Intelligent cars, robot companions for citizens etc.

[rainer93138]

In connection with the article http://www.complexevents.com/2010/10/01/cars-as-traffic-sensors/ and some more about "driverless cars" it might be interesting what we will do at the

3rd International Workshop on
“From Event-Driven Business Process Management to Ubiquitous Complex Event Processing”
http://www.citt-online.com/CfP-edBPM-UCEP.htm

This workshop focuses on the topics of connecting Internet of Services and Things with the management of business processes and the Future and Emerging Technologies as addressed by the ISTAG Recommendations of the European FET-F 2020 and Beyond Initiative ftp://ftp.cordis.europa.eu/pub/fp7/ict/docs/fet-proactive/press-17_en.pdf.

We will do it in a lively and fruitful manner, combined with a so called "World Cafe" based agenda. One of the tables of the World Cafe will deal with "Cyborgs / Artificial Global Intelligence / Robot companions for citizens and U-CEP". We are presently looking for ideas submitted as extended abstracts or more detailed outlines. This would be an example for table 6 about:

U-CEP based Smart Navigation and Intelligent Cars –
Taking the Example of Future Delivery Robots

http://www.citt-online.com/downloads/Intellgent-cars-Extended-Abstract.pdf

We would like to invite the experts mentioned in the paper from Stanford University, MIT, etc. as RTO's, but also the colleagues from the Automotive domain like Audi/VW, Volvo or from the Telco domain like DTAG, NSN, Siemens as well as future U-CEP platform providers like IBM, Oracle, SAP, Software Ag, Starview, TIBCO. The idea is to write together a paper on the basis of the brainstorming results about such extended abstracts or detailed outlines after the workshop. Comments, submissions, contributions welcome.

[DLuckham]

Rainer,
very interesting workshop. Right on the line of thinking of the final chapter of my new book!
Unfortunately, I'll be in Brazil at the time.
But maybe we could air some of the presentations on the CEP website?
cheers
- David

[rainer93138]

Thanks David. Of course we will air the results of the workshop on this website!
-Rainer

[rainer93138]

Accelerating returns;-) It goes faster and faster, it becomes commodity:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-20022 ... 7-1_3-0-20

"The biggest thing for the near future is auto-cars, which will change everything...The costs are there right now. The Google car actually was cost-effective. Think of no traffic congestion, highways that can hold 30 times as much traffic. Half the energy costs. It just goes on and on. The only issue is how powerful will be the Luddites. "

[rainer93138]

MIT researchers have developed a software system for “smart cars” that predicts the behavior of other human drivers, to prepare for a world where the road is shared by both human and artificially intelligent drivers.

There are plans to improve the system by adding provisions to account for weather and road conditions, and to take into account traits unique to the car:

http://www.kurzweilai.net/smart-car-model-predicts-the-behavior-of-human-drivers?utm_source=KurzweilAI+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=f9f39f89f4-UA-946742-1&utm_medium=email

This is one of the aspects we'll discuss from the U-CEP perspective at the 4th U-CEP workshop/ServiceWave 2011.

http://forum.complexevents.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=313
http://www.citt-online.com/downloads/Intellgent-cars-Extended-Abstract.pdf

[rainer93138]

(Please use your translation system from German to English...):

http://www.spiegel.de/auto/aktuell/0,1518,768618,00.html

An intelligent car has then "...was Autofahrern meist fehlt: Weitblick. Im Prinzip handelt es sich um einen intelligenten Tempomaten, der per Radarauge nicht nur den Sicherheitsabstand zum Vorausfahrenden einhält, sondern auch auf speziell angereicherten Daten des Navigationssystems zugreift... Der Rechner kennt beispielsweise Kuppen und Kurven im voraus, ebenso Ortsdurchfahrten, Tempolimits, Steigungen oder Gefälle. Auf Basis dieser Informationen kalkuliert er die sparsamste Fahrstrategie - und setzt sie der Einfachheit halber auch gleich um. Nicht mehr der Fahrer, sondern der Bordcomputer entscheidet, ob das Auto vor einer Kurve mit der Motorbremse verzögert, im Leerlauf ausrollt oder tatsächlich bremst. Und das, ehe der Mensch am Steuer die Kurve überhaupt gesehen hat... Dafür analysiert das System die jeweils nächsten fünf Kilometer der Strecke. Und für die jeweils ersten tausend Meter wird ein detailliertes Modell berechnet. Aus vielerlei Parametern entsteht dabei ein so genannter Fahrschlauch, durch den wiederum aus 600.000 Alternativen pro Sekunde die effizienteste Kurve gelegt wird. Das klingt kompliziert, der Effekt jedoch ist beachtlich..."

In combination with U-CEP we will add some more intelligence Let's discuss that at the 4th edBPM/U-CEP workshop.

[rainer93138]

Perhaps now after Opher Etzion's posting in his blog http://epthinking.blogspot.com/2011/06/smart-cars-towards-proactive.html and in connection with his role as chairman of EP-TS (http://www.ep-ts.com/), it might be a good chance to found a new working-group there and to work on an accordant project proposal. This might also be a good new push and challenge for EP-TS at all to approach new ideas beyond of our "traditional" business, financial applications or AlgoTrading, etc.

This is what we shall actually do at table 2 of the WorldCafe at our 4th edBPM/U-CEP workshop http://forum.complexevents.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=313. There is already an idea from Septimiu Nechifor/Siemens and Jaime Gomez/UPM Madrid to use the idea and "... join an Ambient Assisted Living proposal.
For me it looks like just a specific case of general "context awarness" topics (NextGen Navigation might be on the same family), maybe Jaime can confirm and set some lines for a table on this topic...", Septimiu wrote me and the co-organizers of the mentioned 4th workshop.

As I announced already, I'll come with a proposal for table 2 within the next days and which persons we could invite. On the basis of the outline http://www.citt-online.com/downloads/Intellgent-cars-Extended-Abstract.pdf (which will continously be updated) it should be quite easy to write a project proposal on the basis of a strong consortium. Because also other domains like telecommunication companies are going to reinvent themselves on the basis of new product and service ideas, we'll discuss such ideas with them and bring the experts together. For instance, telecommunications company are for quite some time considering whether they will be reduced only to the infrastructure for the transmission of data streams, or whether it is possible to find new ideas for services - on the basis of the U-CEP sketches.

[rainer93138]

Regarding Opher's answer on his blog (http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID ... 7131197479):
In the meantime and because of the fact that I'm working with Deutsche Telekom at present, I have seen that these U-CEP subjects fit very well with the R&D initiatives of DTAG (see our threads about BioSensors, BioMarkers, BodyAreaNetworks/Weareable Technologies, HET's, NextGen Intelligent navigation, even Brain Research, etc.):
http://www.laboratories.telekom.com/ipws/Deutsch/News/Archiv/2011/Pages/SmartSeniorCeBIT2011.aspx

DTAG resp. T-Labs work closely with Ben Gurion University in Israel already
http://www.laboratories.telekom.com/IPWS/DEUTSCH/STRATEGICRESEARCH/Pages/default.aspx

So, we should contact them, and actually we are already going to invite the CTIO and his team to the Future Internet Week (http://www.future-internet.eu/events/eventview/article/future-internet-assembly-poznan.html), the 4th ServiceWave conference (http://servicewave.eu/2011/)and to our 4th edBPM/U-CEP workshop there (http://www.citt-online.com/CfP-edBPM-UCEP-2011.htm).

[rainer93138]

Driverless driving will be solved in the near future, but technologies like delivery robots respectively to add intelligent (business) processes to the driverless cars to make them a robot is much more difficult as we discuss this in our pdf mentioned above.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=google-driverless-robot-car&WT.mc_id=SA_WR_20110525

and

http://www.linkedin.com/e/-plzqq-gphmf4yl-5h/nua/s447672363/http%3A%2F%2Fread.bi%2FlqGaR2/RWFq/5491446758124822528/EML_nus_share-F13/
(see the video)

and

http://www.motorauthority.com/news/1062073_volkswagen-shows-off-self-driving-auto-pilot-technology-for-cars

In the meantime it's actually almost commodity already and we can read it in the daily press:
http://www.spiegel.de/auto/aktuell/0,1518,770784,00.html

But to develop more intelligent delivery robots and robot companions, etc., based on U-CEP, which are really able to perform more complex (business) processes, will still be a scientific challenge for some years and nice subjects for master or doctoral theses we could start today.

[rainer93138]

The functional integration of coupled drive units yields significant ideas and insights that Festo can transfer to the development and optimisation of hybrid drive technology...extreme agility. With SmartBird, Festo has succeeded in deciphering the flight of birds – one of the oldest dreams of humankind.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnR8fDW3Ilo
http://www.festo.com/cms/en_corp/11369.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm62SAXPB_c&NR=1&feature=fvwp

German robotic bird, combined with U-CEP would make it a delivery robot or would do other - modelled - (business) processes, a new kind of carrier pigeon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23K_XDYnBZU and a new idea for Deutsche Post So far it's "only" flying, now let's make it more intelligent as mentioned in http://www.citt-online.com/downloads/In ... stract.pdf, chapter 4, another nice idea for doctoral theses... We should talk with Festo and German Post or let invite them to our 4th edBPM/U-CEP workshop in Poznan in October and suggest a nice "prestige project": Imagine that some futuristic carrier pigeons of German Post would be flying on the sky and would bring us the post, what an event for the press and what a fun for us to watch them on the sky!! Very much better than to use the technology for military purposes first.