception, verification and validation of safety-critical systems, and human factors in evaluating automated driving systems. The summer school showcased the connection between research and regulatory deployment of CCAM applications, emphasizing practical insights into AD implementation and testing. The theme, ‘Driving towards the deployment of Higher Automation,’ fostered knowledge exchange and networking.

Attendees explored topics such as learning-based AD perception, safety analysis, real-world testing with simulation, collaborative driving testing, and human-CAV interaction testing. The event also featured a dynamic Student Poster Exhibition, providing a platform for early work discussions and fostering collaboration among Ph.D. students and young researchers.

Despite challenges, the 1st Hi-Drive Summer School significantly contributed to advancing the field of Automated Driving, reinforcing the importance of collaborative efforts in navigating its complexities.

>>>  The detailed agenda with all featured speakers is available HERE

Download all featured presentations:

• Corner Cases and Occlusions in Environment Perception for Automated Driving
  Jasmin Breitenstein, PhD Student Computer Vision, Technische Universität Braunschweig – Germany
• Artificial intelligence to improve vehicle vision for automated driving in poor visibility conditions – AI-SEE project overview
  Werner Ritter, Researcher and Senior Expert at Mercedes-Benz GA – Germany
• Robust Local and Collective Perception under Varying Weather Conditions
  Georg Volk, Researcher at University of Tübingen, Dpt. of Computer Science, Embedded Systems – Germany
• All-weather capable and ODD defragmenting fine resolution radar for automated driving
  Marc-Michael Meinecke, Senior Researcher at Volkswagen – Germany
• Evaluating Causal Effects of SOTIF Triggering Conditions
  Christian Neurohr, Researcher at DLR, Systems Engineering for Future Mobility Institute – Germany
• The Hi-Drive Driving Scenario Database
  Marcel Sonntag, Researcher, Institute for Automotive Engineering, RWTH Aachen University – Germany
• Towards a quantitative SOTIF validation of Automated Driving Systems
  Lina Putze, Researcher at DLR, Systems Engineering for Future Mobility Institute – Germany
• Recent advances on testing autonomous vehicle systems: an industry perspective
  Jon Sadeghi, Machine Learning research engineer, Five.ai – UK
• Safety Verification of Autonomous Vehicles via Edge Case Testing
  Felix Feng, Research Associate & Manager of the Intelligent Infrastructure and Transport Systems Laboratory at Imperial College London – UK
• Simulating the Future of Automated Driving: Unveiling Human Factors Issues and Providing HCI Insights
  Andreas Riener, Prof. for Human-Machine Interface and Virtual Reality, Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt
• Cooperative connected and automated mobility for Day-2-and-beyond services
  Claudio Ettore Casetti, Full Professor at Politecnico di Torino, Department of Control and Computer Engineering
• Regulations on Automated Driving Systems: The current state and some important challenges
  Konstantinos Mattas, Joint Research Centre (JRC), European Commission Ispra

Download all featured posters:

• Synthetic Driving Scenarios Generator
  Marianna Cossu, Ph.D. student in Science and Technology Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering, University of Genoa, Italy
• How do cyclists communicate their intent at intersections?
  Ali Mohammadi, Department of Mechanics and Maritime Sciences, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
• Obtaining AI system performance guarantees in the context of autonomous vehicles applied to image compression
  Jeremy Jaspar, CIFRE PhD student, Université Paris XIII, France
• Hamburg’s Roadmap to Autonomous Driving
  Tim Knutzen, Project Manager CCAM and C-ITS systems, Coordinator MODI Use Case, Germany
• Meaningful human control for safer and more accountable automated driving
  Lucas Elbert Suryana, PhD Researcher at TU Delft, Netherlands
• Scenario Dataset Creation using Matlab Automated Driving Toolbox
  Lucas Forneris, PhD student in Electronic Engineering from Elios Lab at University of Genoa, Liguria, Italy
• Safety Assessment and Monitoring in the AUTOtech.agiI Project
  Richard Schubert & Niklas Braun, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
• Safety Evaluation of Vehicle Automation Using Counterfactual Simulations
  Xiaomi Yang, PhD Student at Department of Mechanics and Maritime Sciences, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

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