RI Seminar: Dr. Fawzi Nashashibi: Towards true autonomous mobility services in cities

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RI Seminar: October 03, 2011 Towards true autonomous mobility services in cities - A European view through INRIA experience Dr. Fawzi Nashashibi Senior Researcher and Program Manager IMARA research Team at INRIA Abstract A lot of effort is deployed in Europe in order to achieve a more effective organisation of urban transport,resulting in a more rational use of motorised traffic with less congestion and pollution, safer driving, a higher quality of living and an enhanced integration with spatial development. This objective is brought closer by developing integrated traffic solutions: advanced concepts for innovative autonomous and automated road vehicles for passengers and goods, embedded in an advanced spatial setting. The city of tomorrow is in need of integrated traffic solutions that provide the required mobility in an efficient, safe and economic manner. It is inevitable that automation, in all possible forms between providing information at one end of the spectrum and fully autonomous driving at the other, will play a major role. In order to make significant steps forward towards a sustainable development of European cities, the European Commission has supported a number of projects: HAVEit, CityMobil, CityNetMobil... INRIA plays a key role in these projects and contributes in demonstrating integrated solutions for mobility. After a brief presentation of INRIA and IMARA team, this talk will build on the results of recent Euro- pean and French projects and will validate and demonstrate the capabilities of new mobility solutions in different European cities. Speaker Biography Fawzi Nashashibi, 45 years, is a senior researcher and the Program Manager of IMARA research Team at INRIA since January 2011. He has been senior researcher in the robotics centre of the École des Mines de Paris (Mines ParisTech) since 1994 and is an R&D; engineer and a project manager at ARMINES since May 2000. He was previously a research engineer at PROMIP and a technical manager at Light Co. Fawzi Nashashibi has a Masters Degree in Automation, Industrial Engineering and Signal Processing (LAAS/ CNRS), a PhD in Robotics from Toulouse University prepared in (LAAS/CNRS) laboratory, and a HDR Diploma (Accreditation to research supervision) from University of Jussieu (Paris 6). His main research topics are in environment perception and multi-sensor fusion, vehicle positioning and environment 3D modeling with main applications in Intelligent Transport Systems and Robotics. He played key roles in many of European and national French projects such as Carsense, ARCOS, LOVe, HAVE-it, SPEEDCAM, PICAV, CityMobil... some of which he is coordinating. He is also involved in much collaboration with French and international academic and industrial partners. He is author of numerous publications and patents in the field of ITS and ADAS systems.