Call for Participation / Paper submission:
We are pleased to announce a half-day workshop titled “Safety of Intelligent and Autonomous Vehicles: Formal Methods vs. Machine Learning approaches for reliable navigation (SIAV-FM2L)”, which will be held in conjunction with the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2024). https://iros2024-abudhabi.org/ (14-18 October, Abu Dhabi).
Short description: SIAV-FM2L workshop aims the presentation of cutting-edge research topics, new original theoretical achievements, practical results, and high-fidelity simulation protocols, with a focus on guaranteed safety and flexibility of maneuvering with Intelligent/autonomous vehicles (I/AV) in various transportation domains, and using different research methodologies: the formal and machine learning ones. Submissions illustrating combinations of these two general methodologies leading to synergetic results, to obtain robust and flexible navigation of I/AV in complex environments / scenarios, are in a special interest of the workshop.
Main topic of interest: The workshop will encourage contributions coming from applications of formal methods or machine learning approaches reporting on original research, work under development, experimental results, and high-fidelity simulation protocols, related, but not limited, to one of the following topics for I/AV:
- Safety modeling, analysis, validation and testing
- Motion planning for safe maneuvering
- Control architecture design and standardization for flexible navigation and guidance
- Risk assessment and management under uncertainty
- Long-term autonomy
- Safety and flexibility in connected and cooperative I/AV
- Simulation benchmarking for characterizing safety
- Model-driven and data-driven methods increasing safety, reliability, and flexibility
- Safety in advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS)
- Perception, localization, and map-building methods for safe applications
- Applications of I/AV in the public, freight and agriculture transportation domains
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Keywords: Intelligent/autonomous vehicles; Safe maneuvering; Safety guarantees; Control architecture, Motion planning; Risk assessment and management; Long-term autonomy; Safe connected and cooperative vehicles; Model-based approaches; Data-driven approaches; Safety in ADAS.
More details on the motivations and the organization of the workshop are given via: https://shorturl.at/Bl3kR
Format of the papers / contributions (authors and keynote speakers)
Papers should be prepared according to the IROS’24 final camera-ready format and should be 4 to 6 pages long. The detailed information on the paper format is available through: https://iros2024-abudhabi.org/cf-contribution
For possible keynote speakers’ proposals, a short biography, a title, and an abstract are requested before September 1st.
Papers and keynote speakers’ proposals must be sent to Lounis ADOUANE by email at: lounis.adouane@hds.utc.fr
Important dates
- Deadline for paper submission and keynote speakers’ proposals: September 1st, 2024
- Notification of paper acceptance (with review comments): September 14th, 2024
- Final paper submission: October 1st, 2020
- Workshop date: October 15th (9h00-12h00)
Proceedings and Special issue
The workshop proceedings will be published as a PDF file within the SIAV-FM2L workshop website.
Selected papers will be considered for extended versions for a special issue in International journals such as Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems (JINT, IF: 3.1) or Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles (T-IV, IF: 14). We will issue an open call, submissions will go through a separate peer review process.
IEEE-RAS TC on ITS.
This workshop is organized in the framework of the IEEE Robotics and Automation’s Technical Committee on: Autonomous Ground Vehicles and Intelligent Transportation Systems
Workshop organizers:
Lounis Adouane, Professor, Université de technologie de Compiègne, CNRS, Heudiasyc, Compiègne, France.
lounis.adouane@hds.utc.fr
http://lounisadouane.online.fr
Philippe Martinet, Directeur de recherche, Centre INRIA d’Université Côte d’Azur, ACENTAURI Team, Sophia-Antipolis, France.
Philippe.Martinet@inria.fr
https://team.inria.fr/acentauri/philippe-martinet/
Johannes Betz, Professorship Autonomous Vehicle Systems, Technical University of Munich, Germany
johannes.betz@tum.de
https://www.mos.ed.tum.de/en/avs/team/prof-dr-ing-johannes-betz/
Antonios Tsourdos, Professor, Centre for Autonomous and Cyberphysical Systems, Cranfield University, Shrivenham, Swindon, SN6 8LA, United Kingdom
a.tsourdos@cranfield.ac.uk
https://www.cranfield.ac.uk/people/professor-antonios-tsourdos-746615
Xuebo Zhang, Professor, Institute of Robotics and Automatic Information Systems (IRAIS), College of Artificial Intelligence (CAI), Nankai University, Tianjin, 300350, China
zhangxuebo@nankai.edu.cn
