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IJRR
2010
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12 years 11 months ago
A High-rate, Heterogeneous Data Set From The DARPA Urban Challenge
This paper describes a data set collected by MIT's autonomous vehicle Talos during the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge. Data from a high precision navigation system, 5 cameras, 12 ...
Albert S. Huang, Matthew E. Antone, Edwin Olson, L...
JFR
2006
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13 years 4 months ago
MITRE Meteor: An off-road autonomous vehicle for DARPA's Grand Challenge
The MITRE Meteor team fielded an autonomous vehicle that competed in DARPA's 2005 Grand Challenge race. This paper describes the team's approach to building its robotic ...
Robert Grabowski, Richard M. Weatherly, Robert H. ...
JFR
2006
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13 years 4 months ago
Learning in a hierarchical control system: 4D/RCS in the DARPA LAGR program
The Defense Applied Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Learning Applied to Ground Vehicles (LAGR) program aims to develop algorithms for autonomous vehicle navigation that learn how...
James S. Albus, Roger Bostelman, Tommy Chang, Tsai...
IJCAI
2007
13 years 5 months ago
Online Speed Adaptation Using Supervised Learning for High-Speed, Off-Road Autonomous Driving
The mobile robotics community has traditionally addressed motion planning and navigation in terms of steering decisions. However, selecting the best speed is also important – be...
David Stavens, Gabriel Hoffmann, Sebastian Thrun
ICRA
2003
IEEE
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13 years 9 months ago
TopBot: automated network topology detection with a mobile robot
Abstract— We have demonstrated that a properlyequipped mobile robot can easily construct a detailed map of the wireless coverage of an urban environment. The Autonomous Vehicle f...
Paul Blaer, Peter K. Allen
VTC
2007
IEEE
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13 years 10 months ago
Analysis of a Spline Based, Obstacle Avoiding Path Planning Algorithm
—The Overbot is one of the original DARPA Grand Challenge vehicles now being used as a platform for autonomous vehicle research. The vehicle, equipped with a complete actuator an...
John Connors, Gabriel Elkaim
IROS
2008
IEEE
162views Robotics» more  IROS 2008»
13 years 10 months ago
WiFi position estimation in industrial environments using Gaussian processes
—The increased popularity of wireless networks has enabled the development of localization techniques that rely on WiFi signal strength. These systems are cheap, effective, and r...
Felix Duvallet, Ashley D. Tews
IROS
2008
IEEE
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13 years 10 months ago
Vehicle dynamics estimation for camera-based visibility distance estimation
Abstract— The presence of an area with low visibility conditions is a relevant information for autonomous vehicle as far as environment sensing is important regarding safety. In ...
Clement Boussard, Nicolas Hautière, Brigitt...
CDC
2008
IEEE
116views Control Systems» more  CDC 2008»
13 years 10 months ago
Curve tracking control for autonomous vehicles with rigidly mounted range sensors
— In this paper, we present a feedback control law to make an autonomous vehicle with rigidly mounted range sensors track a desired curve. In particular, we consider a vehicle wh...
Jonghoek Kim, Fumin Zhang, Magnus Egerstedt