The aim of REVERE is to enable development, testing, verification and demonstration of theoretical models, algorithms and technologies using real vehicles in real or conditioned traffic environments.
Revere enables students, researchers & companies to share knowledge and encourage inter-disciplinary research. This makes Revere an important arena for innovation, collaboration, and world class research.
Several research projects have been performed successfully at Revere since the start in 2015. The availability of the advanced test environment, the vehicle research platforms, skilled researchers and of course fruitful collaboration between academia, industry and public authorities have contributed to the success.
Mission
Revere provides and maintains vehicle platforms for any vehicle-based research at Chalmers. By building and maintaining a shared eco-system including mechanics, power electronics, computational electronics, embedded software, simulation software, and cloud software the laboratory can efficiently provide support for a large array of vehicles (land, marine, aerospace). Revere has a strong focus on experiments involving (1) data-collection using instrumented vehicles or vehicles in day-to-day operation, (2) autonomous vehicle control and perception, (3) active safety, (4) logistics, and (5) cyber-security; including the full processing chain of data, from vehicle sensors to cloud environments and digital twin simulation. To empower its users, Revere provides a well-maintained modular software, OpenDLV, that simplifies maintenance, cross-vehicle research, simulation, and hardware-in-the-loop. Any Chalmers researcher is welcome to include Revere as a project partner, and can freely use any resource by including salary costs in the project budget. In addition, Revere can support smaller projects for free from internal resources.
Vision
Revere removes the barriers between (1) the researcher and vehicle-based experimentation, (2) the physical vehicle environment and the digital counterpart, and (3) the academic research community and industrial partners.
The team at Revere
Anna Carlsson (PhD/MSc/Med), Director
Anna Carlsson holds a PhD in Machine and vehicle systems and a MSc in Engineering physics. She combines her position as Director of Revere with her role as Project manager at Chalmers Industriteknik. Anna defended her dissertation in 2012 with the title “Addressing Female Whiplash Injury Protection – A Step Towards 50th Percentile Female Rear Impact Occupant Models”. Together with Folksam's Research Department, she has ongoing projects focusing on whiplash-related injuries and protection systems. She is a member of the Swedish Transport Administration's collaboration groups for Safe mobility for pedestrians and cyclists . Furthermore, Anna participates in collaborations on safe mobility for the elderly and people using mobility aids. Anna also has a background within the vehicle safety industry as a crash test engineer.
Christian Berger (MSc, PhD), Research Engineer
Christian Berger is Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Gothenburg, and received his Ph.D. degree from RWTH Aachen University, Germany, in 2010. He coordinated the research project for the vehicle "Caroline", which successfully participated in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge. He also co-led Chalmers Truck Team during the 2016 Grand Cooperative Driving Challenge (GCDC) and is one of the two leading architects behind Revere’s software platform OpenDLV. His research expertise is on distributed real time software, microservices for embedded systems and cyber-physical systems, and continuous integration/deployment/experimentation for embedded systems.
Ola Benderius (MSc, PhD), Research Engineer
Ola Benderius is Associate Professor of Autonomous Mobile Systems at the Department of Mechanics and Maritime Sciences, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. His research focus is mainly on biologically inspired AI for autonomous vehicles, both inspired by human driving and deep neural functions connected to self-motion and machine operation. He did in 2014 find the solution to a 70-year old mystery connected to human control and the so-called remnant within control theory, by using inspiration from biological studies. In 2015 he joined Revere where he is currently leading research connected to autonomous driving, computer vision, software engineering in cyberphysical systems, and next generation HMI for both road and marine vehicles. Ola is also is one of the two leading architects behind Revere’s software platform OpenDLV.
Mikael von Redlich, Administrative officer
Michael von Redlich is office manager at Safer, Vehicle and Traffic Safety Centre at Chalmers. He has a background in the hospitality industry and worked many years at various high-end restaurants and hotels in Gothenburg. Mikael has also studied Political Science at Gothenburg University and Event Management. He supports Revere part-time with administrative tasks, scheduling, social media and other practical issues at the lab.
