State of Intelligent Vehicle Research/Deployment around the World

Abstract

Umit Ozguner is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Ohio State University and holds the T.R.C. Inc. Chair on Intelligent Transportation Research. His areas of research interest are in intelligent mobile systems, decentralization and autonomy issues, applied automotive control and ITS. Professor Ozguner was the first President of the IEEE ITS Council. He participated in the organization of many conferences and was the Program Chair for the 1997 IEEE ITS Conference, the General Chair of the 2002 IEEE CDC in Las Vegas and the 2003 IEEE IV Symposium. The team he coordinated participated successfully in the 1997 Automated Highway Demonstration in San Diego (Demo'97), where they demonstrated 3 fully automated cars doing lane-keeping, convoying and passing using radar and vision based guidance. He has recently been working on airborne detection and tracking of mobile ground based systems for both military and civilian applications. His team also recently developed the autonomous off road truck TerraMax, which participated in the 2004 DARPA Grand Challenge.