Virtual Workshop: In response to COVID-19, most participants will participate virtually in this workshop via Zoom. Workshop registrants will receive the Zoom link a few days prior to the workshop, along with instructions on how to participate. The video of the recorded sessions will be made available on IPAM website.
In some application fields, automation will eventually remove humans from the loop, and autonomous systems will operate far away from any human agents. Not so with autonomous vehicles. Recent trends in urbanization are showing that future cities will flourish with human activity (pedestrians, bicycles), and autonomous vehicles will need to actively work with and around the humans. The development of autonomous vehicles can therefore not be undertaken without a better understanding of human nature, including but not limited to: pedestrian motion and decisionmaking, heterogeneous traffic (bicycles, mopeds, buses, cars), cyber-security, and crime modeling. At the same time, with full autonomy (level 5, which removes the human from the driving process), a fundamental paradigm shift will occur in how we, as humans and as a society, will see, perceive, and interpret the process of driving. Who is operating the vehicle? Who is responsible ifan accident occurs? Will there be a central control entity, or must one aim for decentralized controls? What degree of connectivity and information exchange is desirable? How can such human-in-the-loop cyber physical systems be efficiently designed, particularly when many other vehicles are not fully autonomous yet? What is the role of public and private entities in our future transportation systems? What are the ethics of programming a level 5 AV? This workshop brings together researchers from a variety of disciplines, including experts on social/behavioral, ethics, legal, and policy aspects, as well as researchers working on other heterogeneous systems (swarming and animal motion/migration, distributed leaders and sparse control, cell biology) that can serve as inspirations.
This workshop will include a poster session; a request for posters will be sent to registered participants in advance of the workshop
Spring Berman
(Arizona State University)
Sebastien Motsch
(Arizona State University)
Benedetto Piccoli
(Rutgers University)
Joan Walker
(University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley))
Copyright. All Rights Reserved.