Autonomous Ground Vehicles and Intelligent Transportation Systems: Committee Information

IEEE Robotics and Automation's Technical Committee
on:

Autonomous Ground Vehicles and Intelligent Transportation Systems

Scope

The goal of the TC on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) is to promote ITS applications within the Robotics and Automation Society and catalize the interaction between RAS and the Intelligent Transportation Systems Society. This is meaningful due to the variety of Robotics Technologies which are currently used in ITS. The committee will try to achieve these goals by organizing cross RAS-ITS events like journal special issues, workshops, conference special sessions etc. The TC will also try to promote international collaborations on this topic.

Examples of typical robotic technologies applied to the field of transportation are:

Motion and path planning.
Collision prediction and avoidance.
Pedestrian and vehicle detection.
Object detection, tracking and classification
Behavior understanding.
Real-time environment perception and sensor fusion.
Autonomous navigation.
Measurement systems.
Cooperation and communications (among vehicles and infrastructure).
Multi agent-based architectures.
Traffic supervision.

Activities

Special Issue of Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems on: Co-operative Robots, Machines and Systems Special Issue June 1, 2010 -
Contact Information: Ljubo Vlacic (l dot vlacic at griffith dot edu dot au)
This special issue, being focused on a broad spectrum of co-operative systems - regardless of whether they are embodied as cooperative
machines, cooperative robots, cooperative unmanned vehicles, cooperative software agents, cooperative computer games or just cooperative embedded systems - seeks submissions from scientists and researchers affiliated with both academic and industrial research institutes, as well as government institutions, on topics related (but not limited) to Co-operative Real- Time Decision Making & Control Models, Algorithms and Techniques for:
- Co-operative Robots
- Co-operative Embedded Systems
- Co-operative Unmanned Vehicles (terrain and urban road vehicles, underwater and air vehicles)
- Co-operative Machines
- Co-operative Software Agents
- Co-operative Computer Games
- Co-operative Systems

Submissions addressing practical applications and in-field experimental testing are strongly encouraged.

IMPORTANT DATES:

30 May 2009: Expression of Interest
01 June 2009: Opening Paper Submission
30 October 2009: Closing Paper Submission
28 February 2010: Paper Acceptance Announcement
15 April 2010: Camera-ready Paper Submission
July/August 2010: Expected Publication

ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS

Letters of intent are not compulsory. However, the authors are strongly encouraged to inform Professor Ljubo Vlacic of their intention to submit a paper.

Authors are advised to follow the electronic paper submission requirements, as per the Information for Authors Guidelines published at the journal’s web site. The entire paper electronic submission process as well as the paper review process will be managed via the journal’s web site at
http://www.editorialmanager.com/jint/. The authors should click on to the Special Issue on Coop RM&S menu option from the Article Type List.

Guest Editors: Ljubo Vlacic, Toshio Fukuda, and Michel Parent
Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems on: Perception and Navigation for Autonomous Vehicles Publication - Journal Special Issue December 1, 2009 -
Contact Information: Urbano Nunes
Dec. 2009: Expected Publication
IROS 2009 3rd Workshop on Planning, Perception and Navigation for Intelligent Vehicles Workshop October 15, 2009 - St. Louis, USA
Contact Information: Urbano Nunes
This workshop, which is organized in the framework of the IEEE RAS TC on Autonomous Ground Vehicles and ITS (http://tab.ieee-ras.org/), follows the successful PPNIV Workshop held in conjunction with IROS08 (http://www.isr.uc.pt/~urbano/WorkIROS08/).

ABSTRACT: The purpose of this workshop is to discuss topics related to the challenging problems of autonomous navigation and of driving assistance in open and dynamic environments. Technologies related to application fields
such as unmanned outdoor vehicles or intelligent road vehicles will be considered from both the theoretical and technological point of views. Several research questions located on the cutting edge of the state of the art will be
addressed. Among the many application areas that robotics is addressing, transportation of people and goods seem to be a domain that will dramatically benefit from intelligent
automation. Fully automatic driving is emerging as the approach to dramatically improve efficiency while at the same time leading to the goal of zero fatalities. This workshop will address robotics technologies, which are at
the very core of this major shift in the automobile paradigm.

Relevant topics include:
- Environment perception
- Road scene understanding
- Lane detection and lane keeping
- Pedestrian and vehicle detection
- Detection, tracking and classification
- Real-time perception and sensor fusion
- Feature extraction and feature selection
- Multi autonomous vehicles studies, models, techniques and simulations
- Cooperative techniques
- Collision prediction and avoidance
- Driver assistance systems
- SLAM in dynamic environments
- Real-time motion planning in dynamic environments.
- Sensor fusion for accurate global positioning
- Lidar, vision and radar sensing
- Vehicle localization and autonomous navigation
IEEE ICCP2009, Keynote Speech: Intervehicle communications for higher safety and higher efficiency at intersections Keynote August 27, 2009 - Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Contact Information: Michel Parent
Keynote Speech by Michel Parent on IEEE Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing (ICCP'09)

ABSTRACT: New technologies in vehicle to vehicle (V2V) and vehicle to infrastructure (V2I) is now being developed for numerous application. One key application is the improvement of safety at intersections. It is in particular the scope of the Intersafe-2 European Project. We can also use V2V and V2I for the improvement of efficiency at intersections if we can reduce the number of stops at intersections through a good cooperation between different flows of vehicles. At the same time we also want to maximize the throughput at the intersections. This problem has been studied for the operation of fully automatic vehicles such as those we find in current PRT, during the European project CyberCars-2 with interesting results.
Workshop on ITS Experiences in Europe Workshop June 18, 2009 - Murcia, Spain
Contact Information: Rafael Toledo-Moreo (toledo at um dot es)
The workshop focuses on current status of ITS in Europe. Special sessions are dedicated to ITS architectures and European experiences, vehicular communications and advanced vehicle applications. Members of the Autonomous Ground Vehicles and ITS TC are actively involved.
Sponsored by Spanish Ministry of Transportation and CESTRIN
Organized by University of Murcia
Workshop on ITS Applications and European Electronic Tolling Workshop June 9, 2009 - Bucharest, Romania
Contact Information: Rafael Toledo-Moreo (toledo at um dot es)
The workshop focuses on two aspects: technologies and architectures towards electronic tolling, and electronic tolling deployments and experiences in Europe.
Sponsored by Spanish Ministry of Transportation and CESTRIN
Organized by University of Murcia
IEEE IV2009, Keynote Speech: High Levels of Automation in Next Generation Vehicles Keynote June 3, 2009 - Xi'an, Shaanxii, China
Contact Information: Alberto Broggi (broggi at CE dot UniPR dot IT)
Keynote Speech by Alberto Broggi on IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV'09´)

ABSTRACT: The number of cars equipped with active ADAS is increasing on a regular basis. Systems like Lane Keeping, ACC, Parking Aid are becoming more and more common on high-end automobiles. These systems are meant to help the driver in specific situations during the driving task; usually they feature either longitudinal or lateral automatic control, but special care is taken to avoid completely automatic driving for long periods of time so that the driver is not taken out of the driving loop. Anyway, assuming that vehicles in the far future will be completely autonomous, some intermediate steps are mandatory, which are based on automating specific driving tasks in well-defined scenarios, such as -for example- highway driving. As a consequence, the driver and the vehicle itself will have to share vehicle control in a cooperative way. Indeed it will be highly probable that sometimes the driver's and the vehicle's intentions differ, creating a sort of conflict: a skilled driver might want to override vehicle's automation, while the vehicle's electronic pilot might want to help an incapable driver by taking control over him/her. The talk will propose a possible solution to this arbitration issue and will present the BRAiVE prototype vehicle, designed by VisLab to tackle these issues and demonstrate how high levels of automation might be integrated in future intelligent vehicles.
ICRA 2009 Workshop on Safe Navigation in Open and Dynamic Environments: Applications to Autonomous Vehicles Workshop May 12, 2009 - Kobe, Japan
Contact Information: Philippe Martinet (martinet at lasmea dot univ-bpclermont dot fr)
Organizers: Philippe Martinet, Christian Laugier, and Urbano Nunes
1st Prize of the Robochamps KIA Motors Urban Challenge Award December 1, 2008 -
Contact Information: Jackson Matsuura (jackson at itandroids dot com)
Jackson Matsuura from ITA-Brasil and Post-Doc with ISR (Institute for Systems and Robotics, Faculty of Sciences and Technology of University of Coimbra, Portugal) was recipient of the 1st Prize of the 2008 Robochamps KIA Motors Urban Challenge.
IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC 2008) Conference October 12, 2008 - Beijing, China
Members of the Autonomous Ground Vehicles and ITS TC were actively involved in IEEE ITSC 2008: Urbano Nunes serves ITSC 2008 as Program Co-Chair.
IROS 2008 2nd Workshop on Planning, Perception and Navigation for Intelligent Vehicles Workshop September 26, 2008 - Nice, France
Contact Information: Urbano Nunes
Organizers: Urbano Nunes, Christian Laugier, and Alberto Broggi

The Workshop had more than 70 attendees, and was composed by 1 invited talk by Prof. Alberto Broggi, entitled "Towards the Perfect Pedestrian Detection System?", and 17 regular paper presentations.
IEEE Intelligent Vehicle Symposium (IV 2008) Conference June 4, 2008 - Eindhoven, the Netherlands
Members of the Intelligent Transportation Systems TC are actively involved in organizing the IEEE IV 2008. Bart van Arem is General Chair, and Bart De Schutter is the Program Chair of the Conference.
Special Issue of Int. Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems (IJIIDS) on: Information Processing in Intelligent Vehicles and Road Applications Publication - Journal Special Issue May 1, 2008 -
Contact Information: Rafael Toledo-Moreo (toledo at um dot es)
Guest Editor: Rafael Toledo-Moreo
Volume 2 - Issue 2 - 2008
Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems: Special Issue on ITSC06 Publication - Journal Special Issue March 1, 2008 -
Contact Information: Urbano Nunes
Guest Editors: U. Nunes, H. Rakha, Y. Wang, and D.-H. Lee
Special Issue of Int. Journal of Vehicle Autonomous System (IJVAS) on: Advances in Autonomous Vehicle Technologies for Urban Environment Publication - Journal Special Issue January 1, 2008 -
Contact Information: Christian Laugier (Christian dot Laugier at inrialpes dot fr)
Guest Editors: Danwei Wang, Shuzhi Sam Ge, and Christian Laugier
IEEE International Conference on Vehicular Electronics and Safety (ICVES07) Conference December 13, 2007 - Beijing, China
Contact Information:
Members of the Autonomous Ground Vehicles and ITS TC were actively involved in organizing the IEEE ICVES 2007: Urbano Nunes was the Program Chair.
NiSIS International Competition 2007: Analysis and Classification of the DaimlerChrysler Automotive Dataset Images Award November 20, 2007 -
NiSIS (Nature-inspired Smart Information Systems) awarded as a winner in the NiSIS competition 2007,

Luciano Oliveira, Urbano Nunes, and Paulo Peixoto

for their solution "Scheme of Primate's Visual Cortex Cells for Pedestrian Recognition"
(the developed model got the best accurary result)
ITS Architecture Workshop Workshop November 12, 2007 - Murcia, Spain
Contact Information: Rafael Toledo-Moreo (toledo at um dot es)
Main objective of this workshop was to put in common the experiences, tendencies and case studies of ITS architectures within Europe. Following one of the recommendations of the CEN TC278 Workshop on June in Madrid, this Workshop aims to facilitate a place for open exchange of ideas and knowledge between the different stakeholders and specially the governments in the process of the application of ITS in their countries.
IROS 2007 Workshop on Safe Navigation in Open and Dynamic Environments: Applications to Autonomous Vehicles Workshop October 29, 2007 - San Diego, USA
Contact Information: Christian Laugier
Organizers: Christian Laugier, Urbano Nunes, and Hadi Moradi
Autonomous Navigation in Dynamic Environments Publication - Book June 1, 2007 - Springer
Contact Information: Christian Laugier
Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics,
Guest Editors: Christian Laugier and Raja Chatila.
First Asia-Europe Symposium on Intelligent Vehicles Event - Symposium May 22, 2007 - Shanghai
Contact Information: Ming Yang (mingyang at sjtu dot edu dot cn)
The First Asia-Europe International Symposium on Intelligent Vehicle will be held on May 22-24, 2007 at Shanghai Oriental Land, Shanghai. This symposium is organized by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and supported by EU Asia-IT&C Programme CyberC3 Project, French-Asia ICT Programme FACT Project and Shanghai Oriental Land. More than 100 participants from China, France, Portugal, Holland, Belgium, Singapore, Korea, Japan, etc., are expected to attend the symposium.

The main aims of this symposium are to exchange new idea and the latest research results in the field of intelligent vehicles, to explore development and application perspective of Cybernetic Transport System in Asia and Europe, and to promote further technology exchange and friendly cooperation among Asia-Europe collaborators.

During the three-day symposium, the CyberC3 Driverless System, which is developed under close cooperation among Asian and European researchers will be demonstrated with some other demonstration by partners from the CyberC3 Project and the FACT project. We are glad to invite you to attend this symposium and relevant demonstration activities. With your participation and support, we believe this symposium can be a big success. Looking forwards to see you in the Shanghai Oriental Land.
ICRA 2007 Workshop on Planning, Perception and Navigation for Intelligent Vehicles Workshop April 14, 2007 - Rome
Contact Information: Urbano Nunes
Organizers: Urbano Nunes, Christian Laugier, and Alberto Broggi

The Workshop had more than 60 attendees, and was composed by 2 invited talks and 16 regular paper presentations.

Invited Talks:
- by Michel Parent: Cybercars, mobility for everyone
- by Mohan Trivedi: Holistic sensing and dynamic displays for human-centric active safety
Eurocast 2007 Workshop on Cybercars and Intelligent Vehicles Workshop February 12, 2007 - Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Contact Information: Michel Parent, Garcia-Rosa Ricardo
IROS 2006 Track of Special Sessions on Perception and Navigation for Automated Vehicles Organized Session October 11, 2006 - Beijing, China
Contact Information: Urbano Nunes, Ming Yang, and Michel Parent
IROS 2006 Workshop on Safe Navigation in Open and Dynamic Environments - Autonomous Systems versus Driving Assistance Systems Workshop October 10, 2006 - Beijing, China
Contact Information: Christian Laugier, and Roland Siegwart
IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society, Oustanding Service Award Award September 20, 2006 - Toronto, Canada
Urbano Nunes was recipient of an Oustading Service Award of IEEE ITS Society for his Leadership and Service in Organizing the 2006 IEEE ITSC 2006, Toronto. Urbano Nunes was the ITSC 2006 Program Chair.
ITSC 2006 Track of Special Sessions on Cybercars Technology and Trends Organized Session September 17, 2006 - Toronto, Canada
Contact Information: Michel Parent, Laurent Trassoudaine, and Urbano Nunes
IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC 2006) Conference September 17, 2006 - Toronto, Canada
Contact Information: Baher Abdulhai, Matthew Roorda
Members of the Intelligent Transportation Systems TC were actively involved in organizing the IEEE ITSC 2006. Urbano Nunes was the Program Chair, and Alberto Broggi was a Program Co-Chair of the Conference.

Several Special Sessions have been set up at the conference, namely the following more closely related with R&A topics:

Special Session on "PATH at 20"
Organizer:Steven E. Shladover

Special Session on "Cybercars Technology and Trends"
Organizers: Urbano Nunes, Michel Parent, and Laurent Trassoudaine.
Workshop on Robotics and Neurophysiology Workshop September 1, 2006 - College de France, Paris
Contact Information: Christian Laugier (Christian dot Laugier at inrialpes dot fr)
Meeting of the FACT French-Asian network on ITS meeting June 16, 2006 - University of Tokyo
Contact Information: Christian Laugier
Meeting involving labs from France, China, Korea, Japan, Singapore
IEEE Intelligent Vehicle Symposium (IV 2006) Conference June 13, 2006 - Tokyo, Japan
Contact Information: Katsushi Ikeuchi
Members of the Intelligent Transportation Systems TC are actively involved in organizing the IEEE ITSC 2006. Katsushi Ikeuchi is the General Chair, and Christian Laugier is a Program Co-Chair of the Conference.

Conference on basic research and present and future applications for Intelligent Vehicles and Intelligent Infrastructures. IEEE Intelligent Transportation System Society (ITSS) sponsored Symposium.
Our Technical Committee obtained the RAS Most Active TC Award Award May 15, 2006 - Orlando, USA
Announced at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Orlando, Florida
France-Korea workshop on ADAS Workshop December 9, 2005 - INRIA Rocquencourt
Contact Information: Michel Parent, Thierry Fraichard
Workshop in the scope of the Safemove Project
2nd Korea-France Symposium on Dependable Robotic Navigation Workshop October 27, 2005 - SungKyunKwan University (Korea)
Contact Information: Sukhan Lee
Symposium in the scope of the Safemove Project
IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC 2005) Conference September 14, 2005 - Vienna, Austria
Contact Information: Reinhard Pfiegl
Members of the Intelligent Transportation Systems TC were actively involved in organizing the IEEE ITSC 2005. Stefano Stramigioli was the Program Chair, and Alberto Broggi and Bart de Schutter were Program Co-Chairs of the Conference.
Grand Challenge 2005 - Vislab participation Competition September 10, 2005 - USA
Contact Information: Alberto Broggi
The VisLab research group (Univ of Parma, Italy) participated with a great success to the Grand Challenge. They were part of the TerraMax team, the only team which fielded a truck and was able to have it reach the finish line! VisLab designed the vision system for this truck, based on a trinocular system. The TerraMax vehicle was the only vehicle which reached the finish line using vision as its primary sensor.
Special Issue of Autonomous Robots on: Robotics Technologies for Intelligent Road Vehicles Publication - Journal September 1, 2005 - Springer
Contact Information: Urbano Nunes, and Michel Parent
ICRA 2005 Workshop on Autonomous Navigation in Dynamics Environments Workshop April 22, 2005 - Barcelona, Spain
Contact Information: Christian Laugier, Raja Chatila
Special Issue of IEEE R&A Magazine on: Intelligent Transportation Systems Publication - Journal March 1, 2005 -
Contact Information: Stefano Stramigioli, Alberto Broggi
Korea-France Symposium on Dependable Robotic Navigation Workshop October 4, 2004 - SungKyunKwan University (Korea)
Contact Information: Sukhan Lee, Thierry Fraichard
Symposium in the scope of the Safemove Project
IROS 2004 Special Session on Cybercars Organized Session September 28, 2004 - Sendai, Japan
Contact Information: Stefano Stramigioli, and Christian Laugier
Second workshop on Sensor Data Fusion for ADAS Workshop June 23, 2004 - Country Inns & Suites’ hotel (Paris, France)
Contact Information: Christian Laugier, Olivier Aycard
Workshop organize in the scope of the PreVent/Profusion European project
IEEE Intelligent Vehicle Symposium (IV 2004) Conference June 14, 2004 - Parma, Italy
Contact Information: Broggi Alberto
Members of the Intelligent Transportation Systems TC were actively involved in organizing the IEEE IV'04. Alberto Broggi was the General Chair, and Christoph Stiller was the Program Chair of the Symposium.

The Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV'04) is an annual forum sponsored by the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Council. It gathers researchers from industry and universities to discuss research and applications for Intelligent Vehicles and Intelligent Infrastructures.
Workshop on Sensor data fusion for ADAS Workshop May 13, 2004 - Inria Rhône-Alpes - Grenoble (France)
Contact Information: Christian Laugier, Olivier Aycard
Workshop organize in the scope of the PreVent/Profusion European project
Workshop on Sensors for Cars Workshop April 23, 2004 - BMW Forschungs und Innovationszentrum (Germany)
Contact Information: Christian Laugier, Olivier Aycard
Workshop organize in the scope of the PreVent/Profusion European project
Special Issue of Machine Intelligence and Robotic Control on: Robotics Technologies for Intelligent Vehicles Publication - Journal Special Issue September 1, 2003 -
Contact Information: Urbano Nunes, Michel Parent
4th Int. Conf. on Field and Service Robotics (FSR 2003), Plenary Talk: ITS Technologies Talk July 14, 2003 - Yamanashi, Japan
Contact Information: Alex Zelinsky
ICAR 2003 Track of Special Sessions on Robotics Technologies for Intelligent Vehicles Organized Session June 30, 2003 - Coimbra, Portugal
Contact Information: Urbano Nunes, Michel Parent

Background

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Founding Date: July 1, 2002
Member Count: 185
Spring 2010 Committee Chairs:
- LAUGIER, Christian (Christian dot Laugier at inrialpes dot fr)
  - INRIA
- Nunes, Urbano (urbano at deec dot uc dot pt)
  - University of Coimbra
  - corresponding chair - send email to join committee
- Broggi, Alberto (broggi at ce dot unipr dot it)
  - Univ of Parma
- alirezaie, mohsen (alirezaie at dena dot kntu dot ac dot ir)
  - K. N. Toosi University
  - corresponding chair - send email to join committee
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