ROADSIGNS EPISODE 58

HOW IS UNIVERSITY RESEARCH ADVANCING TRANSPORTATION TECHNOLOGY?

Next-level technologies hold the potential to enhance safety and efficiency in the transportation industry, but it takes a lot of work behind the scenes to advance these ideas from concept to reality. In many cases, that process involves industrialists, entrepreneurs and leading university researchers coming together to rethink common practices and put emerging technologies to the test. At the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon, principal project scientist Christoph Mertz cultivates predictive road maintenance technology to ease the pain of potholes and basic infrastructure roadblocks. Meanwhile, at the University of Michigan, Huei Peng leads the MCity consortium to support the development of automated and connected vehicle technology. Tune in to find out how they are paving the way for the technologies of the future.

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Huei Peng received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1992. He is director of Mcity at the University of Michigan, and the Roger L. McCarthy Professor of Mechanical Engineering at U-M. Peng’s research interests include adaptive control and optimal control, with emphasis on their applications to vehicular and transportation systems.

Christoph Mertz

Huei Peng

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In 1998, Christoph received his Ph.D. in physics from Arizona State University. After continuing his nuclear physics research for another year, he joined the CMU Robotics Institute research staff. There he developed surround sensing and object detection systems for intelligent vehicles and search and rescue robots. In 2016, Dr. Mertz became Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at RoadBotics while remaining Principal Project Scientist at CMU.

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