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Our lab members participated in the ITS World Congress 2024, held from September 16 to 20 at the Dubai World Trade Center. This conference gathers experts from around the world to discuss advancements in intelligent transport systems (ITS). We moderated and presented the session “SIS 38: Rationale and Validation of Cooperative Perception Services for Connected & Automated Vehicles.” The session focused on the limitations of Level 3 and Level 4 automated vehicles, which rely on onboard sensors to detect surroundings. These vehicles struggle to detect objects in blind spots or beyond sensor range. To enhance safety, cooperative perception services using V2X communication were discussed. This technology allows sharing information fromRead more

We are delighted to announce that Ms. Chi Weiqi, a D1 student from our laboratory, received the IEEE VTS Tokyo/Japan Chapter Young Researcher’s Encouragement Award at the 2024 IEEE 99th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2024-Spring) in Singapore. This conference, held from June 24-27, is a major event in wireless, mobile, and vehicular technology, bringing together experts from academia, industry, and government to share the latest advancements. Ms. Chi presented her paper titled “V2I Blockage Modeling and Performance Evaluation for Autonomous Driving.” Her research focuses on the challenges in vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication, particularly in the context of millimeter-wave (mmWave) technology. By using an RSU-assisted system, her study addresses blockages in multi-lane scenariosRead more

We are pleased to report on our participation in the 35th IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IEEE IV 2024), held at Jeju Shinhwa World, Jeju Island, Korea, from June 2-5, 2024. This prestigious conference, sponsored by the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (ITSS), brought together researchers, engineers, practitioners, and students from various sectors to discuss the latest advancements in intelligent vehicles and vehicle-infrastructure cooperation. Our laboratory was represented by Prof. Manabu Tsukada and Dr. Tao Ye presented his paper titled “Zero-Knowledge Proof of Distinct Identity: A Standard-Compatible Sybil-Resistant Pseudonym Extension for C-ITS.” The paper addresses the challenge of Sybil attacks in Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS) by proposing a novel protocolRead more

Kengo Suzuki (M2) recently participated in the 2nd Workshop on Next-generation Open and Programmable Radio Access Networks (NG-OPERA), held alongside the IEEE INFOCOM 2024 conference in Vancouver, Canada. This workshop focused on the transformation of radio access networks (RAN) as we move towards 5G-Advanced and 6G technologies. Topics like the Open RAN movement, open-source software solutions, and AI’s role in network management were highlighted. Kengo presented his research paper titled “Toward B5G/6G Connected Autonomous Vehicles: O-RAN-Driven Millimeter-Wave Beam Management and Handover Management.” His work proposed a novel way to use O-RAN architecture to improve communication for autonomous vehicles, especially in challenging road scenarios. Notably, his presentation won the Best PaperRead more

Associate Professor Manabu Tsukada participated in the 6th International Workshop on Pervasive Computing for Vehicular Systems (PerVehicle 2024) held in Biarritz, France at 15th March 2024. This conference served as a platform for researchers and practitioners to discuss the evolving landscape of intelligent vehicular systems and the role of pervasive computing technologies in shaping their future. One of the highlights of the conference was Professor Tsukada’s presentation titled “V2X and Beyond: Integrating Roadside Units for Next-Level Cooperative Automated Driving.” The presentation explored the transformative potential of integrating Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communication and Roadside Perception Units (RSPUs) in enhancing autonomous driving capabilities. Through rigorous field tests and simulation experiments, Professor Tsukada showcasedRead more

From December 14th to 15th, 2023, at the National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, Yuze Jiang, an M2 student from our laboratory, was awarded the Best Paper Award (Silver) at the ACM International Conference on Intelligent Computing and its Emerging Applications (ICEA 2023), despite it being his first participation in an international conference. The award-winning paper proposed a method of using LiDAR-equipped roadside units and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) communication to accurately estimate the position of connected vehicles and assist them when their self-localization is insufficient. The results of the simulation indicated that this method surpasses the traditional Normal Distributions Transform (NDT) scan matching-based approach in termsRead more

The “NTU-UTokyo Joint Conference 2023” was held on December 7th and 8th, 2023, at the National Taiwan University (NTU) campus in Taipei. This year’s conference theme was “Towards a Sustainable Future: Challenges and Resilience,” and it brought together a total of 300 professors from both the University of Tokyo and NTU. The opening ceremony was conducted by Teruo Fujii, President of the University of Tokyo, and Wen-Chang Chen, President of NTU. On the first day of the conference, a welcome luncheon was held at La marée (Shuiyuan Wedding Hall), followed by 18 parallel sessions. Among these sessions, there was one on autonomous driving, focusing on the theme of “Energy-aware collaborativeRead more

Team TLAB, consisting of Chikara Matsuzawa (1st year master’s student) and Kengo Suzuki (1st year master’s student), won the 2nd place excellence award at the Automated AI Challenge 2023 (Integration) held on Sunday, November 12, 2023, at the University of Tokyo Kashiwa Campus. Six student teams and 10 adult teams participated in the finals, with Team TLAB coming in first place among students and second place overall, a great accomplishment following their third-place finish in last year’s Automated Driving AI Challenge 2022. In the Automated AI Challenge, students competed to complete challenges using Autoware, an open-source automated driving operating system. In the qualifying round, contestants drove self-driving cars in aRead more

We’re thrilled to share the exciting news that we’re set to make a significant impact at the upcoming 26th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC 2023). Five of our research submissions have been accepted for presentation at this prestigious event, taking place from 24th to 28th September in Bilbao, Spain. ITSC, sponsored by the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society, is an annual flagship event that brings together scholars, industry experts, and enthusiasts from around the world. The conference serves as a platform for presenting new developments in theory, analytical and numerical simulation and modeling, experimentation, advanced deployment, and case studies in the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) domain. EachRead more

The research outcomes of the CREST Internet of Realities project will be exhibited at Interop Tokyo 2023, to be held at Makuhari Messe from June 14 to 16, 2023. Tsukada Laboratory team will exhibit the following two demonstrations. External Human-Machine Interface for self-driving cars using Augmented Reality Web viewer for Building Information Modeling Booth Info: 4T24 Here is the handout of the project.Read more

On March 17th 2023, our laboratory joined the PF Lab Kickoff Meeting, hosted by Tier4, featuring researchers from NTU, Nagoya University, and Gifu University. Representing our lab, Prof. Manabu Tsukada, Prof. Ehsan Javanmardi, and Ph.D. student Pengfei Lin presented their latest work.Read more

2nd-year master student Mr. Asabe received the Best Poster Award at The 17th Asian Internet Engineering Conference (AINTEC) 2022 held in Hiroshima, Japan.Read more

Associate Professor Tsukada will serve as session chair for the Vertical Track: Transportation at the IEEE 8th World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT) 2022 to be held in Yokohama, Japan. Dr. Nakazato and Mr. Pengfei Lin will also give presentations.Read more

Four students from Tsukada lab visited California, USA to attend theRead more

Future Internet (ISSN 1999-5903) is now accepting articles for a special issueRead more

Team TLAB, consisting of Kambara-san (Master 2nd) and Asabe-san (Master 2nd), won third place in the Japan Automotive AI Challenge 2022Read more

Manabu Tsukada give a talk in AINTEC 2021 in Virtual Conference. The presentation title was “Cooperative Automated Driving Using Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X)”.Read more

We received the Best Paper Award for the results presented at the Symposium on Multimedia, Distributed, Cooperative and Mobile (DICOMO2021).Read more

We start working with Tier IV inc, and Prof. Nobuo Kawaguchi of Nagoya University on the NEDO project.Read more

From January 2021, Associate Professor Tsukada joins the Dynamic Map 2.0 consortium, concurrently serving as Designated Associate professor at Center for Embedded Computing Systems, Graduate School of Informatics, Nagoya University.Read more