Speaker:

Mr. Owais Mateen

Systems Engineer,

General Motors with the ADAS

(Autonomous Driving and Active Safety) Organization &

Alumnus,

CIE Department at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals

Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

Abstract:

Research and Development on Autonomous Vehicles (AV) has been ongoing for a decade, if not more, to the point where several successful initiatives have entered the automotive market. Some great examples include Tesla's Autopilot, Google's Waymo, GM's Super Cruise and Cruise, and Mercedes-Benz's Intelligent Drive, among several others.

In this talk, we first look at a brief history of AV research and why AV research advanced the way it did. We then look at a generic Systems Design of an Autonomous Vehicle, followed by an understanding of the current state of this art, i.e. successful Autonomous Driving initiatives available now.

We finish by looking at the ethics and problems of AV, which leads to what future work in this field looks like.

Speaker Bio :

Mr. Owais Hamid is a Systems Engineer working at General Motors with the ADAS (Autonomous Driving and Active Safety) Organization. He completed his Bachelor's Degree in Systems Engineering from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran, Saudi Arabia in 2017, and his Master's Degree in Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo with the Socially Intelligent Robotics Research Lab in 2021.

His research interests include Mobile Robotics, Multi-agent Robotic Systems, Human-Robot Interaction, MLOps and Complex Systems