Interviews 

Velodyne LiDAR are joining the AutoSens family in Brussels 2018. We caught up with Erich Smidt, Managing Director at Velodyne Europe GmbH. He gave us some great insight into Velodyne LiDAR and their future, the next big opportunity for LiDAR and the importance of simulation for testing and validation.

Kübra Zehra Kaşıkçı is an Automated Driving Researcher, Environmental & Engineering Psychology at the University of Surrey. She is presenting at AutoSens this September in Brussels, delivering the concept of “Developing High Fidelity and Ecologically Valid Simulation Models for Conditionally Automated Vehicles.” We caught up with Kübra ahead of the Brussels conference to find out more about her recent work, international environmental psychology platform EΨch (or ePSIch) and what she is most looking forward to about joining AutoSens.

With our next AutoSens on the horizon we took the opportunity to catch up with Arm. Arm returns again to support AutoSens, and we are excited to have them at the world-leading vehicle perception conference in Brussels. They gave us some interesting insights into the looming end of Moore’s law, their approach to the open vs closed architecture debate and their excitement about the widespread future use of properly capable Machine Learning.

We took time out to chat to one of our speakers at AutoSens – Pier Paolo Porta, Business Development Senior Manager at Ambarella. We delved further into his past and current life outside work, and heard all about some of his recent challenges and experiences, including their car “BRAiVE” which drove without human intervention in real traffic in the morning of July 12, 2013.

Professor Christoph Stiller, Responsible of Research Area “Optical Systems” Group, Institute of Measurement & Control Systems at KIT is joining the inspiration speaker line-up at AutoSens Brussels this September. We caught up with him recently to uncover a bit more about the person behind the expert and delved into some of this current thinking in our industry.

We caught up with ON Semiconductor ahead of AutoSens in Brussels this September. They chatted with us all about their portfolio expansion into LiDAR in automotive; their new modular automotive reference system; and the most exciting technology change they expect to see in the industry in 2018…

We took some time out recently to catch up with Michael Pont, Executive Director at SafeTTy Systems. Michael chats to us about the changes in demand for TT systems; complexity management challenges and insights from his book “The Engineering of Reliable Embedded Systems.”

We caught up with ST Micro ahead of AutoSens in Brussels. They shared with us more information on their new position processing chips and the need to get the media and school children involved in the current ADAS skills shortage. ST Micro will be exhibiting at AutoSens Brussels this September.