ALVINN: An Autonomous Land Vehicle In a Neural Network - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

ALVINN: An Autonomous Land Vehicle In a Neural Network

Dean Pomerleau
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (NeurIPS) Neural Information Processing Systems, pp. 305 - 313, December, 1989

Abstract

ALVINN (Autonomous Land Vehicle In a Neural Network) is a 3-layer back-propagation network designed for the task of road following. Currently ALVINN takes images from a camera and a laser range finder as input and produces as output the direction the vehicle should travel in order to follow the road. Training has been conducted using simulated road images. Successful tests on the Carnegie Mellon autonomous navigation test vehicle indicate that the network can effectively follow real roads under certain field conditions. The representation developed to perform the task differs dramatically when the network is trained under various conditions, suggesting the possibility of a novel adaptive autonomous navigation system capable of tailoring its processing to the conditions at hand.

BibTeX

@conference{Pomerleau-1989-15721,
author = {Dean Pomerleau},
title = {ALVINN: An Autonomous Land Vehicle In a Neural Network},
booktitle = {Proceedings of (NeurIPS) Neural Information Processing Systems},
year = {1989},
month = {December},
editor = {D.S. Touretzky},
pages = {305 - 313},
publisher = {Morgan Kaufmann},
}
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