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Active Sensor Control for Neural Net Lane Tracking (Panacea)
This project is no longer active.
Head: Rahul Sukthankar
Contact: Rahul Sukthankar (rahuls@cs.cmu.edu)
Mailing address:
Carnegie Mellon University
Robotics Institute
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Associated center: VASC
Associated lab/group: NavLab
For more information, see this project's homepage.
Panacea is a modular system which incorporates a steerable sensor into an existing neural network driving system, ALVINN. A fixed camera cannot see the road when it makes sharp bends. For a vision system that builds a map of the road, it is straightforward to point the camera down the road; but ALVINN directly outputs a steering command without generating an intermediate road representation. Insight from the training scheme used in ALVINN, however, provides an interpretation of the steering command in terms of the road geometry and appropriate camera pointing strategies. Tests on the Carnegie Mellon Navlab II with a steerable camera have shown that the system significantly improves ALVINN's performance, particularly in situations requiring sharp turns and quick responses.
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