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V-Charge Summer School

March 30, 2014 in News by admin

DEADLINE EXPIRED

“The V-Charge Summer School: Perception and Planning for Autonomous Driving”
July 7th – July 10th, 2014
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich)


The EU V-Charge project will host a summer school on fully automated driving.
The summer school will give a compact introduction to the field of fully automated driving, offer technical sessions that will provide
hands-on experience with state-of-the-art techniques, and present invited talks to frame the open research questions in the field.

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CVG releases an open source library for calibration of multi-camera systems

September 29, 2013 in ETHZ-CVG, News by admin


Our partners at the ETH Zurich Computer Vision and Geometry lab have released the calibration pipeline that we use in V-Charge. The code is open source and it should work for calibrating the intrinsics and extrinsics of any multi-camera system.

View the overview webpage here: https://people.inf.ethz.ch/hengli/camodocal/

Get the code on github: https://github.com/hengli/camodocal

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V-Charge presentations at the Intelligent Vehicles Symposium

June 14, 2013 in News by admin

We are pleased to announce that we have four papers to present at the Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV).

Peter Muehfellner will present our work on multi-camera localization in the Workshop on Environment Perception and Navigation for Intelligent Vehicles on Sunday, June 23, 2013 (9:15 am).

Ulrich Schwesinger will present our work on system-compliant partial-motion planning, and Jerome Maye will present our work on self-supervised full-system calibration. Both posters will appear on Monday, June 24, 2013 in the afternoon session (14:40-16:10).

Finally, Paul Furgale will give an overview talk about the V-Charge project at 13:40 on Tuesday, June 25, 2013. Expect to see a lot of videos!

If you are at IV as well, please come and say hello!

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Julian Timpner wins DRIVE-E prize

March 15, 2013 in News by admin

It is our pleasure to announce that Julian Timpner received the DRIVE-E prize for his master thesis, which defines major architectural components of V-Charge-WP5. DRIVE-E is awarded by BMBF, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research together with the Fraunhofer Society to support emerging scientists focusing on electric mobility. (image credit: https://www.drive-e.org/studienpreis/drive-e-studienpreis-2013)

Further information:
(in german)
DRIVE-E: https://www.drive-e.org/

BMBF announcement:
https://www.bmbf.de/press/3425.php?pk_campaign=07-03-2013-+Newsletter+-+BMBF+-+Pressemitteilungen&pk_kwd=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bmbf.de%2Fpress%2F3425.php

(shorter english information about DRIVE-E)
https://www.bmbf.de/en/14015.php

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Internal Demo 1 in Zurich

March 15, 2013 in News by admin

Our internal demo on January 22, 2013 was a complete success! More details will follow here shortly.

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First Integration Week

March 15, 2013 in Meeting, News by admin

On April 16-20, 2012 the V-Charge first Integration Week took place. The main tasks of the week was the integration of systems so far developed, the acquisition of new sensor data, and preliminary system testing.

These activities were performed on two test vehicles dubbed KERMIT and GROBI.

The V-Charge team and the two experimental vehicles.

Wednesday 18

On April 18the the activities were mainly focused on data acquisition.  Different scenarios were used for data acquisition with other vehicles or pedestrians. Sequences were taken in controlled environment (VW parking facility) and  in the Wolfsburg urban scenario up to nearly 600 Gbytes including cameras, GPS and other sensors.

Closeups of some cameras on the GROBI vehicle.

Thursday 19

The acquired sequences have been preliminary inspected in order to evaluate if they fit suitable scenario cases. VW staff demonstrated the x-by-wire system using a joystick and the e-stop safety capabilities.

Path Planning Demo.

 

Friday 20

On the last day, besides the technical committee meeting, a preliminary test for automatic driving was performed using trajectory following and the path planner.

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Kermit & Grobi Training

June 5, 2012 in News by admin

The purpose of the training is to equip team members likely to work directly on the test vehicles with all the necessary skills.

The training takes place at MLC in Wolfsburg on june 12-14, 2012

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First Integration Week Planning

June 5, 2012 in Meeting, News by admin

The first integration week is planned for april 16-21 in Wolfsburg!

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Progress Meeting

November 22, 2011 in Meeting, News by admin

A progress meeting is planned in Schwieberdingen, Germany from November, 30th to December, 1st 2011.

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Kick-off meeting

June 6, 2011 in Meeting, News by admin

V-Charge kick-off meeting is taking place on 28-29-30 June at ETH Zurich.