3. VDI-Konferenz - Automatisiertes Fahren

Registration & welcome coffee

Opening Speech ConCarExpo at the ConCar Forum Stage
The new Era of the Automotive Industry – Digital Revolution
and fully Automated Driving

• Changes in the automotive industry over the next years
• The way to fully automated driving
• Common challenges for the automotive, CE and IT Industry

Dipl.-Inf. Elmar Frickenstein, Senior Vice President Electrics/Electronics
and Driver Environment, BMW Group, Munich, Germany

Chair´s welcome and opening address

Prof. Dr. Lutz Eckstein, Director & Chair, Institute for Automotive
Engineering (ika), RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Suppliers and Car Manufacturers – How do Roles evolve due
to Automated Driving?

• From assisted to automated driving
• Requirements, cooperation and business models
• Perspectives

Dipl.-Ing. James Remfrey, Director, Systems & Technology, Chassis & Safety
Division, Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG, Frankfurt, Germany

Autonomous Driving – Technical and Institutional Challenges

• Outline of autonomous driving development
• Deployment and market milestones
• Technical and institutional challenges for deployment
• Driver and public acceptance

Takaaki Sugiura, Group Leader & Senior Researcher, ITS Business Group,
Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc., Tokyo, Japan

Challenges and Research Needs on Automated Driving

• Vehicle Intelligence
• Driving experience and control concepts
• Connectivity, security and evaluation methodology

Dr.-Ing. Adrian Zlocki, Head of ADAS Department, Driver Assistance,
Forschungsgesellschaft Kraftfahrtswesen mbH, Aachen, Germany

Lunch & visit of the accompanying trade exhibition ConCarExpo

A Revolution for the Eco-System of Mobility

• Autonomous driving stakes
• Renault vision
• French industrial plan for automated driving

Remi Bastien, Alliance Global Director, Prospective Autonomous Driving,
Division Alliance Technology Development, Renault – Nissan, Guyancourt
Cedex, France

Toyota’s Automated Driving Technology Development under
the “Mobility Teammate Concept”

• Integrated safety concept and Toyota safety sense
• The Teammate concept
• Toyota´s history of automated driving technology development
• Technical challenges, highway Teammate and future prospects

Jack Norikazu Endo, Project General Manager, BR Intelligent Vehicle
Development, Toyota Motor Corporation, Susono Shizuoka, Japan

Automated and Cooperative Driving in Practice:
Truck Platooning

• Concept goals and approach
• EU Truck Platoon Challenge
• Next steps towards long run tests on public road

Menno Beenakkers, M.Sc., Project Leader, Product Development,
co-author: Ir. Albert van der Knaap, Dr. Ir. Rudolf Huisman, all DAF Trucks,
Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Networking & coffee break

The Road towards higher Levels of Automation

• Technology challenges facing higher levels of automation
• The need to consider the consumer´s expectation and use cases• Issues with existing Human Machine Interfaces

Alain Paul Dunoyer, B.Eng., MSc., PhD, Head of Safe Car Division, SBD
Secured By Design Ltd., Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

 HMI for Automated Driving

• Motivation “Automated Driving”
• HMI development approach, requirements for AD
  as well as concepts and solutions
• Automation levels and challenges

Dipl.-Psych. Guido Meier-Arendt, Principal Technical Expert HMI, Division
Interior – Interior Electronics Solutions, Continental Automotive GmbH,
Babenhausen, Germany

Chair´s remarks

End of conference day one & Get-together

At the end of the first conference day we kindly invite you to use the
relaxed and informal atmosphere for in-depth conversations with
other participants and speakers.

Cars that Peek around the Corner

• Importance of HD maps and contextual, dynamic data
• Vehicle localisation and efficiency
• Connecting the vehicle to intelligent transportation infrastructure
• Data sharing within and use case illustrations

Dr. Martin Birkner, Head of Product Management, Automotive, HERE, Berlin,
Germany

Towards Robust Vehicle Localization in Urban Environments

• Urban automated driving (UAD)
• Robust vehicle localization
• Perception and maps for vehicle localization

Jan Rohde, M.Sc., Ph.D. Student, Corporate Research, Driver Assistance
Systems & Automated Driving, co-authors: Dr. Holger Mielenz, Dr. Frank
Niewels, Robert Bosch GmbH, Renningen, Germany

Networking & coffee break

Disruptive Changes in E/E and Software Architectures

• Centralization of data processing in ADAS and
  automated driving domain
• Use of Ethernet and software virtualization for vehicle control
• Software complexity through manifold dependencies
• Clarity through optimizing E/E and software architectures
• Experience reports from the development of the AUDI zFAS

Dr. Kai Richter, General Manager & CTO, Symtavision GmbH,
Braunschweig, Germany
Dr. Karsten Schmidt, Project Manager, Development Data Transfer
Technologies and Security, Audi Electronics Ventures GmbH,
Gaimersheim, Germany

Supervision for Limited Autonomous Driving

• IT infrastructure supporting limited autonomous driving
• Synthesis of on and off-board data
• Qualification of off-board data in compliance with functional safety
• Recommendation of track clearance in IT backbone

Dipl. Ing. Uwe Beher, Senior Consulatant, Automotive Division, co-author:
Dipl. Ing. Thomas Weyrath, Division Missionssysteme, ESG Elektroniksystemund
Logistik-GmbH, Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany

LiDAR Technology for Active Safety and Automated Driving

• Pros and cons of existing sensing technologies
• Sensing requirements for highly-automated driving
• SCALA: Sensor with unique capabilities
• Next steps of LiDAR technology

Dipl. Wirt. Ing. Harald Barth, Product Marketing Manager, Valeo Schalter
und Sensoren GmbH, Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany

Lunch & visit of the accompanying trade exhibition ConCarExpo

Deep Learning and Sensor Fusion: The Path to Autonomous Driving

• Supercomputing is the new horsepower
• Artificial intelligence is the key to autonomous driving
• End-to-end deep learning in the cloud and on the vehicle will exceed
  the levels of human perception

Danny Shapiro, Senior Director of Automotive, NVIDIA Corporation, Santa
Clara, CA, USA

Ethics and Liability in the Age of Automated Driving

• Automation of ethical decision-making and new forms of
  liability for manufactures
• New design methodology to automate ethical decision-making
  and avoid new forms of liability
• The embedded ethicist model

Dr. Jason Millar, Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of Common Law,
University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Networking & coffee break

Legal Aspects of Automated/Autonomous Driving
– A European Perspective

• The Vienna Convention
• Liability schemes
• Data and privacy

Nino Zambara, Policy Officer, Smart Cities & Sustainability Unit, DG
Connect, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium

Automated Driving, Liability and the Role of Insurers

• Automated driving and liability: From negligence to nudging
• Insuring automated driving - Motor vs. product vs. cyber liability
• Automated driving and Big Data: Risks and opportunities
• Next steps: Is there a need to change the legal framework?

Prof. Dr. iur. Ina Ebert, Leading Expert Liability and Insurance, Global
Clients/North America/Corporate Claims, Munich Re, Munich, Germany

Chair´s closing remarks

End of conference