Risk Webinar Tsukuba Grenoble #1: Territories and risk – Pedestrian behaviour

Territories and risk – Pedestrian behaviour

Speaker RISK Institute - Université Grenoble Alpes (France)

Dr Manon PREDHUMEAU

Modelling and simulation of realistic pedestrian behaviour around autonomous vehicles in shared spaces

Abstract
In the near future, autonomous vehicles will have to navigate in dense and dynamic urban environments like shared spaces. In such spaces, segregation between pedestrians and vehicles is minimized and users must negotiate their passage without explicit traffic rules. To achieve this, a key element of AV navigation in shared spaces is understanding and anticipating pedestrian behaviors and their interactions. But how to anticipate pedestrian behaviours with an autonomous vehicle? In this talk, we will present our work on agent-based modeling and simulation for pedestrian interaction with an autonomous vehicle in a shared space, and introduce the open source simulator SPACiSS.

Manon PREDHUMEAU is Lecturer in Computer Science at Grenoble Alps University in France. She is also a Visiting Research Fellow at the School of Geography, University of Leeds, UK, after working there for a year and a half (March 2022-August 2023) as a Research Fellow. As part of the RAIM (Responsible Automation for Inclusive Mobility) project, she worked on modelling and simulating the mobility needs of the ageing population in the UK and Canada, in order to identify the needs for demand-responsive autonomous transportation.

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Speaker Tsukuba University (Japan)

Professor ITOH Makoto

Toward quantification of risk in shared space

Abstract
Low-speed automated driving (AD) systems are expected to play a vital role for enhancing transportation of disabled people. Such ADs needs "shared spaces" which are not "shared roads" but "shared squares" where only pedestrians were supposed to use. In such pedestrian-centered areas, it is quite difficult for such ADs to go without taking risks. Here a question arises. How can we quantify the risk in such a shared space, and how can we assure its safety? In this talk, I will introduce my approach to this issue and some results and findings.

Makoto ITOH is a full professor at the Institute of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba. In 1999, he received his PhD degree in engineering from the University of Tsukuba. His research interests include human-machine systems, trust in automation, and human factors in automated systems. Itoh served as a secretary of IEEE Reliability Society Japan Chapter, and a co-chair of Shared Control Technical Committee, IEEE SMC Society.

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