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Behavior analysis of vehicles surrounding the egovehicle is an essential component in safe and pleasant autonomous driving. This study develops a framework for activity classification of observed on-road vehicles using 3D trajectory cues and a Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) model. As a case study, we aim to classify maneuvers of surrounding vehicles at four way intersections. LIDAR, GPS, and IMU measurements...
Performance measures and adaptive control methodologies for traffic signal systems currently require intersections to be instrumented with vehicle detectors and communication equipment, which can require substantial engineering resources to deploy and maintain. Recent studies have explored the use of Connected Vehicle (CV) data for signal performance measures at various levels of market penetration,...
Visible Light Communication (VLC) is a new emerging technology that is being proposed as a reliable and supportive choice for short range communications in ITS. On the same context, Laser Range Finders (LRF) sensors are used for the vehicular environment perception. Compared to VLC, LRF can provide more coverage range and extended viewing angle. To take the full advantages of both technologies features,...
Realistic simulations of microscopic traffic are required by a wide range of applications, from the design of local infrastructure solutions, to the testing of vehicle-tailored traffic management strategies, particularly in the context of an upcoming mixed traffic involving connected and autonomous vehicles. Recent studies point out that an accurate knowledge of the heterogeneity of vehicles behaviour...
The optimal speed trajectory for a heavy duty truck is calculated by using the Pontryagin's maximum principle. The truck motion depends on controllable tractive and braking forces and external forces such as air and rolling resistance and road slope. The solution is subject to restrictions such as maximum power and position dependent speed restrictions. The intended application is driving in environments...
This paper presents a real-time motion planning scheme for urban autonomous driving that will be deployed as a basis for cooperative maneuvers defined in the European project AutoNet2030. We use a path-velocity decomposition approach to separate the motion planning problem into a path planning problem and a velocity planning problem. The path planner first generates a collision-free piecewise linear...
Both safety and non-safety applications of vehicular networks rely on accurate position information. However, accurate localization of a vehicle in a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) denied environment is a challenging and still open research problem. The 802.11p dedicated short-range communication systems (DSRC), designed for vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications,...
The detection of lane layout in the surroundings of the ego-vehicle is a key issue for modern ADAS and autonomous driving. Most modern systems rely on annotated spatial maps to provide lane information. However, these maps are not available everywhere, and thus have to be often supported by direct detection systems (e.g. cameras, lasers). Such systems detect lane boundaries by directly observing lane...
The Highly Automated Driving Map (HAD Map), is an essential and significant research topic in automated driving. In the meanwhile, the corrugated beam guardrail, known as one kind of the traffic crash barrier, is one of the most important elements in the HAD Map. Our novel contribution in this paper is proposing a method to detect corrugated beam guardrail automatically from mobile laser scanning...
Many vision-based systems have been proposed for intersection monitoring, but few of them use wide angle cameras. In this paper, we present a fisheye-stereo monitoring system that will be installed especially in rural areas. Our goal is to estimate the extrinsic calibration decoupled into a rotation followed by a translation. In the context of rural intersections, methods that purely rely on the geometry...
In this paper, an impedance control scheme for aerial robotic manipulators is proposed, with the aim of reducing the end-effector interaction forces with the environment. The proposed control has a multi-level architecture, in detail the outer loop is composed by a trajectory generator and an impedance filter that modifies the trajectory to achieve a complaint behaviour in the end-effector space;...
In this paper, we present a motion planning algorithm for autonomous navigation in highly constrained urban environments. Since common approaches to on-road trajectory planning turned out to be unsuitable for this task, we instead extended an A*-based planner originally designed for navigation in unstructured environments. Two novel node expansion methods were added to obtain smooth and accurate trajectories...
Potential disruption stemming from self-driving vehicle (SDV) technology may change not just vehicles, but the foundations of our mobilities. As an example of analysing SDV technological development, this paper focuses on SDV intersection control. The starting premise is that technological development requires an understanding of previous developmental trajectories and potential future needs, rather...
Automated driving is a safety critical process, which requires complex decision making. In order to validate driving decisions, it is possible to maintain at all times a contingency maneuver, which transfers the vehicle to a safe standstill, if other decision making processes fail. In this paper we present a motion planner, which computes contingency maneuvers for an automated vehicle in a 0.1[s]...
This paper presents an online optimization-based approach to compute trajectories to enable substitution of robots in formation-based deployments with durations that exceed the energy capacity of individual systems. The proposed algorithm computes trajectories in a multi-robot context to ensure a collision-free exchange, even where congestion is a concern. The quality of the resulting trajectories...
Mobility On Demand (MOD) systems are revolutionizing transportation in urban settings by improving vehicle utilization and reducing parking congestion. A key factor in the success of an MOD system is the ability to measure and respond to real-time customer arrival data. Real time traffic arrival rate data is traditionally difficult to obtain due to the need to install fixed sensors throughout the...
In the last decade, consumer electronic devices such as smartphones, are packaged with small cameras, gyroscopes, and accelerometers, all sensors allowing autonomous deployment of aerial robots in GPS-denied environments. Our previous work [1], demonstrated the feasibility of using smartphones for autonomous flight. In many applications, there is a large interest to the use multiple autonomous aerial...
This paper presents a robust motion planning methodology for autonomous tracked vehicles navigating in a rough and unknown environment. Two fields of study are dealt with in this paper: motion planning and slip estimation. For the motion planner, the CC-RRT* algorithm is combined with LQG-MP. The motion planner uses a chance-constrained approach and considers the role of compensator in the planning...
In this paper, we model an aerial vehicle, specifically a quadrotor, and a load attached to each other by a rigid link. We assume a torque input at the joint between the aerial vehicle and the rigid link is available. After modeling, we decouple the system dynamics in two separate subsystems, one concerning the position of the center of mass, which we control independently from the chosen torque input;...
We investigated different dense multirotor UAV traffic simulation scenarios in open 2D and 3D space, under realistic environments with the presence of sensor noise, communication delay, limited communication range, limited sensor update rate and finite inertia. We implemented two fundamental self-organized algorithms: one with constant direction and one with constant velocity preference to reach a...
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