NTU-CEE Distinguished Seminar Series: Prof. Panagiotis Angeloudis

Organized By

CEE Seminar Committee

Host By

Assistant Professor Yan Ran

Topic

Mitigating Risk in Autonomous Vehicle Operations: Urban Autonomy and Beyond

About the Seminar

Despite significant advances in research and development, substantial challenges remain in deploying Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) on public roads. This talk will focus on the efforts of researchers at the Transport Systems & Logistics Laboratory at Imperial College London in developing a suite of AV training models based on real-world traffic incidents and camera data, which are designed to refine testing and validation processes.

e will also examine ongoing obstacles to AV deployment, review recent regulatory initiatives concerning certification, and highlight our innovative integration of Deep Reinforcement Learning with model-based risk metrics. Furthermore, our framework extends to coordinated multi-vehicle operations and has practical applications in construction, mining, and maritime safety, thereby broadening its impact across diverse, high-risk environments.

About the Speaker

Dr Panagiotis Angeloudis is Professor of Transport Systems & Logistics at Imperial College London and the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering. His research focuses on the intersection of autonomous systems, multi-agent modelling and network optimisation and their applications to freight distribution and passenger transportation.

His research group specialises in developing high-performance, scalable models that capture the interactions between users, providers, infrastructure and operating regimes. Recent TSL projects have focused on the design of deployment strategies for safe and efficient autonomous transport systems (AVs, drones) for passenger and freight mobility.

Panagiotis was recently appointed by the UK Department for Transport to the Expert Panel for Maritime 2050 and has been a member of the Future of Mobility review team for the UK Government Office of Science. Over the years, he has advised and developed bespoke models for major corporations, government agencies and consultancies worldwide on initiatives related to transport infrastructure, operations management and technology deployment.

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