[The 22nd UTokyoIPL-CUTI Special Seminar]

1) Time and day : 2:00pm-3:30pm (Japan Standard Time), 1st August (Friday), 2025

2) Place : Place: Seminar room of International Project Lab, Department of Civil Engineering, UTokyo (3rd floor of Engineering Building No.11, Hongo Campus, UTokyo) and Zoom meeting room

3) Presentation

– Presenter: Prof. Bin Ran (Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor and Director of ITS Program, the University of Wisconsin at Madison)

– Title: Al Empowered Vehicle-Road-Cloud System for Autonomous Driving

– Abstract: The AI empowered autonomous driving system is relying heavily on the Vehicle-Cloud (VC) or Vehicle-Road-Cloud (VRC) platforms. Initially, this report will review the generational development of autonomous mobility system and discuss the scale of work for autonomous mobility in the US, China, and Europe. Then, it will present the system architecture for AI empowered autonomous mobility system. Specifically, it will discuss the system architecture from multiple perspectives, including system approach, safe system approach, and AI approach. The AI model system for autonomous mobility will be discussed in details. A three-layer AI model architecture will be explored, including the world model, the task-layer strategy model, and the end-to-end execution model. The application and impact of AI large models on autonomous mobility will be analyzed. Subsequently, it will discuss about the practice of Vehicle-Cloud (VC) or Vehicle-Road-Cloud (VRC) Systems in US, China, and Europe.

4) Short bio of presenter

Dr. Bin Ran is the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor and Director of ITS Program at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Dr. Ran is an expert in ITS and Connected Autonomous Mobility (CCM). Dr. Ran is the author of two leading textbooks on transportation planning and operations, and six books on intelligent highways; the author of over 850 scientific articles. He is the recipient of Wilbur S. Smith Distinguished Transportation Educator Award from ITE in 2018. He has more than 200 patents or patents pending in the US, China, Japan, Europe, and other countries. Dr. Ran serves as the Chair for Committee on Connected Autonomous Mobility, International Road Federation (IRF), which serves as the forum of global collaboration for more than 100 countries. He leads a Task Force of Transportation Research Board (TRB) to develop system architecture and development roadmaps for vehicle-highway automation in the US. He serves as the Chairman of the Faculty Committee, the major technical committee for World Transport Convention (WTC), which has participants from over 100 countries annually. He also serves as the Secretary General of Vehicle-Road Coordination Innovation Consortium (VRCIC).

5) Charge : free

6) Language : English

7) Participation : Please contact Ms Tomoko Samukawa (samukawa@ip.civil.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp) for joining this seminar, but you can join the seminar even without pre-registration.

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