The 2014 21st annual ITS World Congress was held in early September in Detroit, USA. It is a world-renowned annual event for the information and communications and vehicles industries.

The ITS World Congress Best Paper Award attracts the greatest amount of attention at this yearly event, and this year’s paper, entitled “Study of multisensory integration in Vehicle Safety” by ATRC engineers Lee Ming-hong, Su Yi-feng, and Xu Zhan-xiong et al. won the award for Best Technical Paper – Asia Pacific.

“Multisensory Integration” technology uses sensors with various functions in order to carry out a series of detections, recognitions, and analyses that simulate situations that humans are able recognize, for example, metal detection using multisensory integration to distinguish between vehicles ahead, manhole covers in the street, and roadside lampposts.

Connected vehicles are key to the future development of vehicles. ARTC General Director Huang Long-zhou attended the ITS World Congress and co-signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for connected vehicles with University of Michigan Vehicle Dynamic Laboratory’s Dr. Huei Peng

In the future, through mutual talent and technology exchanges, both parties will set up inter-vehicle communications and automatic driver assistance testing platforms in order to integrate Taiwan’s vehicle and information and communications industries and develop next-generation automatic vehicle control technologies.