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SUMMARY:MechE Colloquium: On the Fundamental Challenges for Self-Driving C
 ars [seminar co-sponsored by the IEEE-CSS]
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Emilio Frazzoli\, MobLab\, Department of Mechanical and 
 Process Engineering\, ETHZ\nThis seminar is co-sponsored by the IEEE-CSS.\
 n\nAbstract:\nAutonomous Vehicles\, Self-Driving cars\, Driverless Cars ha
 ve been recurring keywords in the media\, and an important focus for the r
 esearch community\, for more than a decade now. However\, as we move past 
 the peak of the hype cycle\, the industry is bracing for a development tim
 eline that is much longer than many early predictions.\n\nIn this talk\, I
  would like to focus on what I consider the main fundamental issues that r
 emain essentially unresolved\, and will require a concerted effort by indu
 stry\, academia\, and regulatory bodies to address.\n\nThese issues essent
 ially go beyond the (very hard\, but in a sense "standard" and well studie
 d) problems of control\, perception\, etc. and revolve around making sound
  decisions on precisely how we want these vehicles to behave\, both at the
  individual\, single-car level\, and at the fleet level. In other words\, 
 how we want these vehicles to behave when interacting with pedestrians\, c
 yclists\, or other cars\, and what effect we want them to have on urban mo
 bility\, including\, e.g.\, their impact on the urban environment\, public
  transit\, and society.\n\nFar from providing definitive answers\, I will 
 discuss some of the approaches we have been pursuing in addressing these p
 roblems\, and some of the progress we have made\, both at nuTonomy (and th
 en Aptiv and Motional)\, and ETH Zurich.\n\n\nBio:\nEmilio Frazzoli is a p
 rofessor of Dynamic Systems and Control at ETH Zurich. Until March 2021\, 
 he was Chief Scientist of Motional\, the latest embodiment of nuTonomy\, t
 he startup he founded with Karl Iagnemma in 2013. His main research inter
 est are in robotics\, autonomous systems\, and intelligent mobility. In ac
 knowledgement of his work in these fields\, Emilio has received several a
 wards\, including the the 2015 IEEE George S. Axelby Award and the 2017 IE
 EE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award\, and has been named an IEEE Fellow in 2019. A form
 er full professor at MIT\, he directed the research group that first demo
 nstrated an autonomous mobility (“robotaxi”) service to the public\, a
 nd performed the first analysis of the social and economic impact of such 
 a service\, based on real transportation data.\nHe holds a Laurea Degree 
 in Aeronautical Engineering from the Sapienza University of Rome\, and a P
 hD in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT.
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