The Globe and Mail Jun 5, 2025 article about edge cases highlights the need for self-driving cars to safely handle unusual and dangerous traffic situations, well beyond the 99% currently considered as good performance. The article highlights research done at WISE Lab.
UW Moose and WISE Sim were used to create a self-driving platoon for experiments from the paper "Enhancing Safety in Mixed Traffic: Learning-Based Modeling and Efficient Control of Autonomous and Human-Driven Vehicles".
In collaboration with Communitech within the The Autonomous Vehicle Innovation Network (AVIN), WISE Lab completed the Lanelet2 mapping project. The goal of the project was to develop a method for generating Lanelet2 maps suitable for automated driving and validate the map using traffic simulations.
We published a few seminars on our YouTube channel:
More are to come.
On March 8, 2021, prof. Krzysztof Czarnecki gave an invited lecture titled "Designing & Testing Autonomous Vehicles: What Engineers are Doing" as part of the lecture series at the Electrical & Computer Engineering department at the University of Waterloo. The video is available on YouTube.
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Prof. Krzysztof Czarnecki participated in an expert panel on connected and autonomous vehicles and shared mobility organized by the Council of Canadian Academies and sponsored by Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED).
The executive summary and the complete report from the panel as well as a press release are available on the CAC's website.
Our SAE World Congress Experience conference article "Modes of Automated Driving System Scenario Testing: Experience Report and Recommendations" has been selected as one of the best papers at the conference and it has been published in SAE International Journal Advances & Current Practices in Mobility under the same title.
On Oct 28, 2020, prof. Czarnecki delivered a keynote at MODELS'20 entitled "Models in AI-enabled systems: the case of automated driving". Watch the video on YouTube.
The grand opening of the new Autonomous Vehicle Research & Intelligence Laboratory (AVRIL) took place on Tue, Feb 14, 2020, with over 60 guests, including the federal and provincial ministers, MPPs, and the president of the University of Waterloo. AVRIL is now the new home of the UW Moose as well as many other projects.