Translation. Region: Russian Federal
Source: Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University – Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University –
The Polytechnic University hosted another seminar on artificial intelligence, where participants discussed expanding the capabilities of passenger transport in St. Petersburg.
Pavel Polyakov, Head of the Information Technology and Intelligent Systems Department at Gorelectrotrans, spoke about the new functional capabilities of the rolling stock and transport infrastructure of the city. Pavel Sergeevich noted what intelligent systems the city transport is already equipped with and what else will be added. He spoke in detail about the driver monitoring camera, the active safety and driver assistance system (ASDS), which use AI technologies. Today, the company operates 302 tram cars with the ASDS system.
Pavel Polyakov emphasized that smart transport should be trained in basic skills of work in real conditions at specialized testing grounds, and all systems should have information exchange and the possibility of mutual integration. Currently, such a tram is being tested at the testing ground on the territory of “Shavrovo”, where RFID tags, V2X equipment, and traffic lights are installed. After the adoption of the relevant resolution of the government of St. Petersburg, this rolling stock will go on city routes.
Even when switching to unmanned mode, we will not abandon human participation in the movement. Our main task is to ensure the safety of passengers and improve the quality of services provided, – noted Pavel Polyakov.
Deputy Head of the Computer Technology, Communications and Communications Service of Gorelektrotrans Andrey Sokolov spoke about the development of methods that will allow an objective assessment of the degree of reliability of a particular system and the level of trust in them.
Everyone is waiting for certain approaches, requirements and restrictions before implementing systems in practice. And here we are already talking about trusting and explanatory artificial intelligence, which will provide justifications for why this or that decision was made, – commented the moderator of the seminar, head of the laboratory “Industrial systems of streaming data processing” of SPbPU Marina Bolsunovskaya.
Associate Professor of the Higher School of Management of the Institute of Metallurgy and Metallurgy Dmitry Plotnikov noted that the regulatory framework is lagging far behind the technology, and outlined the interdisciplinary tasks in the development of ground unmanned vehicles. He emphasized that it is necessary to conduct a lot of tests and accumulate data that will form the basis of standards. Dmitry Plotnikov spoke about unmanned vehicles that were developed at SPbPU, about the prospects for the implementation of AI systems in transport.
The participants discussed the possibility of trial operation of the Polytechnic University’s development in the GET — a control system for unmanned cargo transport based on the Gazelle e-NN vehicle. They also considered the advantages of virtual modeling of road situations instead of real tests. Dmitry Plotnikov emphasized that virtual modeling will not completely replace real tests, since it is impossible to virtually foresee all physical processes. Marina Bolsunovskaya believes that at the first stage, virtual modeling can be carried out and then confirmed by full-scale tests. They are important, since not all real-world objects have been analyzed and fully described.
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