Erik Coelingh

Erik Coelingh is leads the Product Team @ Zenseact and is Adjunct Professor Mechatronics at Chalmers University. Erik joined the Volvo Car Corporation more than 20 years ago, where he was responsible for Volvo's first application of Automatic Emergency Braking and led the advanced engineering activities for Pedestrian Detection and Intersection Collision Avoidance.

In 2008, he took on the role of Senior Technical Leader for Safety Technologies, pioneering the Drive Me program, Volvo's revolutionary research project on autonomous driving, taking place on public roads, and involving local drivers to integrate autonomous driving technology into their daily lives. In 2017 he was instrumental in carving out this development and integrating it into Zenuity, a joint venture between Volvo Cars and Autoliv. He took on the role of Technology Advisor in Zenuity's leadership team.

His work focuses on algorithm and system design for active safety features for collision avoidance by means of warning and automatic emergency braking and steering. He also works on the design of driver support features to take over part of the driving task, utilizing adaptive cruise control, automatic parking and autonomous vehicles. His ultimate vision is to design cars that can be driven fully automatically without incident."It is relatively easy to build and demonstrate a self-driving concept vehicle, but if you want to create an impact in the real world, you have to design and produce a complete system that will be safe, robust and affordable for ordinary customers.”