Research Challenges for Energy-Efficient Computing in Automated Vehicles

Robert P. Dick, Rob Aitken, Jace Mogill, John Paul Strachan, Kirk Bresniker, Wei Lu, Yorie Nakahira, Zhiyong Li, Matthew J. Marinella, William Severa, A. Alec Talin, Craig M. Vineyard, Suhas Kumar, Christian Mailhiot, Lennie Klebanoff

Abstract: Fully automated retail vehicles will have stringent, real-time operational safety, sensing, communication, inference, planning, and control requirements. Meeting them with existing technologies will impose prohibitive energy-provisioning and thermal management requirements. This article summarizes the research challenges facing the designers of computationally energy-efficient, economical, safe, and reliable automated retail vehicles.