Abstract: The presentation will describe the latest challenge in
autonomous driving: a 13,000 km test from Parma, Italy, to
Shanghai, China, during summer 2010. Four electric and
driverless vehicles marked the history in autonomous driving and
vehicular robotics after successfully reaching Shanghai after 3
months of automatic operation, from Europe to Asia.
The talk will describe the vehicles technical details, the
travel experience of this 13,000 km unique trip in history, and
the results obtained by the analysis of the whole data set
acquired during the trip.
The presentation will also feature some considerations on future
trends in vehicular robotics and driverless vehicles.

Bio: Dr. Alberto Broggi is a professor of Computer Engineering at the
University of Parma in Italy, and CEO of the VisLab spinoff
company.
As a pioneer of machine vision applied to driverless cars and
unmanned vehicles, he is the principal investigator of many
projects involving autonomous vehicles, like the ARGO prototype
vehicle, the TerraMax entry at the DARPA Grand Challenge and
Urban Challenge, and BRAiVE. Under his leadership VisLab
organized the first intercontinental driverless trip in history,
named VIAC - VisLab Intercontinental Autonomous Challenge.
He acted as Editor in Chief of the IEEE Trans on Intelligent
Transportation Systems from 2004 to 2008. For the term 2010-2011
he served the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems
Society as President, and in 2012 as Past-President.