Towards a Viable Autonomous Driving Research Platform - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

Towards a Viable Autonomous Driving Research Platform

Junqing Wei, Jarrod M. Snider, Junsung Kim, John M. Dolan, Raj Rajkumar, and Bakhtiar Litkouhi
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV '13), pp. 763 - 770, June, 2013

Abstract

We present an autonomous driving research vehicle with minimal appearance modifications that is capable of a wide range of autonomous and intelligent behaviors, including smooth and comfortable trajectory generation and following; lane keeping and lane changing; intersection handling with or without V2I and V2V; and pedestrian, bicyclist, and workzone detection. Safety and reliability features include a fault-tolerant computing system; smooth and intuitive autonomous-manual switching; and the ability to fully disengage and power down the drive-by-wire and computing system upon E-stop. The vehicle has been tested extensively on both a closed test field and public roads.

BibTeX

@conference{Wei-2013-7745,
author = {Junqing Wei and Jarrod M. Snider and Junsung Kim and John M. Dolan and Raj Rajkumar and Bakhtiar Litkouhi},
title = {Towards a Viable Autonomous Driving Research Platform},
booktitle = {Proceedings of IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV '13)},
year = {2013},
month = {June},
pages = {763 - 770},
}