Panel Discussant
Date and Time: Wednesday, July 31, 2024: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: Indigo E
Jonathan Sprinkle
Professor, Vanderbilt University
Presentation Description
This presentation will point to previous and ongoing open-road research to make safer and smarter roadways. The talk will include discussions of energy-saving control for traffic wave dampening, modeling and analysis of adaptive cruise controllers, and a seminal 100-car open-road test that demonstrated an ability to field cutting-edge technology through vehicles on the road today. Ongoing work in open-road research provides evidence of using adaptive cruise control and smart infrastructure to improve effective compliance for traffic harmonization.
Speaker Biography
Jonathan Sprinkle is Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer science at Vanderbilt University. He joined Vanderbilt in 2021, where he is a member of the Institute for Software Integrated Systems, and serves on the Executive Council with responsibility for partnerships. In his career he has been a part of the following high-impact activities: Largest Open-road ACC test (2022), First Open-Road Demonstration of Adaptive Cruise Control string instabilities (2018), First traffic wave dampening with a single automated vehicle (2016), First model-based operation of an Autonomous Car by 4th Graders (2016), First model-based Full-sized Autonomous Car testbed (2012), Model-based Approaches in the DARPA Urban Challenge (2007), and First live Dogfighting of a full-scale UAV vs. an U.S. Air Force F-15 Piloted Jet (2004). Prior to joining Vanderbilt, he was the Litton Industries John M. Leonis Distinguished Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Arizona, and the Interim Director of the Transportation Research Institute. In 2020 he was named a Distinguished Scholar of the University of Arizona. From 2017-2019 he served as a Program Director in Cyber-Physical Systems and Smart & Connected Communities at the National Science Foundation in the CISE Directorate. In 2013 he received the NSF CAREER award.
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