In 2026, ASD is hosted by HSCC/ICCPS at CPS-IoT Week in St. Malo/France
Program
Tuesday, May 12, 2026.
10:30 – 11:45 AM : Joint Keynote Session # 1 – ASD
Moderator: Dirk Ziegenbein (Bosch, Germany) Room: Rotonde Surcouf (Level 2)
Oliver Rogalla (Airbus Defense and Space), The Sovereignty Paradox – Safe AI for Aerospace Autonomous Systems.
11:45 – 12:30 PM : Session ASD/LEA1 – Adaptive Perception for Autonomous Systems.
Moderator: Dirk Ziegenbein (Bosch, Germany) Room: Vauban 2 (Level 2)
- 11:45 – 12:15 : SmartFusion-SLAM: From Passive Fusion to Temporal Uncertainty-Aware Sensor Adaptation in BEV SLAM, Zixia Xia, Marco Levorato (University of California, Irvine)
- 12:15 – 12:30 : Multi-Resolution End-to-End Deep Neural Network for Optimizing Latency-Accuracy Tradeoff in Autonomous Driving, QiTao Weng, Heechul Yun (University of Kansas)
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 – 16:00 : ASD Session 2: Autonomy in Practice
Room: Vauban 2 (Level 2)
- 14:00 – 15:00: Session 2a: Affordable Autonomy. Moderator: Selma Saidi (TU Braunschweig, Germany)
- Affordable Onboard Localization for UAVs via Perception-Control Co-Design, Marilyn Wolf (Univ. of Nebraska, U.S.A.)
- Affordable Mobile Systems Autonomy via Function Offloading, Tasuku Ishigooka (ASTEMO Ltd, Japan)
- 15:00 – 16:00: Session 2b: Safeguarding AI in Autonomous Vehicles. Moderator: Sebastian Steinhorst (TU Munich, Germany).
- Building Safe and Scalable Autonomous Driving Systems, Charbel Assaf (Momenta Europe, Germany)
- The AI Safety Spectrum: Explicit Rules and Emergent Behaviors, Steffen Knoop (Bosch, Germany)
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 – 18:00 : ASD Panel Session: Is Autonomy Ready for Primetime?
Moderators:
- Selma Saidi (TU Braunschweig, Germany)
- Sebastian Steinhorst (TU Munich, Germany)
Room: Vauban 2 (Level 2)
Title: Is Autonomy Ready for Primetime?
Panelists
- Oliver Rogalla (Airbus Defense and Space)
- Marilyn Wolf (Univ. of Nebraska, U.S.A.)
- Tasuku Ishigooka (ASTEMO Ltd, Japan)
- Charbel Assaf (Momenta Europe)
- Steffen Knoop (Bosch)