W4: 6G-empowered Robotic Vehicles for Sustainable Development (VeSUS)
Co-chair: Zhenhui Yuan, University of Warwick, UK
Co-chair: Qing Li, Peng Cheng Lab, China
Co-chair: Nauman Aslam, Northumbria University, UK
Abstract: The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), also known as Agenda 2030, have specified initiatives to transform our planet in three main areas: the economy, society and the environment. With the ultimate goal of improving air, water, energy and human society, cross-disciplinary technologies have been designed to meet the needs of different SDGs.
Among all technology fields, the VeSUS workshop is the first event that explores the combined roles of 6G and robotic vehicles in achieving the SDGs. Challenges in designing and developing sustainable and ecological smart robotic vehicles will be identified. In addition, the feasibility and capability of integrating 6G and smart robotic vehicles will be addressed and demonstrated.
VeSUS relates to the Horizon Europe-Staff Exchange EVOLVE project, Electric Vehicles (EV) pOint Location optimization via VEhicular communications, (2022-2026). The vision of EVOLVE is to help make urban transport (e-mobility) smarter and more sustainable through innovative EV charging point recommendation systems. VeSUS is designed to host the first generation of experts to exploit advanced technologies in 6G and robotic vehicles that will revolutionize the connected EV technologies and the associated business sectors. VeSUS is also co-organised and supported by the IEEE UK and Ireland ComSoc. VeSUS brings together academics, engineers and stakeholders from multiple disciplines to hold a dialogue on the need for Sustainable Infrastructure and shape the ideas to design cutting edge robotic vehicles with the assistance of 6G.
Programme outline
9:00-9:05
Workshop introduction
9:05-9:30
(20 min + 5 min Q&A)
Keynote speaker 1
Dr.Roger Woodman
Title: How Autonomous Vehicles Will Change our World
Roger Woodman is an Assistant Professor and Human Factors research
lead at WMG, University of Warwick. He received his PhD from Bristol
Robotics Laboratory and has over 20 years experience in industry and
academia. Among his research interests, are trust and acceptance of new
technology with a focus on self-driving vehicles, shared mobility, and
human-machine interfaces. He lectures on the topic of Human Factors
of Future Mobility and is the Co-director of the Centre for Doctoral
Training, training doctoral researchers in the areas of intelligent and
electrified mobility systems. He is a Chartered Engineer (CEng) and a
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).
9:30-9:55
(20 min + 5 min Q&A)
Keynote speaker 2
Dr.Fan Jiang
Title: OTFS Waveform for Integrated Sensing and Communications in
Robotic Vehicles
Fan Jiang is now associate researcher at Peng Cheng Laboratory (PCL),
Shenzhen, China. He has been working in Signal Processing for
Wireless Communications for more than 10 years. His current research
interest includes Integrated Sensing and Communications, Delay-
Doppler Channel Models, and Signal Processing over Time-varying
Channels.
9:55-10:00 break
10:00-10:20
(15 min + 5 min Q&A)
Technical paper 1
“CoSPAM: Multi-Robot Collaboration Simultaneous Path Planning and
Semantic Mapping”, Kai Hu
10:20-10:40
(15 min + 5 min Q&A)
Technical paper 2
“Performance Analysis of Acoustic RIS-Assisted Wireless Underwater
Communications”, Yangzhe Liao
10:40-11:00
(15 min + 5 min Q&A)
Technical paper 3
“A Survey on Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Applications in the
Internet of Vehicles”, Elham Mohammadzadeh Mianji
11:00-11:20
(15 min + 5 min Q&A)
Technical paper 4
“Machine Learning based Driver Emotion Monitoring for Vehicular
IoT”, Yi Han
11:20-11:30
Panel discussion with all speakers
Closing
Co-chair Bios:
Zhenhui Yuan
Bio: Zhenhui Yuan is an Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick, UK. He received his BEng degree in Software Engineering at Wuhan University, China, in 2008 and PhD in Electronic Engineering at Dublin City University, Ireland, in 2012. He is primarily interested in the development of communication systems for robots and vehicles. He was a postdoctoral researcher at Ericsson and Enterprise Ireland and a visiting scholar at UCLA, U.S. He was also a 5G Senior Researcher at Huawei (Shanghai). He co-founded RobSense (Hangzhou) Technology Co.Ltd which provides industrial IoT solutions with robotics. He was an Associate Professor at Hangzhou Dianzi University, China, and a Senior Lecturer at Northumbria University, UK. He won the best paper awards at IEEE ICCRE 2016 and IEEE BMSB 2014. He served as the Lead Guest Editor in IEEE Network Magazine and IEEE Internet of Things Journal, and an Associate Editor at IEEE ACCESS, IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics and Journal of Pervasive Computing & Communications. He is the founding chair of VeSUS (6G-empowered Robotic Vehicles for Sustainable Development) workshop. He is a voting member of IEEE P1954 on UAV communications.
Qing Li
Bio: Qing Li is an Associate Professor at Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen, China. He received the B.S. degree (2008) from Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China, the Ph.D. degree (2013) from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China; both in computer science and technology.. Before joining in Peng Cheng Laboratory, he worked as a postdoc, a network research scientist, and an associate professor at Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School (Shenzhen, China), Huawei (Hong Kong), and Southern University of Science and Technology (Shenzhen, China). His research interests include reliable and scalable routing of the Internet, software defined networking, network function virtualization, in-network caching/computing, mobile edge computing, traffic scheduling, transmission control, video delivery, etc.
Nauman Aslam
Bio: Nauman Aslam is a Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science at Northumbria University, UK. He received his PhD in Engineering Mathematics from Dalhousie University, Canada in 2008. His research interests cover diverse but interconnected areas related to communication networks. His current research efforts are focused at addressing challenges related to Internet of Things (IoT), network security, charging management of electric vehicles and application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in communication networks. He has held several grants as PI and CoI, from European Commission, EPSRC, Innovate UK and industry. He has co-authored over 200 peer-reviewed publications. He is the chair of IEEE UK and Ireland Communications Society (ComSoc) chapter.
To submit a paper, please visit: https://vtc2024s-rr-wks.trackchair.com/track/2254