CARMA Platform Enabled Cooperative Driving Automation for Traffic Incident Management
Date and Time: Wednesday, July 20: 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Garden 1-3

Michael McConnell
Software Engineer and CARMA Platform Sensing and Perception Lead, Leidos
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION
Traffic incident responses involving emergency responders pose increased safety risks for responders and negative impacts on traffic flow. Vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications can be used to enable Cooperative Driving Automation (CDA) behaviors to mitigate the impacts of such events. The Open Source CARMA Platform was used in a proof-of-concept demonstration this past summer to demonstrate CDA support for the move-over-law whereby a CARMA Platform equipped automated vehicle was notified via a V2X message of an upcoming TIM event by a V2X enabled emergency response vehicle located at the event. The automated vehicle responded to the message by moving into an adjacent lane thereby increasing the safety margins around the incident. This talk will discuss the technical approach to this demonstration and insights for future wide scale deployment of such technology.
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY
Mr. McConnell is a Software Engineer with Leidos working at the Saxton Transportations Operations Laboratory (STOL). With his background in Robotics Engineering he has worked extensively on the CARMA Platform Cooperative Driving Automation (CDA) system. CARMA Platform is a proof of concept research platform with an extensible architecture to enable implementation of CDA use cases for demonstration and evaluation. Mr. McConnell is one of the systems primary architects and the sensing and perception team lead. He has directly supported the implementation of many use cases using the CARMA Platform including emergency response, vehicle platooning, cooperative ramp merge, eco-approach and departure at signalized intersections and others. He is currently working on data fusion approaches for cooperative perception at signalized intersections.
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CARMA Platform Enabled Cooperative Driving Automation for Traffic Incident Management
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