Prof. Laugier

Schedule

July 9th,2016

Topic:

: Towards fully Autonomous Driving? The Perception & Decision-making bottleneck

Abstract:

Thanks to the DARPA Urban Challenge in 2007, the launch a few years later of the Google Car project, the recent multiple announcements of the Automotive Industry, and the wide dissemination by the media of nice interviews and videos, the concept of Autonomous Driving seems to progressively become a reality for the next decades. The objective of this talk is to give a brief analysis of the state of the art, before focusing on one of the current brake on the deployment of such a technology: the lack of robustness and of efficiency of current Embedded Perception and Decision-making systems. New technologies and trends will be presented for addressing these issues. It will be shown that Bayesian approaches are mandatory for developing such technologies and for obtaining the required robustness in presence of uncertainty and complex dynamic situations. The talk will be illustrated by some interesting results obtained at Inria in the scope of several collaborative projects involving Toyota, Renault, CEA-LETI, or the French IRT Nanoelec.

Resume

• Dr. Christian LAUGIER is first class Research Director at Inria.
• His current research interests mainly lie in the areas of Motion Autonomy, Intelligent Vehicles, Embedded Perception, Decisional Architectures and Bayesian Reasoning.
• He is a member of several international scientific committees and he has organized or co-organized numerous IEEE workshops and major conferences in the field of Robotics.
• In particular he has been General Chair, Program Chair or Program co-Chair of the international conferences IEEE/RSJ IROS’97, IROS’00, IROS’08, IROS’10, IROS’12, IV’06, FSR’07 and ARSO’15.
• He is co-chair since 2005 of the IEEE RAS Technical Committee on “Autonomous Ground Vehicles and Intelligent Transportation Systems” which has been awarded twice (in 2006 and 2012), and he is also member of the Steering Committee and Senior Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicle.
• Christian Laugier has co-edited several books and handbooks in the fields of Robotics and Intelligent Vehicles, and he also co-edited several special issues in high impact Robotics journals such as IJRR, JFR, RAM, T-ITS or ITSM.
• He recently brought recognized scientific contributions and patented innovations to the field of Bayesian Perception & Decision for Autonomous Robots and Intelligent Vehicles.
• He is the recipient of several IEEE and conferences awards in the fields of Robotics and Intelligent Vehicles, including the IEEE/RSJ Harashima award 2012.
• He has also cofounded four start-up companies, and he is scientific advisor for Probayes SA.