A Stanford Graduate School of Business operational expert discusses ways companies can manage their global supply chains in light of trade wars and the coronavirus epidemic. Operational hedging strategies which include awareness of issues within and outside of supply chains, building flexibility into the production process and increasing logistical flexibility help manufacturers manage uncertainties.
Featuring former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Rodney Slater and former Secretary of Transportation of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Fred Salvucci, our March 5 Open Garage Talk focused on their work which led to profound transformations of urban space in the U.S., including Boston's Big Dig and the reconstruction of the Cypress St. viaduct as Mandela Parkway following the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. V iew the recording here.
Martin Holder, Research Associate and PhD candidate at the Institute of Automotive Engineering at TU Darmstadt, Germany researching radar sensor modeling for virtual validation of autonomous driving under the supervision of Prof. Hermann Winner is currently a Visiting Student Researcher at the Stanford Intelligent Systems Lab with Prof. Mykel Kochenderfer. Holder opened our 2019 webinar series with his presentation on Sensor Models for Virtual Validation of Automated Driving.
Changliu Liu, former CARS fellow and Assistant Professor with the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, presented her postdoctoral work with Mykel Kochenderfer for the March CARS webinar discussing Algorithms for Verifying Deep Neural Networks. P rofessor Liu leads the Intelligent Control Lab at CMU . View the agenda here a nd the vide
What does a barrel falling out of a warehouse in the 1800s h ave to do with liability for emerging automated vehicles? Bryan Casey — a Lecturer at Stanford Law School and a Fellow at CARS — will argue that a string of cases dating back to the industrial revolution actually provides an elegant solution for resolving complex questions of fault that lie at the heart of AV accidents. The webinar will track Bryan Casey’s forthcoming Article, Robot Ipsa Loquitur , featured in the Georgetown Law Journal. View the webinar here.
The Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers recognize some of the finest researchers who, while early in their research careers, show exceptional potential for leadership in their areas of expertise. Twelve Stanford faculty members were recipients this year including Gordon Wetzstein, seen here at far left, nominated by the Department of Defense. Link
The August Open Garage Talk, Designing to the Limits: Algorithms for Peak Performance is available here. CARS Co-Director Mykel Kochenderfer and Tim Wheeler, eVTOL software engineer, authors of Algorithms for Optimization , joined us for a moderated discussion with Sebastian Thrun, founder of Google's self-driving car team, discussing how modern design approaches shape what move us.
Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand (AMoD) systems present a major paradigm shift in modern mobility and a unique opportunity to alleviate many of our transportation woes. In our Sept webinar, Ramon Iglesias, Ph.D. candidate with Marco Pavone's lab will presented a queuing network approach to the problem of routing, re-balancing, and charging a fleet of self-driving vehicles within an AMoD system. View the webinar here.
Recordings from CARS Co-Directors, affiliated researchers and students who presented at the Nov 2019 CARS Annual Meeting are available here. The Annual Meeting brings together CARS affiliates, affiliated faculty, researchers and students for our annual research symposium. The agenda from the annual meeting can be viewed here.
Karen Leung Ph.D. candidate with Prof. Marco Pavone's Autonomous Systems Lab presented her research on using backward reachability analysis to construct a minimally-interventional safety controller operating within an autonomous vehicle control stack with the role of ensuring collision-free interaction with a human-driven counterpart. View the webinar here.
