DATE Initiative on
Autonomous Systems Design
12-13 March 2020
Grenoble, France
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Thursday Special Day
You can find the list of accepted papers and interactive presentations below and download here.
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8:30
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Architectures and Frameworks for Autonomous Systems
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8:30 DeepRacing: A framework for Agile Autonomy
Trent Weiss (1), Madhur Behl (1)
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9:00 Fail-Operational Automotive Software Design Using Agent-Based Graceful Degradation
Philipp Weiss (1), Andreas Weichslgartner (2), Felix Reimann (2), Sebastian Steinhorst (1)
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9:30 A Distributed Safety Mechanism Using Middleware and Hypervisors for Autonomous Vehicles
Tjerk Bijlsma (1), Andrii Buriachevskyi (2), Alessandro Frigerio (3), Yuting Fu (2), Kees Goossens (4), Ali Osman Örs (2), Pieter J. van der Perk (2), Andrei Terechko (2), Bart Vermeulen (2)
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10:00
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Coffee break
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11:00
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Uncertainty Handling in Safe Autonomous Systems (UHSAS)
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11:00 Making the Relationship between Uncertainty Estimation and Safety Less Uncertain
Peter Schlicht (1), Vincent Aravantinos (2), Fabian Hüger (1)
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11:30 System Theoretic View on Uncertainties
Roman Gansch (1), Ahmad Adee (1)
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12:00 Detection of False Negative and False Positive Samples in Semantic Segmentation
Hanno Gottschalk (1), Matthias Rottmann (1), Kira Maag (1), Robin Chan (1), Fabian Hüger (2), Peter Schlicht (1)
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12:30
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Lunch break
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14:00
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Autonomous Cyber-Physical Systems: Modeling and Verification
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14:00 Trustworthy Autonomy: Behavior Prediction and Validation
Katherine Driggs-Campbell (1)
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14:30 On Infusing Logical Reasoning into Robot Learning
Marco Pavone (1)
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15:00 Formally-Specifiable Agent Behavior Models for Autonomous Vehicle Test Generation
Jonathan DeCastro (1)
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15:30
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Coffee break
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16:00
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Emerging Approaches to Autonomous Systems Design
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16:00 A Preliminary View on Automotive Cyber Security Management Systems
Christoph Schmittner (1), Jürgen Dobaj (2), Georg Macher (3), Eugen Brenner (2)
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16:20 Towards Safety Verification of Direct Perception Neural Networks
Chih-Hong Cheng (1), Chung-Hao Huang (2), Thomas Brunner (2), Vahid Hashemi (3)
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16:40 Minimizing Execution Duration in the Presence of Learning-Enabled Components
Kunal Agrawal (1), Sanjoy Baruah (2), Alan Burns (3), Abhishek Singh (2)
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17:00 - 17:30 Discussion Panel
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17:30
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Automated Driving Demo: Autonomous Renault Zoe vehicle-Focus on the Embedded Bayesian Perception component.
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INRIA Rhone-Alpes
Location: Parking PE1 behind the hall JM.
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18:30
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ASD Initiative Reception (only with reserved tickets)
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Supported by AID – Autonomous Intelligent Driving GmbH
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Friday Workshop
Keynotes
Pascal Traverse, General Manager for the Autonomy Thrust, Airbus
Summary: Autonomy is in the air: on one hand, pilot shortage is looming; on another hand technologies are maturing, pulled by the automotive market. In this context, Airbus is building a concept airplane from a blank sheet with the objective to improve human-machine teaming for better overall performance. Foundation of this new concept is that when they are made aware of the “big picture” with enough time to analyze it, humans are still the best to make strategic decisions. Autonomy technologies are the main enabler of this concept. Benefit are expected both in a two-crew cockpit and eventually in Single Pilot Operations.
Pascal is General Manager for the Autonomy Thrust at Airbus. A “thrust” represents a top technical focus area for Airbus. The General Manager creates a vision, coordinates R&T activities with the objective to accelerate the increase of knowledge in Airbus. Before his nomination last year, Pascal was coordinating Airbus Commercial R&T activities related to the cockpit and flight operations. Earlier in his carrier, Pascal participated in the A320/A330/A340/A380 Fly-by-Wire developments, certification harmonization with FAA and EASA, management of Airbus safety activities and even of qualities activities in the A380 Final Assembly Line. Pascal has Master and Doctorate’s degrees in embedded systems from N7 and conducted research in LAAS and UCLA.
Florian-Michael ADOLF, Head of Autonomous Flight, Volocopter
Summary: VoloCity is Volocopter’s latest product generation for inner urban missions which currently under development as a commercial passenger transport aircraft. Initially with pilot on board, it is foreseen to become unmanned, i.e. no human pilot onboard but still one or more passengers. The talk will highlight key technical challenges, standardization & certification considerations and an outlook to the overall concept which involves a mix between aviation “as we know it” and the next generation of these passenger carrying drones.
Florian is a roboticist specialized in unmanned aviation since over 15 years and joined Volocopter as Head of Autonomous Flight in 2018. He received his Computer Science degree in 2003 (Trier University), and a M.Sc. in Autonomous Systems in 2006 (Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University). Since the beginnings, Florian worked not only on autonomous functions for multiple aircraft platforms but also on the complex task of validation and verification thereof. As a former team lead at DLR’s Institute of Flight Systems (German Aerospace Center) his work has contributed to the foundation for autonomous self-piloting capabilities of drones. As such, Florian served as Subject Matter Expert on Unmanned Flight to the board of directors at the DLR Liaison Office in Washington D.C. in 2017. The results of his work from over more than a decade were published in renown international journals and his code base flew onboard various missions across a whole fleet of unmanned and optionally piloted aircraft. Having closely witnessed the clash of cultures between „classical“ aviation and Silicon Valley, he is committed to combine the best of both worlds at the intersection of robotics, drones and commercial manned aviation.
Program as a PDF is available here.
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8:30
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Opening Remarks
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8:45
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Keynote Session
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Autonomy: one step beyond on commercial aviation
Pascal Traverse, Airbus, France
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09:30
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Introduction to Demos
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UNICARagil Project
Armin Mokhtarian
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Breach
Alexandre Donzé
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Fail-operational Automotive Software
Philipp Weiß
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Autonomous Driving Demonstration: Focus on the Embedded Bayesian Perception component
Christian Laugier
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Autonomous Adaption and Morphing of Embedded Systems
Andy Pimentel, Martina Maggio, Juan Valverde
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Automated Driving Toolbox
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10:00
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Coffee break
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10:30
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Autonomy in Automotive
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10:30 Fusion: A Safe and Secure Software Platform for Autonomous Driving
Philipp Mundhenk (1), Enrique Parodi (1), Roland Schabenberger (1)
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11:00 Towards a Reliable and Context-Based System Architecture for Autonomous Vehicles
Tobias Kain (1), Julian-Steffen Müller (1), Philipp Mundhenk (2), Hans Tompits (3), Maximilian Wesche (1) and Hendrik Decke (1)
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11:30 Embedded Bayesian Perception and Decision-making system for Autonomous Vehicles
Christian Laugier (1)
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12:00
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Lunch break
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13:00
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Keynote Session
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VoloCity: Considerations for a Safe Transitions from Manned to Unmanned
Florian Michael Adolf
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14:00
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Safety-Critical Heterogeneous Computing for Aerospace
Juan Valverde (1)
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14:30
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Coffee break
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15:00
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Engineering of Autonomous Systems
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15:00 BreachFlows: Systematic Simulation-Based Testing with Formal Requirements For CPS
Alexandre Donze (1)
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15:30 Agile Requirement Engineering for a Cloud System for Automated and Networked Vehicles
Armin Mokhtarian (1), Alexandru Kampmann (1), Bassam Alrifaee (1), Bastian Lampe (1), Lutz Eckstein (1) and Stefan Kowalewski (1)
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16:00 Systematic Physical-World Testing of Autonomous Driving Systems
Cong Liu (1)
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16:30
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Open Floor Panel: Autonomy in Avionics and Automotive: Happy Marriage or Consensual Divorce?
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