The 6th Summer School on Cooperative Interacting Vehicles (CIV 2026) will take place from August 31 to September 4, 2026, at the Phoenix Seagaia Resort in Miyazaki, Japan — the first time in Asia. CIV is an intensive five-day program for PhD students, early-career researchers, and young industry professionals. This year’s themes include Cooperative Perception and Motion Planning, Implicit and Explicit Interaction, and Modeling and Data-Driven Methods (AI / Foundation Models). Confirmed lecturers include Prof. Christoph Stiller (KIT), Prof. Alexander Carballo (Gifu University / Autoware), Prof. Daniel Shih (NTU CSIE / TIER IV), and Ryohsuke Mitsudome (TIER IV / Autoware Foundation Lead). The program features lectures, interactive poster sessions, a data hackathon with real-world cooperative driving datasets, cultural andRead more
From September 1st to 5th, 2025, the Cooperative Interactive Vehicles (CIV) Summer School 2025 took place in Blonay, Switzerland. This summer school brought together researchers and students from around the world to explore cutting-edge topics in mobility, autonomous driving, and artificial intelligence. Organized by an international team led by Professor Arnaud de La Fortelle, the program featured lectures, poster sessions, hackathons, as well as social gatherings and a hike in the Swiss Alps. Associate Professor Manabu Tsukada joined as a member of the Organizing Committee and as a Lecturer, accompanied by 14 staff and students from the Tsukada Laboratory. His lecture, “Communication Foundations for End-to-End Driving”, addressed the essential roleRead more
We are pleased to announce that the 5th Summer School on Cooperative Interacting Vehicles (CIV2025) will take place from September 1st to 5th, 2025 in Blonay, Switzerland. This international summer school provides a learning and networking environment for students, early-career researchers, and professionals working on cooperative mobility, autonomous systems, and AI-driven intelligent transportation. Participants will have the opportunity to learn directly from experts in the field and engage in discussions on topics such as cooperative perception, motion planning, human-vehicle interaction, and data-driven methods. The event is organized under the leadership of Prof. Arnaud de La Fortelle. Our laboratory’s Associate Professor Manabu Tsukada is a member of the organizing committee andRead more
Tsukada Lab and Esaki Lab extend our warm congratulations to the following Master’s students who graduated in the academic year FY2024: Dongyang Li (李 東洋) (continuing as a PhD student in Tsukada lab) Yusuke Sugizaki (杉崎 勇介) Ryuto Kikuchi (菊池 龍翔) Kengo Suzuki (鈴木 健吾) Zhu Zhihai (朱 志海) We sincerely thank them for their dedication and valuable contributions to our research groups, and wish them success in their future endeavours.Read more
We are pleased to announce that our Master’s student (M2), Tokio TAKADA (髙田 季生), recently exhibited his research at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2025 in collaboration with Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT). Takada-san presented a Digital Twin system developed using Unity Engine, demonstrating how digital twins can function as orchestrators for high-bandwidth wireless communications in urban environments. His demonstration visualized ultra-fast data transmission scenarios leveraging the IEEE802.15.3e communication standard in the 60 GHz frequency range. Former assistant Professor Jin NAKAZATO (中里 仁) and Project Researcher Dr. Alex ORSHOLITS accompanied Takada-san at the event, representing our laboratory and underscoring our continued collaboration with national research institutes.Read more
