We at Zenseact are passionate about life and safety. Our purpose is to protect life on the road by providing a software platform for innovative and safe self-driving features that will change our societies forever. However, the latest advancements in the field of autonomous driving software development resulted in the engineering challenge of the century. Solving that requires razor-sharp focus. Zenseact was born out of the need to move undistracted towards this new trajectory with the purpose to make safe and intelligent mobility real for everyone, everywhere. In order to fully serve our purpose, we are creating an unsupervised autonomous vehicle solution for consumer vehicles together with our lead customer Volvo Cars. In this presentation, I will give an overview of the key research challenges that we currently encounter at Zenseact on our road to unsupervised autonomous vehicle solutions. These challenges represent opportunities for the research community to address exciting problems of current practical importance and offer possibilities for collaboration.

Jonas started his career at SAAB Automobile, Sweden, in 1985. He joined the Volvo Car Corporation in 1994, responsible for its first application of Electronic Stability Control. Next he engaged in Automatic Emergency Braking where he led the pre-development activities for the groundbreaking features City Safety and Pedestrian Detection with Full Auto Braking. Jonas started research activities in the self-driving area and co-conceived the “SAfe Road TRains for the Environment” program that focused on self-driving through platooning. Jonas has held line management as well as technical specialist positions in Volvo Cars during a 22-year employment and has generated 30+ patents. The joint venture Zenuity was started in 2017 to focus on software development for Automated Driving and Active Safety. It was split between the owners in July 2020, and the recently spawned company Zenseact AB is owned by Volvo Cars. Zenseact comprises about 600 heads focused on bringing software for unsupervised self-driving on the roads. Jonas is currently leading technology development, collaboration and research.