The countdown has officially begun! With less than a month to our first AutoSens event in 2022, we can’t wait to welcome you again at the Michigan Science Center in the Motor City, Detroit.
For 3 full days starting on May 10, we are bringing together over 50 speakers, tutorial leaders, keynotes, and panellists on the technical agenda who are eager to ignite insightful conversations. Our keynote speakers represent top leading companies in platforms, sensors, AVs and industry analysts, sharing their current and future perspectives on some of the core topics in designing safe and effective ADAS and AD systems.
To pique your interest, here is a snapshot of the plethora of Keynotes and topics that the AutoSens agenda will cover.
The benefits of AVs can only be meaningful when deployed at scale, and one company that has started to experience a progression to scaling up, is Cruise. As Cruise moves from R&D into early commercialization, the approach to system architecture has evolved to provide for a more capable system at a cost point that enables rapid scaling.
We are pleased to welcome Shane McGuire, Principal Systems Engineer, Systems Architecture, Cruise, who will discuss this progression, some of the enabling technologies and paradigms, and what he anticipates for the future.
Shane has spent his recent career developing sensors for autonomous driving applications and prior to that he led development efforts for camera systems at Cruise and was involved in that space at Waymo as well. He has attended AutoSens several times before and is looking forward to sharing his perspectives as our opening keynote in Detroit this year.
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Day and Time: Wednesday 11th May | 09:10am EST
Location: IMAX
Moving from challenges in system architecture to the technical challenges of developing exterior cameras, we are looking forward to Boyd Fowler, CTO of OMNIVISION, sharing a keynote-length technical presentation this year.
Exterior automotive imaging applications are quickly evolving, to meet customer requirements image sensor manufactures are being forced to develop new technologies. Many of these new technologies are necessary for both human and machine vision applications. Exterior cameras are used for rear view, surround view, e-mirror, digital video recording, ADAS and AD applications.
Boyd has much experience in developing high-performance CMOS image sensors and will discuss the requirements and challenges associated with developing these new technologies, as he notes that unfortunately these requirements are often conflicting forcing image sensor manufacturers to make tradeoffs based on cost, size and time to market. Boyd will specifically, discuss high dynamic range image capture, LED flicker mitigation, low light sensitivity, high temperature operation and cyber security.
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Day and Time: Thursday 12th May | 02:45pm EST
Location: IMAX
As new technologies develop and the industry grows, the market landscape adjusts. A regular, and very popular speaker at AutoSens, Rudy Burger, Managing Partner at Woodside Capital has deep technical expertise and an awareness of market opportunity dynamics in the Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) sector, and has written several industry research reports to profile the leading and emerging technologies and outline the market landscape. We are thrilled that Rudy is back as our final opening keynote speaker to provide the latest update on M&A Activity and market dynamics.
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Day and Time: Wednesday 11th May | 10:10am EST
Location: IMAX
Moving to the closing plenary, we look closer at designing safe systems. IIHS join us to provide a briefing on the new ratings program on Safeguards for Partial Driving Automation, including: The evaluations centre on the types of safeguards these systems ought to implement to help drivers fulfil their roles and understand their responsibilities when supported by the partial automation. The safeguard categories addressed in the program include driver monitoring, attention reminders, emergency escalation, cooperative steering, as well as responsible application of automation functionality. The program also addresses whether these L2 systems permit unsafe scenarios, such as disabling crash avoidance features or unbuckling of a driver’s seat belt.
Dr. Alexandra Mueller, Research Scientist, IIHS, is well placed to share insights on the usability and safety of driver assistance technologies and driving automation, as this is her core research area.
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Day and Time: Thursday 12th May | 02:15pm EST
Location: IMAX
Following Dr. Mueller’s system level safeguard approach and taking a more technical dive into safety, Mark Costin, Distinguished Functional Safety Engineer at NVIDIA will explain what is expected for sensor suppliers in relation to ISO 26262 and SOTIF. Mark is responsible for safety analyses of autonomous driving and has been involved in the development of ISO 26262, “Road Vehicles – Functional Safety,” in the US TAG and international working group since 2010. Mark is currently one of 7 technical experts representing the US for ISO TC22/SC32/WG8, which is responsible for ISO 26262 and ISO 21448, “Road Vehicles – Safety of the Intended Functionality.”
Mark will compare the two standards and share the expectations on deliverables from sensor suppliers to show compliance with the standards, since there is often misunderstanding between the different requirements.
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Day and Time: Thursday 12th May | 02:45pm EST
Location: IMAX
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As we said, this is only a sneak peek of what our agenda will cover this year. View the full schedule of presentations and panels here to explore session on LiDAR, RADAR, in-cabin technologies, AI, data and more enabling technologies.
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