Place and Schedule

There will be four workshops and the workshops will take place on June 12, 2007 in the Gumussuyu, Taksim campus of Istanbul Technical University, within walking distance of the symposium venue, Hilton Hotel (approximately ten minutes on foot or take a taxi that may take five minutes and cost around three Euros).

The workshop address is:

ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY, MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT, INONU CADDESI, #87, GUMUSSUYU, ISTANBUL

(In Turkish) Istanbul Teknik Universitesi, Makina Fakultesi, Gumussuyu Kampusu, No: 87, Gumussuyu, Istanbul.

Registered attendees may switch between the workshops and tutorial in paralel.

Following the success of the First and Second V2VCOM, this one-day workshop intends to bring together researchers, professionals, and practitioners to discuss and address recent developments and challenges in deploying vehicle-to-vehicle and infrastructure-to-vehicle networking technologies, as well as their subsequent applications.

OPENING AND WELCOME 9:00-9:05

Onur Altintas and Wai Chen, Workshop Chairs

KEYNOTE SPEECH 9:05-9:30

Open Network for Vehicle Communication

Prof. Tadao Saito, CTO and Chief Scientist, Toyota InfoTechnology Center

MORNING SESSION 9:30-12:15

Intersection Safety with V2I Communication in the EC Project INTERSAFE

Bernd Roessler and Kay Ch.Fuerstenberg, IBEO Automobile Sensor GmbH, Germany

Field Experiments on the Workload of the Inter-Vehicle Communication Network

Shin Kato, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan

Sadayuki Tsugawa, Meijo University, Japan

Satoshi Abe, Satoru Hoshina, Masaharu Hamaguchi, and Kiyohito Tokuda

Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd, Japan

Break 10:15-10:40

Invited Talk: The OSU V2V Testbed and Simulator: Past, Present and Future

Prof. Umit Ozguner, Ohio State University, USA

Feasibility Study of Using Mobile Gateways in Public Transportation Vehicles for ITS Applications

Kun-chan Lan, National Cheng Kung University,Taiwan

Salil Kanhere, Gunadi Setiwan, Samuel Iskandar and Ze Ming Wu, University of New South Wales, Australia

FreeSim - A V2V and V2R Freeway Traffic Simulator

Jeffrey Miller and Ellis Horowitz, University of Southern California, USA

Transmission Performance Evaluation of a Roadside-to-Vehicle Communication

System with Antenna Beam Switching

Osamu Maeshima, Shengwei Cai, Teruhiko Honda, Toyota Info Technology Center Co., Ltd, Japan

Hirofumi Urayama, Toyota Industries Corporation, Japan

Akinori Taira, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan

LUNCH 12:15-13:15

AFTERNOON SESSION 13:15-17:30

Invited Talk: CALM: Current Status of the ISO Standard for Long and Medium Range ITS communications

Prof. Keisuke Uehara, Keio University, Japan

Online Games on Wheels: Fast Game Event Delivery in Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks

Claudio E. Palazzi, Marco Roccetti, Stefano Ferretti, Universita di Bologna, Italy

Giovanni Pau, and Mario Gerla, UCLA, USA

Embedded Multicasting with Vehicle Local Peer Group for Efficient Vehicle

Communications

Wai Chen and John Lee, Telcordia Technologies, USA;

Ryokichi Onishi, Toyota InfoTechnology Center USA;

Toshiro Hikita, Toyota InfoTechnology Center Co., Ltd, Japan

Information Propagation Probability on Intersections in VANETS

Andreas Xeros, Maria Andreou, Andreas Pitsillides and Marios Lestas, Cyprus University, Cyprus

Security Framework for Vehicular Applications

Matthias Gerlach, Horst Rechner, Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication

Systems (FOKUS), Germany

Tim Leinmuller, DaimlerChrysler AG, Group Research and Advanced Engineering

Break 15:10-15:40

Invited Talk: VII Activities in the U.S.

Richard Bishop, Bishop Consulting, USA

A Feasibility Study on Disseminating Spatio-temporal Information via Vehicular

Ad-hoc Networks

Bo Xu and Ouri Wolfson, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Channah Naiman, Pirouette Software, USA;

Naphtali D. Rishe, Florida International University, USA;

R. Michael Tanner, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA;

WORK-IN-PROGRESS SESSION

Clustering Approach to Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication Applications

Omer Kayis and Tankut Acarman, Galatasaray University, Turkey

A Construction Method of Road-Static Network with Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks

Tsuneomi Haruna, Yojiro Okada, Hiroshi Shigeno, Keio University, Japan

Creation and Management Method of a Secure Connection on MANET Using

Multi-hop Routing Protocols

Masato Oguchi and Mio Kamada, Ochanomizu University, Japan

CDMA/OFDM based Radio Access for Vehicle Multi-Hop Network

Hyun Seo Oh, Hyun Kyun Choi, Sang In Kim & Keon Kook Lee, ETRI, South Korea

World Tour: Intelligent Vehicle Product and Research Trends

Part I: Product Trends

Intelligent vehicle products are entering the market at an increasingly rapid rate. Whats on the market and how are the systems faring in terms of market uptake and public acceptance. Do the systems work in the real world? What new products are in the wings? This portion of the tutorial will give researchers an understanding of how automotive engineers transform research results into products.

Part II: Research Trends

Intelligent vehicle R&D is booming worldwide, based on both government and corporate funding. We are moving into a world of sensor fusion, shifting from active sensing to intelligent perception, and evolving into human relevant intelligent behaviors. Research programs in Europe are driving this process, as is the DARPA Urban Challenge activity in the USA. In addition to autonomous systems, the next big thing is cooperative vehicle systems based on wireless communications. Extensive programs are underway in the USA, Europe, and Japan, such as VII, CVIS, SafeSpot, and SmartWay. The tutorial will examine the major programs and projects and research results to date to give the participant a thorough understanding of the major trends and technical challenges in each of these domains.

Richard Bishop, founder of Bishop Consulting, supports clients internationally in research and business development within the intelligent vehicles arena - focusing on partnership development, intelligent vehicle applications, industry trend analysis, and business strategy. Clients include federal government agencies, vehicle manufacturers, suppliers, research laboratories, state DOTs, and technology firms worldwide. He also lectures as an expert in intelligent vehicle systems. BC's focus includes passenger cars, heavy trucks, buses, and military vehicles. Recent clients have included DaimlerChrysler, Nissan, Intermap Technologies, Southwest Research Institute, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Mr. Bishop is team leader of Team-LUX for the DARPA Urban Challenge. Team-LUX is demonstrating the capabilities of advanced laser scanner technology for intelligent perception and autonomous driving. BC also publishes www.IVsource.net, the only website focusing exclusively on coverage of intelligent vehicle developments. During 1991-1997, Mr. Bishop managed USDOTs program in vehicle-highway automation R&D, establishing the National Automated Highway System Consortium. The Consortiums activities culminated with Demo 97 in San Diego, which successfully showcased automated vehicle technology to the world. During this time, he also established the International Task Force on Vehicle-Highway Automation and continues as chairman. Previously, Mr. Bishop held positions as a radio engineer, systems engineer, and engineering manager with U.S. Department of Defense. He holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Auburn University and a M.S. Technical Management from Johns Hopkins University. He is currently enrolled in the Applied Healing Arts master's degree program at the TAI-SOPHIA Institute. Mr. Bishop published his first book entitled Intelligent Vehicle Technology and Trends (Artech House) in 2005. He is currently working on a second book in the area of Driver Awareness Systems.

This workshop will explore how all the different elements from lenses to imagers to signal processing come together to make intelligent cameras for mass market cars. Hands on exposure to real hardware and software will allow the attendees to see the ease with which kernels can be assembled and an application built on a high performance platform.

• Class Welcome 13:15-13:25
• Vision applications now and future, videos and hardware 13:25-13:45
• Vision system overview 13:45-14:15
• Optics 14:15-15:00
  • Impact of lens performance parameters.
  • Imager sensitivity affects on downstream analysis.
  • Criticality of imager dynamic range and its downstream impact.
  • The impact of rapidly changing scene illumination.
  • Lab demonstration: dynamic range control under different lighting conditions
• Break 15:00-15:10
• Image pre-processing 15:10-15:30
• Getting the image ready for analysis, thresholding, sub-sampling, contrasting, and other filters.
• Lab demonstration: image acquisition and effects of pre-processing choices on performance.
• Image processing 15:30-16:30
• Data flow through a typical system.
• Effects of data flow choices on cycle performance.
• Building up an application with Kernels (primitives) and a Vision System Support Library.
• Lab demonstration: Hardware operation, building up an application with kernels in simple steps.
• Decision Making 16:30-16:45
• Outputting the decision- Communications 16:45-17:00
• Summary 17:00-17:20
• Review of how the sub-systems come together for efficient vision processing.
• Q&A

This is the last of the three annual workshops in automotive control being organized by the European Union (EU) Framework Programme 6 (FP6) funded AUTOCOM Automotive Controls and Mechatronics Research Center at Istanbul Technical University. The main aim of the workshop is to gather the leading experts in the Hybrid Vehicle Modeling and Control area to discuss the latest developments in an atmosphere suitable for networking and exchange of ideas. The latest results in this area will be disseminated to the public through this workshop. A special session in the workshop will be organized to discuss and exploit future RTD (research and technology development) cooperation in the area of hybrid vehicle modeling and control. Representatives from the EU FP6 office responsible for SustDev priority area will also be invited to present information on funding opportunities. While the first priority will be given to papers on on Hybrid Vehicle Modeling and Control, papers on all sub disciplines of automotive control are welcome. The regular technical program will be complemented with several invited talks.

Opening and Welcome 13:15-13:20

Tankut Acarman, Workshop Chair

Keynote Speech13:20-13:45

R&D in Hybrid Electric Vehicle Technology and its projection into EU-FP7

Prof. Levent Guvenc, ITU-MEKAR and AUTOCOM Director

Upgrading Heavy Duty Truck Performance and Fuel Economy through Hybridization 13:45-14:10

Kemal Caliskan, Evren Ozatay, A.Murat Yildirim, Y.Samim Unlusoy

Modelling of a Series Hybrid Electric Vehicle 14:10-14:35

Peter Bauer, Zsuzsa Preitl, Peter Gaspar, Zoltan Szabo, Jozsef Bokor

Component Sizing in Hybrid Electric Vehicle Design using Optimization and Design of Experiments Techniques 14:35-15:00

Ali Boyali, Tankut Acarman, Levent Guvenc

Coffee Break 15:00- 15:30

Energy Flow Modeling Method for Simulation of a Series-Parallel Hybrid Electrical Vehicle 15:30-15:55

R.N.Tuncay, O.Ustun, C.Gokce, M.Yilmaz

Evaluation of Power Assist and Soft Hybrid Power Management Strategies for a Series Hybrid Electric Vehicle through Modeling 15:55-16:20

Okan Tur, R. Nejat Tuncay

Propulsion System Design of a Hybrid Electric Vehicle 16:20-16:45

Volkan Sezer, Ismail Meric Can Uygan, Ahu Ece Hartavi, Tankut Acarman, Levent Guvenc

Development of Hybrid Braking Algorithm for Electric/Hybrid Electric Vehicles 16:45-17:10

Ahu Ece Hartavi, Ismail Meric Can Uygan, Volkan Sezer, Tankut Acarman, Levent Guvenc