Vandana Narri

About me - I have done Master’s in Electrical Engineering specialized in Signal Processing at Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Karlskrona, Sweden. My undergraduate background emphasis in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad, India.

PhD Project Title - Shared Situational Awareness under Complex Traffic Scenarios

Industry  - Scania AB

Funded by -  Wallenberg Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Systems, and Software Program (WASP)

Main Supervisor - Karl Henrik Johansson
Co-Supervisor - Jonas Mårtensson

Summary :  Connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) have attracted significant attention in the last years both from academia and industry for the enormous impact that their introduction can have on economy and society. The benefits of CAVs range from safety improvements, reduced environmental impact, efficient utilization of the road infrastructure to a more competitive road freight transportation. One of the biggest challenges in CAV development is the comprehension of the environment and the anticipation of road user behaviors. In this proposal we refer to such abilities as situational awareness, and we consider how to automate CAVs under dynamically varying situational awareness degree. The objective of this research project is to analyse, model and formalize a shared situational awareness  framework for the extended vehicle. This framework will allow to orchestrate the utilization of shared resources in complex and crowded environments and to define which kind of information each CAV and the infrastructure should share.