Organizers
Valentin Scinteie, Director Business Development - Transportation, Kontron (Session Chair)
Dominique Freckmann, Automotive Engineering Manager, TE Connectivity
Eetu Pilli-Shivola, Chief Adviser (Connected and Automated Driving), Traficom
Robert Dingess, President, Mercer Strategic Alliance, Inc.
Stacey Randecker, Senior AV Marketing Manager
Session Description
This session will focus on the key technologies that shape the autonomous vehicles landscape.
Whether it is for partial automation for L2/3 systems or reaching the holy grail of L4/5 systems, we will examine the components and systems available to AV architects. Our expert panelists will concentrate the discussion on the challenges we are facing in the many ongoing pilot projects followed by “what is coming next” in terms of technologies to address these challenges on each of these three areas:
- Sensing and Perception - Cameras, LiDAR, Radar, Infrared and Sensor Fusion.
- Position, Localization and Mapping - Continually updated HD Mapping, and precision location inputs/surrounds.
- High Power Compute - The ability to process the necessary data for successful autonomous systems.
Goals/Objectives/Outputs
The goals of this session are to:
- Provide an overview of the landscape of the ever-expanding number of players developing key technologies to enable autonomous vehicles.
- Examine potential shortfalls in these technologies, ranging from pure technical capabilities through the conformance to the perspectives listed above.
- Enable interaction with our panelists and attendees via session Q&A and continuing conversations.
By the end of the session, we hope to achieve:
- Views of technology needs for successful models of deployment of automated vehicles
- A set of required developments and research topics based upon the challenges we are facing in the many ongoing AV pilots
Agenda
1:30 PM – 2:00 PM Autonomous Vehicles and the MobilIty Ecosystem
Session Chair:
- Valentin Scinteie, Kontron
Keynote Speaker:
- Karl Iagnemma, President of Aptiv Autonomous Mobility
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Panel: Sensing and Perception
Developments in AV sensors (Cameras, LiDAR, Radar, Infrared) and Sensor Fusion.
Moderator:
- Robert Dingess, Mercer Strategic Alliance
Panelists:
- Frank Bertini, UAV and Robotics Business Manager, Velodyne LiDAR
- Mr. Wei Wei, Senior Director, Corporate Development, Cepton Technologies, Inc.
- Mr. Harri Santamala, CEO & Founder, Sensible 4
- Mrinal Sood, Technical Sales Manager, Innoviz Technologies
3:30 PM – 3:45 PM Break
3:45 PM – 4:15 PM Panel: Position, Localization and Mapping
Continually updated HD Mapping, and precision location inputs/surrounds.
Moderator:
- Robert Dingess, Mercer Strategic Alliance
Panelists:
- Rob Hranac, CEO, Swift Navigation
- Ray Mandli, President, Mandli Communications
4:15 PM – 5:15 PM Panel: High Power Compute
The ability to process the necessary data for successful autonomous systems.
Moderator:
- Valentin Scinteie, Kontron
Panelists:
- Robert Day, Arm, Director Automotive Solutions and Platforms
- Sean Hyde, Uber Advanced Technologies Group, Electrical System Architect
- Jack Weast, Sr. Principal Engineer at Intel and VP Autonomous Vehicle Standards at Mobileye
5:15 PM – 5:30 PM Conclusion