Ola Benderius

Dr. Ola Benderius is Associate professor of Autonomous mobile systems at the Department of mechanics and maritime sciences at Chalmers University of Technology. His research focus is mainly on biologically inspired AI for mobile 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 was involved in forming the Chalmers vehicle research laboratory Revere, where he is currently leading research connected to autonomous driving, computer vision, software engineering in cyber-physical systems, and next generation HMI for both road and marine vehicles. He is one of the two architects behind the open-source software architecture OpenDLV for autonomous systems, the leader of Sweden’s first autonomous racing team, and the initiator of Reeds, the world’s largest dataset for fair benchmarking of robot perception algorithms.