Autonomous Vehicles Let the car do the driving! P&O 2010Dennis Bevers

Recent Projects Audi TTS ◦High speed Pikes Peak hillclimb Top Gear BMW 330i ◦Self driving predefined path on a track VW Passat ◦Fully autonomous driving in real traffic Google Cars ◦Seven fully autonomous vehicles

Audi TTS

Volkswagen & Stanford University Native Audi Technology ◦drive-by-wire throttle ◦semiautomatic DSG gearbox 2 ordinary computers running: ◦safety critical algorithms using Java RTS ◦vehicle dynamics algorithms. Pikes Peak Hillclimb Race

BMW 330i

Top Gear Test Track Military grade GPS system +140km/u

VW Passat

Germany's TU Braunschweig DARPA Urban Challenge GPS, laser and sensor-guided Real Life Traffic ◦speed limits ◦regular streets ◦merge into highway traffic ◦stop at red lights and stop signs ◦automatically react to hazards

Google Cars

Toyota Prius & Audi TT 1,000 miles fully autonomously Google Maps + Google Datacenters Google CEO Eric Schmidt ◦ “It’s a bug that cars were invented before computers… Your car should drive itself. It just makes sense.”

Technology To drive a car, a system would need to: ◦Understand its immediate environment (Sensors) ◦Know where it is and where it wants to go (Navigation) ◦Find its way in the traffic (Motion planning) ◦Operate the mechanics of the vehicle (Actuation)

Technology Fully autonomous ◦Vehicles for paved roads ◦Free-ranging vehicles Pre-built infrastructure ◦Dual mode transit – monorail ◦Automated highway systems ◦Free-ranging on grid Driver-assistance ◦Sensorial-informative ◦Actuation-corrective ◦Systemic

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