We are very pleased to be able to welcome Dr. Javier Ibañez-Guzmán as our speaker at the joint MFI / IET Germany National Meeting in Augsburg on December 2nd. 2017.
Here are some details about the presentation and the speaker.
From Unmanned Ground Vehicles to Robo-Taxis: Changes to road transportation
Abstract
In the late 90s and at the beginning of the 21st century, considerable interest existed in the use of robotics technology for defence applications. The Prometheus and NavLab vehicles showed what can be done with autonomous vehicle in civilian applications. In October 2010, Google showed the Google car and its potential applications. Suddenly, autonomous vehicles were no longer an exotic topic and today considerable efforts are going into this area.
This presentation will share experiences from the deployment of a logistics armoured carrier to the deployment of an urban electric autonomous car to show how the technology evolved, the emergent architecture and the major challenges.
Biography
Javier Ibañez-Guzmán (IET Fellow, CEng) obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Reading on a SERCUK fellowship, and his MSEE at the University of Pennsylvania (USA) as a Fulbright scholar. In 2011, he was visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley (CITRIS), working on connected vehicle applications. He is currently a member of the technical staff at Renault S.A. and technical lead on autonomous vehicle navigation technologies. Currently he is also co-director of the perception & localisation laboratory, the SIVA-Lab, a joint venture between Renault, CNRS and UTC Compiègne. Formerly he was senior scientist at a national research institute in Singapore, where he spearheaded work on autonomous ground vehicles operating in unstructured environments.
Dr. Ibañez-Guzmán has several publications and patents in the robotics and automotive domains. He has successfully supervised a number of Ph.D. students.
Howard Gray