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9:00 – 9:15 Opening

Keynote Talk I

9:15 – 10:00 Key Technologies for Intelligent and Safer Cars - from Motion Estimation to Predictive Motion Planning
Roland Siegwart (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break

Session S1: Localization and Perception

10:30 – 10:50 Robust Feature Detection and Matching for Vehicle Localization in Uncharted Environments
Annalisa Milella, Bruno Nardelli, Donato Di Paola, and Grazia Cicirelli (INRC,
Italy) Video

10:50 – 11:10 Exploring Sensor Fusion Schemes on Pedestrian Detection in Urban Scenarios
Cristiano Premebida, Oswaldo Ludwig, Jackson Matsuura and Urbano Nunes (ISR/Univ. Coimbra, Portugal)

11:30 – 11:50 On the fly localization and mapping using a 360° Field-of-View Microwave Radar Sensor
Damien Vivet, Paul Checchin and Roland Chapuis (LASMEA, France) Video 1 Video 2 Video 3

11:50 – 12:10 Improving the Performance of Out-of-order Sigma-point Kalman Filters for Joint Localization by Multiple UAVs
Pedro DeLima, Dimitri Zarzhitsky, and Daniel Pack (US Air Force Academy, USA)

12:10 – 14:00 Lunch

Session S2: Navigation an Control

14:00 – 14:20 Towards a Safe, Low-Cost, Intelligent Wheelchair
Aniket Murarka, Shilpa Gulati (Univ. Texas at Austin, USA), Patrick Beeson (TRACLabs, USA), and Benjamin Kuipers (Univ. Michigan, USA)

14:20 – 14:40 A Cooperative Overtaking Assistance System
Rafael Toledo-Moreo, José Santa and Miguel Zamora-Izquierdo (Univ. Murcia, Spain)

14:40 – 15:00 Autonomous Offroad Navigation Under Poor GPS Conditions
T. Luettel, M. Himmelsbach, F. V. Hundelshausen, M. Manz, A. Mueller and H.-J.Wuensche (Univ. Bundeswehr Munich, Germany)

15:00 – 15:20 A Hybrid Randomized/Nonlinear Programming Technique for Small Aerial Vehicle Trajectory Planning in 3D
Patrick M. Bouffard (Univ. California, Berkeley, USA) and Steven L. Waslander (Univ. Waterloo, Canada)

15:20 – 16:00 Coffe Break

Session S3: Multiple Vehicles/Robots - Planning

16:00 – 16:20 Towards the Use of a Team of USVs for Civilian Harbour Protection: Real Time Path Planning with Avoidance of Multiple Moving Obstacles
Enrico Simetti, Alessio Turetta, Giuseppe Casalino (Univ. Genova, Italy), Enrico Storti and Matteo Cresta (Selex Sistemi Integrati, Italy) Video

16:20 – 16:40 Distributed Coverage Control for a Multi-Robot Team in a Non-Convex Environment
Alessandro Renzaglia and Agostino Martinelli (INRIA Rhône-Alpes, Grenoble, France)

Keynote Talk II

16:40 – 17:20 Positioning Integrity for Intelligent Vehicles
Philippe Bonnifait (Univ. Compiègne, France)

17:20 Closing