Professor Maria Pia Fanti
The number of cooperative, connected and automated vehicles (CCAVs) in urban areas will gradually increase soon. As a consequence, mixed traffic made of both regular human driven and CCAVs will likely be a typical scenario over the next few years. This talk will present some approaches for managing cooperative, connected and automated mobility. Some strategies based on Artificial Intelligence tools and traffic simulation will be presented for collision detection and avoidance at intersections, route planner and carpooling services in the urban areas.
Professor Maria Pia Fanti received the Laurea degree in electronic engineering from the University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy. She was a visiting researcher at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute of Troy, New York, in 1999. Since 1983, she has been with the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering of the Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy, where she is currently a Full Professor of system and control engineering and Chair of the Laboratory of Automation and Control.
Her research interests include management and modeling of complex systems, such as transportation, logistics and manufacturing systems; discrete event systems; Petri nets; consensus protocols; fault detection. Prof. Fanti is IEEE fellow and has published more than 350 papers and two textbooks on her research topics.
She is senior editor of the IEEE Trans. on Automation Science and Engineering and Associate Editor of the IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems. She was member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, and member of the Administrative Committee of the IEEE Robotics and Automaton Society, and chair of the Technical Committee on Automation in Logistics of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. Prof. Fanti was involved in many international conferences and in particular she was General Chair of the 2011 IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and logistics, and Informatics and the 2019 IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Conference.