Presented By: University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute
UMTRI Distinguished Speaker Series: Making Autonomous Vehicles Safe
Professor Ragunathan "Raj" Rajkumar
Autonomous vehicles have long promised significant benefits to society in terms of safety, economic productivity, convenience, and improvements in the quality of living for those unable to drive. Costly ups and downs have unfortunately been numerous along this promised pathway to a revolution in transportation. This talk will highlight the challenges and opportunities to make autonomous vehicles safe and scalable, while offering the view that the solutions need to take a macroscopic view that is larger than a single domain, like artificial intelligence. The presentation will discuss how Carnegie Mellon University tackles the essential safety, cost, and scalability necessities for deploying autonomous consumer passenger vehicles.
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About the speaker: Professor Ragunathan "Raj" Rajkumar is the George Westinghouse Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and of Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where he directs the Safety21, the US DOT National University Transportation Center, and the Metro21 Smart Cities Institute. He is considered a pioneer in autonomous driving technologies, and led the General Motors-Carnegie Mellon Connected and Autonomous Driving Collaborative Research Laboratory from 2004-20. He was on the Executive Committee that oversaw the CMU Tartan Racing team that won the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge, and also led its Systems Engineering group. He has authored one book, edited another book and holds four US patents. Nine of his publications have received Best Paper Awards. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, an IEEE Fellow, a co-recipient of the IEEE Simon Ramo Medal, and an ACM Distinguished Engineer. He received the Outstanding Technical Achievement and Leadership Award by the IEEE Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems. Prof Rajkumar’s work has influenced many commercial real-time operating systems. He was also the founder of TimeSys that commercialized real-time versions of Linux and Ottomatika Inc that delivered the software intelligence for self-driving vehicles. TimeSys was acquired by Lynx and Ottomatika was acquired by Delphi, now Motional. His research interests include all aspects of cyber-physical systems with a particular emphasis on connected and autonomous vehicles. His work has been covered globally in print, on TV, online and on radio.
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About the speaker: Professor Ragunathan "Raj" Rajkumar is the George Westinghouse Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and of Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where he directs the Safety21, the US DOT National University Transportation Center, and the Metro21 Smart Cities Institute. He is considered a pioneer in autonomous driving technologies, and led the General Motors-Carnegie Mellon Connected and Autonomous Driving Collaborative Research Laboratory from 2004-20. He was on the Executive Committee that oversaw the CMU Tartan Racing team that won the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge, and also led its Systems Engineering group. He has authored one book, edited another book and holds four US patents. Nine of his publications have received Best Paper Awards. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, an IEEE Fellow, a co-recipient of the IEEE Simon Ramo Medal, and an ACM Distinguished Engineer. He received the Outstanding Technical Achievement and Leadership Award by the IEEE Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems. Prof Rajkumar’s work has influenced many commercial real-time operating systems. He was also the founder of TimeSys that commercialized real-time versions of Linux and Ottomatika Inc that delivered the software intelligence for self-driving vehicles. TimeSys was acquired by Lynx and Ottomatika was acquired by Delphi, now Motional. His research interests include all aspects of cyber-physical systems with a particular emphasis on connected and autonomous vehicles. His work has been covered globally in print, on TV, online and on radio.
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