Paper Presentation
Technological Challenges in Autonomous Driving
Invited Talk
AK Prakash
Hella Automotive Limited, Pune
Pune, Maharastra
ak.prakash@iiits.in
ABSTRACT
Automotive world is quickly moving towards another revo-
lution of driverless cars. To realize this dream in large scale
will see lots of challenges in terms of product development.
In this talk, I would like to address different problems which
automotive industry will have to face to make this a reality.
Today automotive product development and testing has ma-
tured enough to provide a reliable product to end customer.
Autonomous driving will introduce complex algorithms to
take actuation decision based on various sensors inputs. Man-
aging these complex algorithms seamlessly and testing to
ensure robustness will introduce new development process
steps and tools. Also, the demand from the electronics to
process these algorithms in real time with less power con-
sumption will arise. Another important aspect would be to
meet automotive grade and safety level. A glance at these
challenges and way to overcome them will be discussed.
CCS CONCEPTS
• Computing methodologies → Machine learning;
ACM Reference Format:
Dr. AK Prakash and Hrishikesh Venkataraman. 2018. Technological
challenges in Autonomous Driving: Invited Talk . In 1st Interna-
tional Workshop on Communication and Computing in Connected
Vehicles and Platooning (C3VP ’18), October 29, 2018, New Delhi, India.
ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1 page. https://doi.org/10.1145/3267195.
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C3VP’18, October 29, 2018, New Delhi, India
Hrishikesh Venkataraman
Smart Transportation Research Group
Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT),
Sri City, AP, India - 517646
hvraman@iiits.in
1 BRIEF BIO OF THE SPEAKER’S
Dr. Prakash completed his Masters from College of Engi-
neering, Pune and his PhD from IIT Bombay. Dr. Prakash
was a faculty for nearly 7 years in Ministry of Defence, In-
dia. After that, he worked as Manager-Embedded Systems at
CMC Limited for nearly 3 years. Subsequently, he worked as
Specialist Engineering in Eaton Technologies. Currently, he
heads the Advanced Engineering Lab in Hella Automotive
where he drives the evolution of ADAS; linking different
technologies such as V2X communication, image and video
processing, machine learning, etc. He has expansive interest
in research collaboration and taking industrial research to
academia and to society at large. Currently, he has a research
project with IIIT Sri City on night vision and obstacle detec-
tion using Infra-red cameras.
Dr. Hrishikesh Venkataraman is an Associate Profes-
sor and also Head - Information Technology Systems (ITS) at
Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Sricity, In-
dia Dr. Venkataraman did his MTech from IIT Kanpur in 2004
and his PhD from Bremen, Germany in 2007. He has been a
recipient of both German DAAD fellowship (2003-04) and
Irish Research Council Fellowship (2008-10). He is currently
a PI of two projects in the area of smart transportation and
has been a PI of three completed projects. He has more than
50 international publications in ACM, Elsevier, IET, IEEE,
Springer, has edited 3 books and also has a granted patent.
Dr. Venkataraman has completed co-supervision of 2 PhD
students and is currently supervising 3 PhD students.