William P. Mahoney III*
National Center for Atmospheric Research
In October 2018, the AMS Commission on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise will hold a summit focused on the meteorological needs and weather impacts on both airborne and surface based automated vehicles. As is evident from the rapid increase in research and development, the pace to develop automated airborne and surface based vehicles (AV) is accelerating. Significant global investments are being made to develop advanced driver assistance systems and fully automated surface and airborne vehicles. These systems utilize in situ and remote sensing technologies, optical systems, machine learning, and advanced navigation capabilities. Poor weather and associated road conditions present challenges to the industry due to its impact on sensor performance, vehicle situational awareness technologies, and ability of airborne systems to maintain flight operations.
This summit will bring together the weather enterprise (public, private, and academic sectors), advanced driver assistance systems and automated vehicle industries to discuss the meteorological impacts, current capabilities, weather and pavement-condition information needs of automated surface vehicles and unmanned airborne vehicles to support the advancement of automated vehicle development, reduce risk, accelerate adoption, and support operations.
The meeting sessions and discussions will cover topics such as:
- What AV sensing platforms and capabilities are in practice or envisioned?
- What AV use cases are being developed and envisioned (e.g., ride sharing, package delivery, surveillance, environmental sensing, etc.)?
- What meteorological information is required to operate UAVs within and beyond the line of sight and surface vehicles to maintain a safe operation and increase mobility?
- How are the AV testing centers using meteorological data? What are the information needs?
- What environmental sensing can be done by AVs, how will the data be made available, and how valuable will it be?
- What are the meteorological needs for UAV traffic management systems?
- How can Big Data and IoT play into the solution?
- How can the weather enterprise support AV R&D and help accelerate adoption?
Summit participants will include representatives from USDOT, Microsoft, auto safety organizations, Airbus, NASA, AV testing centers, Verizon, Uber, Air Force, IBM, and several weather enterprise service providers. The program is designed to generate a robust discussion of how these industries can work together to advance these exciting technologies.
The proposed talk will provide a summary of the summit discussion topics, automated vehicle industry needs, information gaps, risks, research and development requirements, and opportunities for the weather enterprise to support and help accelerate the adoption of autonomous vehicles.
*Corresponding Author Information
William P Mahoney III
National Center for Atmospheric Research
P.O. Box 3000
Boulder, CO 80307
Email: mahoney@ucar.edu
Supplementary URL: https://www.ametsoc.org/index.cfm/ams/meetings-events/ams-meetings/automated-vehicles-meteorology-summit/
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