Presentation
Design Automation for Autonomous Systems
DescriptionAutonomous systems are poised to transform many application domains, such as manufacturing, transportation, healthcare, agriculture, space and ocean exploration, and retail and services. However, their designs face tremendous challenges across heterogeneous components and multiple system layers. At the function level, the integration of sensing, computing and communication is critical for a successful mission. At the performance metric level, the existence of multiple factors, such as efficiency, cost, safety and security call for different optimization and trade-off strategies in practice. At the technology level, full stack integration, including programming, operating system, architecture and hardware, is required to form a functional autonomous agent. At the algorithm level, multiple choices for different processing stages co-exist and are available in different practical applications. At the computing platform level, CPU, GPU, ASIC, and FPGA play different roles in varying scenarios. Such heterogeneity from different aspects leads to a huge design space for autonomous systems, and it is becoming increasingly more complex with the adoption of advanced machine learning techniques. This brings a precious research opportunity for the Design Automation community. To efficiently design autonomous systems with multifaceted nature, interdisplinary knowledge and collaboration is fundamentally required. Meanwhile, unlike the electronics industry, to date there lacks principled methodologies for design space exploration of autonomous system design. The EDA-style toolset that is critical for the scalable growth of semiconductor technology, is missing for autonomous machines. This special session invites four confirmed speakers with extensive expertise in autonomous system design. The speakers will discuss pressing challenges and promising solutions across the design of algorithm, software, and hardware layers, with focus on system efficiency, cost, safety, and robustness.
Event Type
Special Session (Research)
TimeTuesday, June 253:30pm - 5:30pm PDT
Location3006, 3rd Floor
Autonomous Systems