Recent Development of USDOT’s CDA Program: CARMA Ecosystem and its Cooperative Perception Feature

Date and Time: Wednesday, July 20: 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Royal AB

Yingyan Lou

Senior Smart Transportation Research Scientist, Leidos, Inc.

PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION

The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) under USDOT conducts research on cooperative driving automation (CDA) with the goal of advancing transportation systems management and operations (TSMO) strategies. The CDA Program, a network of open source software (the CARMA Ecosystem) and support services focused on enhancing digital infrastructure, enables testing and evaluation of emerging CDA capabilities. Cooperative perception (CP) refers to a road entity’s ability to share locally perceived data with other vehicles and roadside infrastructure. This presentation will provide an overview of the USDOT's CDA Program, the CARMA Ecosystem, CP applications in CDA environments, and the proof-of-concept CP feature recently developed and tested in the CARMA
Ecosystem.

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Yingyan Lou is a Senior Smart Transportation Research Scientist at the USDOT Saxton Transportation Operations Laboratory (STOL), a national connected and automated vehicle research laboratory operated by Leidos, Inc. Dr. Lou brings to Leidos and the STOL 17 years of interdisciplinary research experience in the areas of transportation systems modeling and analysis, intelligent transportation systems, and cooperative driving automation (CDA). Her work at STOL includes the design and development of the cooperative perception feature of the CARMA (Cooperative Automation Research Mobility Applications) Ecosystem, CDA applications and use cases for transportation systems management and operations (TSMO), and CARMA Ecosystem system architecture and interfaces. Before joining Leidos, Dr. Lou was an associate professor at Arizona State University. During her tenure in academia, Dr. Lou has managed 29 funded research projects supported by various federal and state agencies. Her research has led to 33 journal publications, one book chapter, and 27 peer-reviewed conference articles.

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