PTRS-A paper
This page has some information about a planned paper on autonomous driving that we are writing for a special issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A on dynamics and control of traffic.
Paper outline
- Title: Autonomous Driving in Urban Environments: Approaches, Lessons and Challenges
- Authors: Mark Campbell, Magnus Egerstedt, Jonathan How, Richard Murray
This paper provides a summary of the current state of the art in autonomous driving in urban environments, based primarily on the experiences of the authors in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge. The paper briefly summarizes the approaches that different teams used in approach the challenge of driving in urban environments, with the goal of describing some of the challenges that the teams faced. The paper highlights the long term research challenges that must be overcome in order to enable autonomous driving and points to opportunities for new technologies to be applied in improving vehicle safety, enabling intelligent road infrastructure and robotic vehicles operating in human environments.
I. Introduction
II. Approaches and Lessons from the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge
- A. Urban Challenge Overview
- B. System Architecture
- C. Competition Overview
- D. Other Teams
III. Challenges in Autonomous Driving
- A. Systems integration
- B. Prediction and trust
- C. Interactions between agents
- D. Learning
- E. Scaling up
- F. Verification and validation
IV. Opportunities for Autonomous Vehicle Technologies
V. Conclusions
Useful references
System descriptions:
- Caltech: DARPA final report
- Cornell: J. Field Robotics
- Georgia Tech J. Aerospace computing
- MIT: J. Field Robotics
Other relevant papers:
- Cornell/MIT collision: J. Field Robotics
Deadlines and guidelines
- Deadline for submission: 31 Aug 09
- Expected publication date: late 2009, early 2010 (after review)
- Author guidelines: http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/site/misc/authors.xhtml
- Preparation guidelines: http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/site/misc/style-guide.xhtml