What a start for IROS 2020 with the "Benchmarking Progress in Autonomous Driving" workshop!
The 2020 edition of the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) started great with the workshop on “Benchmarking Progress in Autonomous Driving”.
The workshop was held virtually on October 25th, 2020, using an engaging and concise format of a sequence of four 1.5-hour moderated round-table discussions (including an introduction) centered around 4 themes.
The discussions on the methods by which progress in autonomous driving is evaluated, benchmarked, and verified were exciting. Many thanks to all the panelists and the organizers!
Here are the videos of the various sessions.
Opening remarks
Theme 1: Assessing progress for the field of autonomous vehicles (AVs)
Moderator: Andrea Censi
Invited Panelists:
- Emilio Frazzoli (ETH Zürich / Motional)
- Alex Kendall (Wayve)
- Jane Lappin (Chair, Transportation Research Board Standing Committee on Vehicle-Highway Automation)
- Atul Acharya (Director, AV Strategy at AAA Northern California)
Theme 2: How to evaluate AV risk from the perspective of real world deployment (public acceptance, insurance, liability, …)?
Moderator: Jacopo Tani
Invited Panelists:
- Bryant Walker Smith (USC Faculty of Law)
- Luigi Di Lillo (Swiss Re Insurance)
- John Leonard (MIT)
Theme 3: Best practices for AV benchmarking
Moderator: Liam Paull
Invited Panelists:
- Fabio Bonsignorio (Heron Robots)
- Michael Milford (QUT)
- Oscar Beijbom (Motional)
- Marcelo H. Ang Jr (National University of Singapore)
Theme 4: Do we need new paradigms for AV development?
Moderator: Matt Walter
Invited Panelists:
- Raquel Urtasun (U of Toronto / Uber ATG)
- Edwin Olson (May Mobility)
- Ram Vasudevan (University of Michigan)
- Sertac Karaman (MIT / Optimus Ride)
Closing remarks
You can find additional information about the workshop here.