Agenda 5th December 2023
08:30 to 08:45 a.m.
Welcome
10:00 to 10:30 a.m.
Coffee break & open discussion
10:30 to 11:30 a.m.
Symbiotic and co-evolutional safety for human collaborative mobility
12:30 to 01:30 p.m.
Lunch Break
03:45 to 04:15 p.m.
Coffee break & open discussion
06:00 p.m.
Evening Event - Get together
Agenda 5th December 2023
Keynote | Referent | Dr. Riccardo Mariani
NVIDIA
08:45 - 09:30
End to End Safety in the Artificial Intelligence era
09:30 - 10:00
Discussion
Dr. Riccardo Mariani is widely recognized as an expert in functional safety. In his current role as VP of Industry Safety at NVIDIA, he is responsible for developing cohesive safety strategies and cross-segment safety processes, architecture, and products that can leveraged across NVIDIA’s AI-based hardware and software platforms. Prior to NVIDIA, he was chief functional safety technologist at Intel Corporation, and CTO of Yogitech, an industry leader in functional safety technologies, of which he was co-founder. A prolific author and respected inventor in the functional safety field, Mariani has contributed to multiple industry standards efforts throughout his career: currently he is co-convenor of IEC 61508-1/2, project leader of ISO/IEC TR 5469 on AI safety and sub-team lead of ISO/PAS 8800. He is also chair of the IEEE Functional Safety Standards Committee (FSSC). He is the recipient of the 2021 Ron Waxman DASC Meritorious Service Award. He holds a bachelor’s degree in electronic engineering and a Ph.D. in microelectronics from the University of Pisa in Italy.
End to End Safety in the Artificial Intelligence era
Safety can benefit from Artificial Intelligence in different ways: this talk will describe opportunities, challenges and solutions in using AI for predictive, proactive and reactive safety.It will also provide an overview of ongoing standardization activities on AI safety.
Referent | Dr. Takehito Ogata
Hitachi Europe GmbH
10:30 - 11:00
Symbiotic and co-evolutional safety for human collaborative mobility
11:00 - 11:30
Discussion
Dr. Takehito Ogata is a senior researcher at Autonomy and Circularity Laboratory, European R&D centre, Hitachi Europe GmbH. He joined Hitachi R&D group in 2007. His research activity mainly contributed to automotive domain, in the field of Advanced Driver Assistance System, Autonomous Parking System and Autonomous Driving System. Since 2021 he has started to work at the R&D centre of Hitachi Europe. His current work is related to autonomous control and safety for mobilities including automotive, railways and industrial robots.
Symbiotic and co-evolutional safety for human collaborative mobility
Autonomous control technologies are being evolved and start to be applied to industrial applications such as automotive domain or smart logistics domain, etc. When autonomous control systems are used in an open environment where humans exist, a safety design needs to be created corresponding to evolutions and changes in the behavior of humans and machines in accordance with an open changing environment. In this talk, we will introduce Hitachi’s safety research activities on human-machine collaboration for open environment, including our success collaboration with Fraunhofer Gesellschaft.
Referent | Prof. Dr. Martin Ruskowski
SmartFactory-KL
11:30-12:00
Smartfactory
12:00-12:30
Discussion
Prof. Dr. Martin Ruskowski is a leading expert for Robotics and Industry 4.0. Since 2017 he is Professor at the Rheinland-Pfälzische Technischen Universität Kaiserlautern-Landau and Scientific Director of the Innovative Factory Systems (IFS) department at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). He has also been Chairman of the Board of Directors of SmartFactory-KL since 2019.
Prof. Ruskowski studied Electrical Engineering in Hannover and did his PhD in Mechanical Engineering. After holding several management positions in industry, he joined the technology group KUKA as Vice President in 2015 and was responsible for the global Research and Development division in the KUKA Industries Group until his move to Kaiserslautern.
SmartFactory
Safety is key for the realization of the production of the future. SmartFactory-KL, a non-profit organization gathering 40 members from industry and research, is actively working on implementing safety solutions using AI elements and administrative shells. A corresponding use-case is implemented in the SmartFactory-KL demonstrator-ecosystem in Kaiserlautern and tested in a realistic industrial production environment. Prof. Martin Ruskowski will introduce Smartfactory-KL, current projects and also give an outlook on the emerging technological developments we can expect on the shopfloor within the next decade.
Keynote | Referent | Prof. Philip Koopman
Carnegie Mellon University
01:30 - 02:15
Lessons from autonomous ground vehicle safety
02:15 - 02:45
Discussion
Prof. Philip Koopman is an internationally recognized expert on Autonomous Vehicle (AV) safety whose work in that area spans over 25 years. He is also actively involved with AV policy and standards as well as more general embedded system design and software quality. His pioneering research work includes software robustness testing and run time monitoring of autonomous systems to identify how they break and how to fix them. He has extensive experience in software safety and software quality across numerous transportation, industrial, and defense application domains including conventional automotive software and hardware systems. He was the principal technical contributor to the UL 4600 standard for autonomous system safety issued in 2020. He is a faculty member of the Carnegie Mellon University ECE department where he teaches software skills for mission-critical systems. In 2018 he was awarded the highly selective IEEE-SSIT Carl Barus Award for outstanding service in the public interest for his work in promoting automotive computer-based system safety. In 2022 he was named to the National Safety Council's Mobility Safety Advisory Group. He is the author of the books: Better Embedded System Software (2010), How Safe is Safe Enough: measuring and predicting autonomous vehicle safety (2022), and The UL 4600 Guidebook (2022).
Lessons from autonomous ground vehicle safety
The automotive industry has faced significant challenges in their journey to automate driving. These include addressing the issue of automation complacency in drivers who are supposed to be monitoring boring automated tasks, and validating the performance of machine learning-based technology for infrequent but high consequence events. This talk provides an overview of some of the lessons learned that might apply to other industries.
Referent | Dr. Arne Nordmann
Neura Robotics GmbH
02:45 - 03:15
AI and Safety in Cognitive Robotics
03:15 - 03:45
Discussion
Dr. Arne Nordmann did his Ph.D. in 2015 in model-driven engineering for collaborative robots, industrial robots, and mobile robots. He then joined Bosch Corporate Research, continuing to work on architectures for software-intensive safety-critical systems, including highly-automated driving and robotics. Since May 2022, he is Head of Engineering at NEURA Robotics, leading the engineering departments and overseeing product development and innovation.
AI and Safety in Cognitive Robotics
Modern robotics, e.g., the emerging cognitive robotics, surpasses classical industrial robotics and collaborative robotics in terms of performance and variety of possible applications due to tight integration of artificial intelligence and robotics. This presentation discusses safety challenges of robotic systems that enter more and more areas of life and implement AI-based safety-critical functions.
Referent | Dr. Steffen Wittmeier
(SICK AG)
Dr. Steffen Wittmeier joined the SICK corporate research and development department as an expert for virtual engineering in May 2019. His work focuses on the modeling and simulation of sensors as well as on their interaction with the environment. He discovered his passion for simulations during his time as a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he simulated the respiratory centers of the human brain. Inspired by this experience, he pursued a PhD degree at the Technical University of Munich where his work centered around the modeling and simulation of the dynamics of humanoid robots.
Referent | Dr. Dominic Ruh
(SICK AG)
04:15-04:45
Technology Trends for Safer Industries
04:45-05:15
Discussion
Dr. Dominic Ruh joined SICK AG in 2017 and is currently heading the "Sensing Architectures" group. Previously, he worked as a sensing expert on TOF cameras, UWB localization, RADAR, and since 2019 with a special focus on FMCW LiDAR.
He acquired his expertise in sensing and especially in optical sensing during his PhD at the Gisela- and Erwin-Sick-Professorship for Microoptics and his postdoc at the Chair of Bio- and Nanophotonics at the University of Freiburg.
Technology Trends for Safer Industries
In 1952, SICK presented its first marketable invention, a light curtain for accident prevention - so our roots are in safety. Since then, much has been achieved, such as the invention of the world's first safety laser scanner or, more recently, the development of a safety depth camera. All these success stories make SICK AG a well-known player in the field of industrial safety today. In this talk, we will present our view on how innovative technologies and methodologies, such as modern sensing technologies and virtual engineering, contribute to an even safer future.
Your Hosts Welcome you to the "Beyond Safety. Forum@SICK"
Host & Moderator | Mario Trapp
is Executive Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Cognitive Systems IKS.
Host & Moderator | Magnus Albert
is Expert Safety Methods for SICK AG - CDRD - Eco Systems Interaction.
Host | Claudia Herr
is Functional Safety Data & Information Coordinator for SICK AG - CDRD - Eco Systems Interaction.
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