TASCC: Secure Cloud-based Distributed Control (SCDC) Systems for Connected Autonomous Cars
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Surrey
Department Name: Communications Systems Res CCSR
Abstract
Automotive industry and the consumers are eager for smart features on new cars and more efficient vehicles. Modern cars are not considered as mere means for travelling from point A to B anymore, but rather smart systems that offer personalised services and have the capability to adapt to the user's preferences and needs. They are expected to become intelligent agents that learn from their environments and exploit various sources of information to become increasingly autonomous systems that relieve the driver from tedious tasks, such as parking, and improve safety, efficiency, and desirability of the future cars.
From a wider angle, today's land transportation systems claim about 1.3 million lives and 7 million injuries in road accidents, according to a recent report by CISCO. The increasing number of cars results in traffic jams costing about 90 billion of lost hours for the drivers and the passengers. In addition, transportation accounts for about 26% of the total greenhouse gas emission from human activities. While public transport can help, cars remain to be the desired means of transport according to a recent report by the Department of Transport in 2014.
These market forces in addition to the environmental, economic and social impacts of transport systems demand a timely and transformative research to rethink the automotive control systems and revolutionise vehicle design for future cars.
There have been two trends towards this objective in the past decade: in the one hand the research in autonomous systems, inspired by unmanned space vehicles, gave birth to driver-less concept cars such as Google robotic car; on the other hand, modern wireless communications enabled cars to talk to each other and the roadside infrastructures, resulting in the concept of connected cars. However, driver-less cars remain to be too expensive for commercial vehicles (Google's cars cost about £100,000 only for sensing equipment) and connected vehicles can offer little if not properly integrated into smart and autonomous features.
This ambitious research is defined by a number of world-class academic institutions and leading industrial partners to work with Jaguar Land Rover, a market leader in high end cars, to design and validate a framework that combines the power of connected vehicles concept with the notion of autonomous systems and build a novel platform for cost-effective deployment of autonomous features and ultimately realisation of connected and fully autonomous cars. This can be made possible thanks to modern wireless technologies and the power of cloud computing that allows sharing expensive computing resources (hence, reducing costs per vehicle) and provides access to information that are only available on the cloud.
To realise the ambition of the project, a number of key challenges in the areas of ultra-low-latency wireless technologies, cloud computing, distributed control systems, and human interaction issues will be addressed in this project. In addition, potential security threats will be identified and analysed to assess the potential risks for the public and reputational damage for car manufacturers should such technologies be commercialised. At the end of the project, the technical solutions will be integrated into a single framework and will be validated by example applications, characterising technical and service-level performance of the framework, and providing a basis for the future direction of enhanced automated services.
While the objective here is to ultimately enable affordable driver-less cars, in the short term, this project aims to enable a number of demonstrable autonomous features in a test environment.
From a wider angle, today's land transportation systems claim about 1.3 million lives and 7 million injuries in road accidents, according to a recent report by CISCO. The increasing number of cars results in traffic jams costing about 90 billion of lost hours for the drivers and the passengers. In addition, transportation accounts for about 26% of the total greenhouse gas emission from human activities. While public transport can help, cars remain to be the desired means of transport according to a recent report by the Department of Transport in 2014.
These market forces in addition to the environmental, economic and social impacts of transport systems demand a timely and transformative research to rethink the automotive control systems and revolutionise vehicle design for future cars.
There have been two trends towards this objective in the past decade: in the one hand the research in autonomous systems, inspired by unmanned space vehicles, gave birth to driver-less concept cars such as Google robotic car; on the other hand, modern wireless communications enabled cars to talk to each other and the roadside infrastructures, resulting in the concept of connected cars. However, driver-less cars remain to be too expensive for commercial vehicles (Google's cars cost about £100,000 only for sensing equipment) and connected vehicles can offer little if not properly integrated into smart and autonomous features.
This ambitious research is defined by a number of world-class academic institutions and leading industrial partners to work with Jaguar Land Rover, a market leader in high end cars, to design and validate a framework that combines the power of connected vehicles concept with the notion of autonomous systems and build a novel platform for cost-effective deployment of autonomous features and ultimately realisation of connected and fully autonomous cars. This can be made possible thanks to modern wireless technologies and the power of cloud computing that allows sharing expensive computing resources (hence, reducing costs per vehicle) and provides access to information that are only available on the cloud.
To realise the ambition of the project, a number of key challenges in the areas of ultra-low-latency wireless technologies, cloud computing, distributed control systems, and human interaction issues will be addressed in this project. In addition, potential security threats will be identified and analysed to assess the potential risks for the public and reputational damage for car manufacturers should such technologies be commercialised. At the end of the project, the technical solutions will be integrated into a single framework and will be validated by example applications, characterising technical and service-level performance of the framework, and providing a basis for the future direction of enhanced automated services.
While the objective here is to ultimately enable affordable driver-less cars, in the short term, this project aims to enable a number of demonstrable autonomous features in a test environment.
Planned Impact
This proposal will create new opportunities in the area of smart and connected control which, in addition to the automotive and transport sectors, will address research challenges that will offer significant benefits to a number of adjacent national priorities/sectors including smart cities, telecommunications, insurance and smart manufacturing. With our partners, we are well placed to deliver those benefits [explained in "pathways to impact"].
Chris Holmes (JLR) explained: "[Smart and Connected Cars that increase] digital capability of vehicles is central to JLR's future product development...". Mike Bell, JLR Director of Global Connected Car, stated at a recent SNMT event that "[Connected Car Technology] is certainly one of our top priorities and we are making a significant investment....to make this a reality". To help deliver this vision, we address the challenge of creating a framework "with system flexibility, communication between many components and new ground-up architecture".
In addition to JLR, the TRL and TSC will be actively involved in the definition and validation of the research output creating a unique opportunity for the research to contribute to, e.g., the wider advancement of intelligent transport systems.
The proposal is also highly relevant to the mobile communications sector and, through the involvement of Surrey's 5G Innovation Centre and Telefonica, there are opportunities for the research to contribute to existing applications and to the development of new 5G standards. These will for example, support safety, maintenance and breakdown services, navigation, all of which are of interest to Telefonica.
Thales has identified autonomous vehicles as a future opportunity and has established business interests in UAVs/UASs in defence and civil applications. Thales foresees that the results of this research will enable them to develop new control architectures for these UAVs/UASs. Thales is also interested in how roadside infrastructure, complemented by backend cloud systems as proposed in this research, can play an even greater role in the operation of the UK's future road transport system.
Nokia HERE is a global navigation system provider for automotive industry with presence in 196 countries. HERE maps can be found in 4 out of 5 cars in North America and Europe with integrated in-dash navigation today. Dynamic HD/3D map is an integral part of the SCDC framework, the project use cases, and technology demonstrators. Nokia HERE will use the research outcomes to gain valuable insight to guide the future development of dynamic HD/3D maps.
Considering wider economic impacts, KPMG estimates that the benefits of connected autonomous cars will be "in the region of £51 billion per annum by 2030", with a potential to create about 320,000 jobs across the UK. Furthermore, a recent BIS report notes that from connected cars "a 5% reduction in travel time on roads could save businesses around £2.5bn" and that the global market for smart transport based on digital infrastructures will "be worth $4.5bn by 2018".
The general public will also benefit. KPMG estimates that by 2030, connected autonomous cars could save over 2,500 lives and prevent more than 25,000 accidents in the UK. There are also major quality of life benefits for elderly and disabled citizens as a result of increased mobility. Young adults are also anticipated to benefit from technologies that reduce cost of car insurance by reducing the risk of road accidents - a major concern reported by Association of British Insurers in 2012.
The KPMG report concludes that "Policy makers need to develop regulatory frameworks to allow the industry to flourish." The outcomes from this project will help policy makers gain an insight into the capabilities of the technology and will help in the development of regulatory frameworks. Telefonica will contribute to relevant Telecoms and wireless regulatory analysis in this area.
Chris Holmes (JLR) explained: "[Smart and Connected Cars that increase] digital capability of vehicles is central to JLR's future product development...". Mike Bell, JLR Director of Global Connected Car, stated at a recent SNMT event that "[Connected Car Technology] is certainly one of our top priorities and we are making a significant investment....to make this a reality". To help deliver this vision, we address the challenge of creating a framework "with system flexibility, communication between many components and new ground-up architecture".
In addition to JLR, the TRL and TSC will be actively involved in the definition and validation of the research output creating a unique opportunity for the research to contribute to, e.g., the wider advancement of intelligent transport systems.
The proposal is also highly relevant to the mobile communications sector and, through the involvement of Surrey's 5G Innovation Centre and Telefonica, there are opportunities for the research to contribute to existing applications and to the development of new 5G standards. These will for example, support safety, maintenance and breakdown services, navigation, all of which are of interest to Telefonica.
Thales has identified autonomous vehicles as a future opportunity and has established business interests in UAVs/UASs in defence and civil applications. Thales foresees that the results of this research will enable them to develop new control architectures for these UAVs/UASs. Thales is also interested in how roadside infrastructure, complemented by backend cloud systems as proposed in this research, can play an even greater role in the operation of the UK's future road transport system.
Nokia HERE is a global navigation system provider for automotive industry with presence in 196 countries. HERE maps can be found in 4 out of 5 cars in North America and Europe with integrated in-dash navigation today. Dynamic HD/3D map is an integral part of the SCDC framework, the project use cases, and technology demonstrators. Nokia HERE will use the research outcomes to gain valuable insight to guide the future development of dynamic HD/3D maps.
Considering wider economic impacts, KPMG estimates that the benefits of connected autonomous cars will be "in the region of £51 billion per annum by 2030", with a potential to create about 320,000 jobs across the UK. Furthermore, a recent BIS report notes that from connected cars "a 5% reduction in travel time on roads could save businesses around £2.5bn" and that the global market for smart transport based on digital infrastructures will "be worth $4.5bn by 2018".
The general public will also benefit. KPMG estimates that by 2030, connected autonomous cars could save over 2,500 lives and prevent more than 25,000 accidents in the UK. There are also major quality of life benefits for elderly and disabled citizens as a result of increased mobility. Young adults are also anticipated to benefit from technologies that reduce cost of car insurance by reducing the risk of road accidents - a major concern reported by Association of British Insurers in 2012.
The KPMG report concludes that "Policy makers need to develop regulatory frameworks to allow the industry to flourish." The outcomes from this project will help policy makers gain an insight into the capabilities of the technology and will help in the development of regulatory frameworks. Telefonica will contribute to relevant Telecoms and wireless regulatory analysis in this area.
Publications
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Goian H
(2019)
Popularity-Based Video Caching Techniques for Cache-Enabled Networks: A Survey
in IEEE Access
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Halder K
(2022)
Stability Analysis With LMI Based Distributed H 8 Controller for Vehicle Platooning Under Random Multiple Packet Drops
in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
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Halder K
(2022)
Distributed H 8 Controller Design and Robustness Analysis for Vehicle Platooning Under Random Packet Drop
in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
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Han C
(2019)
Adaptive Network Segmentation and Channel Allocation in Large-Scale V2X Communication Networks
in IEEE Transactions on Communications
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Jing H
(2022)
Integrity Monitoring of GNSS/INS Based Positioning Systems for Autonomous Vehicles: State-of-the-Art and Open Challenges
in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
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Katsaros K
(2017)
A cost-effective SCTP extension for hybrid vehicular networks
in Journal of Communications and Information Networks
Description | This project is a part of a multi-partner and multi-project programme called TASCC. The project has effectively started in mid-June 2016 and is fairly in early stages of the research. This ambitious research is to design and validate a framework that combines the power of connected vehicles concept with the notion of autonomous systems and build a novel platform for cost-effective deployment of autonomous features and ultimately realisation of connected and fully autonomous cars. This is expected to be possible thanks to modern wireless technologies and the power of cloud computing that allows sharing expensive computing resources (hence, reducing costs per vehicle) and provides access to information that is only available on the cloud. To realise the ambition of the project, the project has made significant progress in understanding the key requirements of the intended platform for autonomous driving systems through engagement of the industrial partners most notably Jaguar Land Rover. Since the last submission, the project has produced insight into the use of V2X and cloud information to improve safety and efficiency of autonomous driving systems. For example, novel risk models were introduced to improve the safety of high speed autonomous driving. The research has shed light into key aspects of low-latency and highly reliable communications that will be needed to supporting connected autonomous vehicles. |
Exploitation Route | The project has made substantial progress in establishing and understanding the underlying scientific principles related to the perception and control systems for connected automated driving systems. We have filed several patents with our industry sponsor, JLR, and some of the ideas from the project have been considered to be taken to next stages of evaluation for potential use in some of the future products. |
Sectors | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Transport,Other |
Description | In terms of knowledge transfer, the main focus has been on recruitments of excellent PDRAs and PhD students and ensuring that they work closely with the industrial collaborators. The research in this project has already started to influence a wider sector benefit, thanks to the close relationships with both the national 5G Innovation centre (5GIC) at Surrey and the National Automotive Innovation Centre at Warwick. The project has started generating valuable IPR, eg, two pending patent application, exclusively licensed to Jaguar Land Rover. Some of the knowledge produced in this research will be directly fed into new training programmes, such as the brand new MSc in Connected Autonomous Vehicles. |
Sector | Education,Transport |
Description | Centre for Doctoral Training on Future Mobility Technologies (Internal funding) |
Amount | £3,000,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | University of Warwick |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2019 |
End | 01/2028 |
Description | EPSRC IoTUK initiative |
Amount | £23,000,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 02/2016 |
End | 02/2019 |
Description | EPSRC Industrial CASE Allocations 2017 |
Amount | £110,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 07/2017 |
End | 10/2021 |
Description | Future AI and Robotics Hub for Space |
Amount | £6,932,511 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/R026092/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 11/2017 |
End | 11/2020 |
Description | Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) for localisation of Autonomous Vehicles |
Amount | £99,193 (GBP) |
Funding ID | 104500 |
Organisation | Innovate UK |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2018 |
End | 02/2019 |
Description | H2020-ART-2016-2017: AUTOMATED ROAD TRANSPORT |
Amount | € 36,000,000 (EUR) |
Organisation | European Commission |
Sector | Public |
Country | European Union (EU) |
Start | 04/2017 |
End | 04/2021 |
Description | Innovate UK Connected Autonomous Cars Call 2 |
Amount | £250,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Innova UK |
Sector | Private |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 04/2017 |
End | 12/2018 |
Description | Intelligent Cooperative Fault-Tolerant Vehicle Motion States Estimation for Connected Autonomous Cars |
Amount | £60,000 (GBP) |
Funding ID | 1949000 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2017 |
End | 09/2020 |
Description | Joint Supervision Programme in Saudi Arabia |
Amount | 520,000 ر.س. (SAR) |
Organisation | Government of Saudi Arabia |
Sector | Public |
Country | Saudi Arabia |
Start | 04/2018 |
End | 03/2021 |
Description | Open CAV Platfrom |
Amount | £1,200,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | High Value Manufacturing Catapult |
Sector | Private |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2018 |
End | 04/2021 |
Description | SkyBridge |
Amount | £2,921,893 (GBP) |
Funding ID | 94323-554658 |
Organisation | Innovate UK |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2017 |
End | 06/2019 |
Title | A CONTROLLER FOR A VEHICLE |
Description | The present disclosure relates to a controller for a vehicle and particularly, but not exclusively, to a controller for controlling a vehicle in a platoon. Aspects of the invention relate to a controller, to a vehicle and to a method. |
IP Reference | JLRP10636GB0 |
Protection | Patent application published |
Year Protection Granted | |
Licensed | No |
Impact | The controller has been patented by JLT due to its significant commercialisation potentials |
Title | A SYSTEM FOR A VEHICLE |
Description | The present disclosure relates to a system for a vehicle and particularly, but not exclusively, to a system for a vehicle operable in an autonomous mode. Aspects of the invention relate to a system, to a method, and to a vehicle. |
IP Reference | JLRP10467GB0 |
Protection | Patent application published |
Year Protection Granted | |
Licensed | No |
Impact | The present disclosure relates to a system for a vehicle and particularly, but not exclusively, to a system for a vehicle operable in an autonomous mode. Aspects of the invention relate to a system, to a method, and to a vehicle. |
Title | CONTROLLING VEHICLE PLATOONING |
Description | The present disclosure relates to controlling vehicle platooning. In particular, but not exclusively, it relates to controlling vehicle platooning of passenger vehicles. |
IP Reference | JLRP10363GB0 |
Protection | Patent application published |
Year Protection Granted | |
Licensed | No |
Impact | The patent has been filed by JLR due to significant commercialisation potentials |
Description | 10th October 2016 - a ENISA workshop on smart cars |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Professor Carsten Maple contributed to a working group for the European Agency ENISA to draft guidelines for securing future transport systems |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | 12th October 2016 - Presentation at Research Strategies: Europe 2030 and the next Framework Programme |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Professor Carsten Maple participated in an event that was designed to shape the future of research in cyber security. He gave a presentation on cyber security for connected and autonomous vehicles. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | 13th September 2016 - Meeting with Pinsent Masons |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Discussions on Pinsent Masons collaboration with PETRAS around the core themes of transport and mobility and privacy and trust |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | 14th September 2016 - TRL data workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Professor Carsten Maple attended a round table discussion around key challenges and current research in security and trust of intelligent transport systems. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | 20th July 2016 - Automated Vehicle Symposium in San Francisco |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Professor Carsten Maple attended the symposium contributing to discussions on cyber security of autonomous vehicles. In San Francisco |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | 24th-26th October 2016 - European Union Strategic Advice Mechanism Workshop on Secure Digital Identity for the digital single market in Europe |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Professor Carsten Maple acted as a high level advisor to the European Commission Scientific Advice Mechanism. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | 28th June 2016 - Cyber Security round table in Brussels |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Professor Carsten Maple visited Brussels for a day and attended a series of meetings with policy makers. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | 2nd IEEE UK & Ireland RAS Chapter Conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Invited speaker to promote trustworthy cyber-physical systems including future AI and robotics for space and autonomous vehicles |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | http://hamlyn.doc.ic.ac.uk/uk-ras/events/2nd-annual-ieee-uk-ireland-ras-conference |
Description | 5th April 2016 - Participation in the EPSRC workshop on remote sensing in challenging and extreme environments |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | This event was to set the scope of an upcoming EPSRC call. As a result of comments made by Professor Maple regarding the importance of trustworthiness and the planned activity PETRAS security and trustworthiness featured strongly in the call. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | 6th October 2016 - Microsoft Transform Conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Professor Carsten Maple gave a presentation on the importance of skills and current efforts to provide a suitable work force from higher education and research. 08.30 - 09.15 Registration and Refreshments 09.15 - 09.25 Opening remarks by Master of Ceremonies Andrew Spooner, Senior Technical Evangelist, Microsoft 09.25 - 09.55 Andrew Blake - Alan Turing Institute 09.55 - 10.25 Carsten Maple - Chairman of the Council of Professors and Heads of Computing 10.25 - 10.50 Robert Hogg & Rik Hepworth - Black Marble 10.50 - 11.10 Dan Marsh - International Alert 11.10 - 11.35 Break 11.35 - 11.55 Tech Demo - Martin Beeby - Technical Evangelist, Microsoft 11.55 - 12.25 Matthew Gould - Director General, Digital & Media Policy 12.30 - 13:00 Satya Nadella - CEO, Microsoft 13:00 - 13:05 Thanks and Wrap by MC 13.05 - 14.00 Lunch and Networking |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | 9th May 2016 - Cabinet Office Funded visit to the USA |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Professor Carsten Maple visited the USA for a week primarily visiting universities but also engaging with civil servants and industry. Interactions included UC Berkeley, Stanford University, MIT and Harvard. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Cyber Security Conference in Kuala Lumpur |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Professor Carsten Maple gave a talk on securing the Internet of Things - Opportunities and Challenges - and promoted the work of PETRAS. This led to a subsequent commonwealth application for doctoral study. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | ETSI - Transport, Mobile & 5G: a long term strategic approach Event |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Invited Talk: Case for Connected Autonomy |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Expert Group forum |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | I chaired an industrial European forum discussing the IoT-Connected Smart Cars and Vehicles in September 2019 in Berlin, Germany. The topic covered in the forum were: THE FUTURE OF CONNECTED VEHICLES THE EVOLUTION OF CONNECTED VEHICLE TECHNOLOGY ENHANCING CYBER SECURITY AND PRIVACY IN CONNECTED VEHICLES DATA AND CONNECTIVITY-ENABLING INNOVATIONS IN CONNECTED VEHICLES TELEMATICS FOR EVOVLING CONNECTED CARS NEW BUSINESS MODELS AND FUTURE TRENDS CONNECTED INFRASTRUCTURE OF THE FUTURE DEVELOPING END TO END ECOSYSTEM AND INTELLIGENT ROAD |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.infoholicresearch.com/event/2nd-annual-iot-connected-smart-cars-and-vehicles-forum/ |
Description | Expert Group workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | I attended an expert panel discussion organised by Huawei in Germany. Huawei was interested to identify the business and market opportunities for the company to be involved in CAV market. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Executive Panel Presentation: Connected and Autonomous Vehicles: From Vision to Reality |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | International Conference on Electrical Engineering |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Keynote presentation: Toward Connected Autonomous Cars |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Interview for CAV Technology |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | I was interviewed by The Guardian regarding CAV technologies |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.theguardian.com/product-innovation-with-henkel/2018/oct/02/smartphones-with-wheels-what-... |
Description | Interview for safety of CAVs |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | I was interviewed by Sputniknews radio to discuss the safety of CAVs and public concerns on this emerging technology |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://sptnkne.ws/Bd6p |
Description | Interviewed by BBC Surrey Radio |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | I was interviewed by BBC Surrey Radio to discuss the safety and future of connected and autonomous vehicles |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Invited Talk: Privacy and Trust in Connected and Automated Cars |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | This was an invited talk mainly focusing on the security of autonomous cars |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Invited Talk: Testing and Evaluation of Connected Automated Functions |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | This talk was given to mainly an industry audience |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Invited keynote at 3rd International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security (IoTBDS) 2018 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Invited keynote at 3rd International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security (IoTBDS) 2018; audience of industrial and academic practitioners and postgraduate students. Purpose was to communicate recent research relating to IoT. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | http://iotbds.org/ |
Description | Invited keynote at 9th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER) 2018 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Invited keynote at 9th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER) 2018; audience of industrial and academic practitioners and postgraduate students. Purpose was to communicate recent research relating to Cloud. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | http://closer.scitevents.org/ |
Description | Keynote Talk |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | This invited talk was given at 5th International Workshop on Next Generation Green Wireless Networks (Next-GWiN) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Keynote Talk: 5th Generation of Communication Technologies and Connected Autonomous Cars |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Keynote presentation in an international conference |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Leader on Internet of Moving Things Workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Prof Carsten Maple lead a PETRAS workshop on the Internet of Moving Things at the Digital Catapult attended by a range of academic and industry partners. Agenda for Internet of Moving Things Workshop 23rd of March 10:30 to 15:30 @ Digital Catapult, London - 10:30 - Introduction o (Professor Carsten Maple - 30 minutes) - 11:00 - Key Issues Discussion (All - 1.5 hours) o PETRAS has identified several core themes within the IoT but how do these relate to the Internet of Moving Things? ? Adoption and Acceptability ? Privacy and Trust ? Safety and Security ? Harnessing Economic Value ? Standards, Governance and Policy o This workshop aims to give all attendees the opportunity to put forward and share their views on each of these themes and how they relate to the industry they work in. - 12:30 - Lunch - 13:00 - Solutions workshop (All - 2 hours) o The morning workshop will have identified what the core challenges facing industry are. In the afternoon we will seek to examine those challenges and look towards collaborative solutions that attendees might take forwards with the PETRAS research hub in the future. - 15:00 - Wrap-Up and Closing o (Professor Carsten Maple - 30 minutes) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | PETRAS National Security Demonstrators Workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | 15th December 2017 - Dr Alisdair Ritchie, PETRAS Impact Champion, organised a workshop for a mix of colleagues from National Security and senior academic colleagues within PETRAS to discuss the future direction of the upcoming PETRAS Demonstrators. Outputs were an evolution in the process and direction of the demonstrators as well as input on resources which might be available to the demonstrators. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | PETRAS Transport and Mobility Demonstrator Workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | 11th January - Dr Alisdair Ritchie, PETRAS Impact Champion, attended a workshop on the future Transport and Mobility Demonstrator proposed for the PETRAS programme. The workshop was led by Professor Carsten Maple and included 14 attendees from academia and industry partners to PETRAS. The outputs were a clearer vision of what a future PETRAS Transport and Mobility demonstrator would look like for PETRAS. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | PETRAS conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | First international conference on Living in the IoT. 7 papers were presented and a session contribution by CM. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Presentation at RCUK Cloud Working Group event |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation on the CARMA project intended for a Cloud research/industry audience. Sparked post-presentation discussion as well as Twitter interest. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | https://cloud.ac.uk/workshops/nov2016/session-3b-lightning-talks-and-demos-part-1/carma/ |
Description | Prof Carsten Maple presented at PETRAS 4th URB Conference which was attended by Prof Tim Watson |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Presented "A potential Transport and mobility demonstrator to academic and industry partners associated with PETRAS at our User Research Board Conference" |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Prof Carsten Maple visited Ordinance Survey for the PETRAS Mobility and Transport Workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | This workshop has been organised by the Transport and Mobility stream within the PETRAS hub and is hosted by the UK's mapping agency Ordnance Survey. It will consider how to secure the connection to a moving device or system (such as a connected vehicle) in a reliable and secure way. This must, of course, be balanced against maintaining locational privacy through, for example, providing short-term linkability of locations while maintaining privacy across journeys. The workshop will present initial findings from the GEOSEC* project within PETRAS and explore use cases to understand different viewpoints on the issues from other domain perspectives. *GEOSEC is a three-year project, funded by Ordnance Survey at the University of Surrey's 5G Innovation Centre as a contribution to the PETRAS consortium. This workshop will aim to: (i) to enhance understanding of the range of different issues and challenges that face real world industry and to give attendees to the opportunity to collaborate with other genuine knowledge holders within the sector. (ii) to give attendees the opportunity to work with sector experts to dissect this information and develop solutions, or platforms from which solutions can be developed, that will benefit the sector as a whole. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Promotional Visit to the USA organised by FCO / SIN |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Over the course of a week Professor Carsten Maple visited Detroit, Chicago, San Diego and Los Angeles meeting with universities and industry. He was promoting UK Science including PETRAS and forging new partnerships; this resulted in a proposal to EPSRC and on other ongoing partnerships. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Published an article in The Conversation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | I have published an article in The Conversation Magazine (website) regarding how CAVs will change the future of our cities. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | http://theconversation.com/driverless-cars-are-forcing-cities-to-become-smart-94707 |
Description | Transport and Mobility Demonstrator Workshop at the Alan Turing Institute |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | 5th March 2018 - Professor Carsten Maple of the University of Warwick and Alisdair Ritchie, PETRAS Impact Champion, led a workshop which was designed to prepare the way for a bid to host a future transport and mobility workshop. Discussions focused around what projects could be brought into a demonstrator, how they could be brought together and what a final demonstrator would look like. A distributed model which would examine both national level strategic issues in transport and mobility and also technical advancements in PETRAS outputs demonstrated in a live environment is now being looked at as a preferred model. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | UK FCO mission to US - Expert Panel |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Spoke at a panel for SAC 2018. Involved presentation and vibrant Q&A afterwards. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.southernautocon.com/full-schedule/ |
Description | UKCRC/EPSRC workshop on future challenges 14-15/3/18 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | A workshop to define the major challenges for UK in ICT |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | White paper |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | I contributed to a white paper regarding the future of CAVs and current obstacles for exploitation of CAVs on public roads. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.publitek.com/resources/the-technological-evolution-of-autonomous-vehicles-separating-hyp... |
Description | Workshop on UK CAV Security Testing 19/3/18 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | A meeting to discuss the challenges and requirements of cyber security testing of CAVs |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | strategy board discussion |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Discussion on position of UK following the fatal accident by an Uber car in the US. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |