An autonomous car is a vehicle capable of sensing its environment and operating without human involvement. A human passenger is not required to take control of the vehicle at any time, nor is a human passenger required to be present in the vehicle at all. An autonomous car can go anywhere traditional cargoes and do everything that an experienced human driver does.
The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) currently defines 6 levels of driving automation ranging from Level 0 (fully manual) to Level 5 (fully autonomous). These levels have been adopted by the U.S. Department of Transportation.
Autonomous vs. Automated vs. Self-Driving: What’s the difference?
The SAE uses the term automated instead of autonomous. One reason is that the word autonomy has implications beyond the electromechanical. A fully autonomous car would be self-aware and capable of making its own choices. For example, you say “drive me to work” but the car decides to take you to the beach instead. A fully automated car, however, would follow orders and then drive itself.
The term self-driving is often used interchangeably with autonomy. However, it’s a slightly different thing. A self-driving car can drive itself in some or even all situations, but a human passenger must always be present and ready to take control. Self-driving cars would fall under Level 3 (conditional driving automation) or Level 4 (high driving automation). They are subject to geofencing, unlike a fully autonomous Level 5 car that could go anywhere.
An autonomous vehicle is a kind of vehicle which can drive itself to the destination without any human
conduction. This is also known as driverless vehicle, self-driving vehicle or robot vehicle. Autonomous
vehicles require the combination of various sensors to detect their surroundings and interpret the
information to identify the appropriate navigation path and the obstacles in the way.
Modern vehicles provide some autonomous features like speed controls, emergency braking or keeping
the vehicle into the lane. Here, differences remain between a fully autonomous vehicle on one hand
and driver assistance technologies on the other hand.
An autonomous car is a vehicle capable of sensing its environment and operating without human involvement. A human passenger is not required to take control of the vehicle at any time, nor is a human passenger required to be present in the vehicle at all. An autonomous car can go anywhere traditional cargoes and do everything that an experienced human driver does.
The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) currently defines 6 levels of driving automation ranging from Level 0 (fully manual) to Level 5 (fully autonomous). These levels have been adopted by the U.S. Department of Transportation.
Autonomous vs. Automated vs. Self-Driving: What’s the difference?
The SAE uses the term automated instead of autonomous. One reason is that the word autonomy has implications beyond the electromechanical. A fully autonomous car would be self-aware and capable of making its own choices. For example, you say “drive me to work” but the car decides to take you to the beach instead. A fully automated car, however, would follow orders and then drive itself.
The term self-driving is often used interchangeably with autonomy. However, it’s a slightly different thing. A self-driving car can drive itself in some or even all situations, but a human passenger must always be present and ready to take control. Self-driving cars would fall under Level 3 (conditional driving automation) or Level 4 (high driving automation). They are subject to geofencing, unlike a fully autonomous Level 5 car that could go anywhere.
An autonomous vehicle is a kind of vehicle which can drive itself to the destination without any human
conduction. This is also known as driverless vehicle, self-driving vehicle or robot vehicle. Autonomous
vehicles require the combination of various sensors to detect their surroundings and interpret the
information to identify the appropriate navigation path and the obstacles in the way.
Modern vehicles provide some autonomous features like speed controls, emergency braking or keeping
the vehicle into the lane. Here, differences remain between a fully autonomous vehicle on one hand
and driver assistance technologies on the other hand.
LANE CHANGE DETECTION AND TRACKING FOR A SAFE-LANE APPROACH IN REAL TIME VISI...cscpconf
Image sequences recorded with cameras mounted in a moving vehicle provide information
about the vehicle’s environment which has to be analysed in order to really support the driver
in actual traffic situations. One type of information is the lane structure surrounding the vehicle.
Therefore, driver assistance functions which make explicit use of the lane structure represented
by lane borders and lane markings is to be analysed. Lane analysis is performed on the road
region to remove road pixels. Only lane markings are the interests for the lane detection
process. Once the lane boundaries are located, the possible edge pixels are scanned to
continuously obtain the lane model. The developed system can reduce the complexity of vision
data processing and meet the real time requirements.
Fisheye/Omnidirectional View in Autonomous Driving IVYu Huang
FisheyeMultiNet: Real-time Multi-task Learning Architecture for
Surround-view Automated Parking System
• Generalized Object Detection on Fisheye Cameras for Autonomous
Driving: Dataset, Representations and Baseline
• SynWoodScape: Synthetic Surround-view Fisheye Camera Dataset for
Autonomous Driving
• Feasible Self-Calibration of Larger Field-of-View (FOV) Camera Sensors
for the ADAS
camera-based Lane detection by deep learningYu Huang
lane detection, deep learning, autonomous driving, CNN, RNN, LSTM, GRU, lane localization, lane fitting, ego lane, end-to-end, vanishing point, segmentation, FCN, regression, classification
Project report on IR based vehicle with automatic braking and driver awakenin...Neeraj Khatri
IR Based Vehicle With AUTOMATIC BRAKING and DRIVER AWAKENING System (2014)
In this Project When any obstacle comes in front of the vehicle in a fixed range then the automatic brakes are applied and the vehicle sounds an alarm and also a very small current is produced on the steering of the vehicle. If the vehicle met with an accident then a call is generated on the last dialled number from the phone which is placed in the vehicle.
Smart infrastructure for autonomous vehicles Jeffrey Funk
These slides use concepts from my (Jeff Funk) course entitled analyzing hi-tech opportunities to analyze how autonomous vehicles are becoming economic feasible. They are becoming economically feasible because the cost of lasers, ICs, MEMS, and other electronic components are falling at 25 to 40% per year. If the cost of autonomous vehicles fall 25% a year, the cost of the electronics associated with autonomous vehicles will fall 90% in 10 years. Dedicating roads to autonomous vehicles is necessary to achieve the most benefits from autonomous vehicles. While using autonomous vehicles in combination with conventional vehicles can free drivers for other activities, dedicating roads to autonomous vehicles can dramatically reduce congestion, increase speeds, and thus increase the number of cars per area of the road. They can also reduce accidents, insurance, and the number of traffic police. These slide discuss the use of wireless technologies for the control and coordination of autonomous vehicles. Improvements in bandwidth, speed, and latency (delays) along with improvements in computer processing are occurring and these improvements are making dedicated roads for autonomous vehicles economically feasible.
Real time detection system of driver distraction.pdfReena_Jadhav
There is accumulating evidence that driver distrac- tion is a leading cause of vehicle crashes and incidents. In par- ticular, increased use of so-called in-vehicle information systems (IVIS) have raised important and growing safety concerns. Thus, detecting the driver’s state is of paramount importance, to adapt IVIS, therefore avoiding or mitigating their possible negative effects. The purpose of this presentation is to show a method for the nonintrusive and real- time detection of visual distraction, using vehicle dynamics data and without using the eye-tracker data as inputs to classifiers. Specifically, we present and compare different models that are based on well-known machine learning (ML) methods. Data for training the models were collected using a static driving simulator, with real human subjects performing a specific secondary task [i.e., a surrogate visual research task (SURT)] while driving. Different training methods, model characteristics, and feature selection criteria have been compared. Based on our results, using a BSN has outperformed all the other ML methods, providing the highest classification rate for most of the subjects.
Index Terms—Accident prevention, artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML), driver distraction and inattention, intel- ligent supporting systems.
Research presentation on Autonomous Driving. Direction perception approach.
Research work by Princeton University group.
Note: Link given in the presentation
An overview of embedded systems in automobiles(With instructional videos)Louise Antonio
This presentation on the applications of embedded systems in automobiles focusses on the two most prevalent and sought about technologies- ABS and ACC with collison avoidance, the biggest motivation being that these technologies save lives.
This Presentation describes about the concept of self driving car with uses of different technology. This presentation will be helpful for those who want to know about new technology and will also be helpful for those who want to give seminar in technical college.
LANE CHANGE DETECTION AND TRACKING FOR A SAFE-LANE APPROACH IN REAL TIME VISI...cscpconf
Image sequences recorded with cameras mounted in a moving vehicle provide information
about the vehicle’s environment which has to be analysed in order to really support the driver
in actual traffic situations. One type of information is the lane structure surrounding the vehicle.
Therefore, driver assistance functions which make explicit use of the lane structure represented
by lane borders and lane markings is to be analysed. Lane analysis is performed on the road
region to remove road pixels. Only lane markings are the interests for the lane detection
process. Once the lane boundaries are located, the possible edge pixels are scanned to
continuously obtain the lane model. The developed system can reduce the complexity of vision
data processing and meet the real time requirements.
Fisheye/Omnidirectional View in Autonomous Driving IVYu Huang
FisheyeMultiNet: Real-time Multi-task Learning Architecture for
Surround-view Automated Parking System
• Generalized Object Detection on Fisheye Cameras for Autonomous
Driving: Dataset, Representations and Baseline
• SynWoodScape: Synthetic Surround-view Fisheye Camera Dataset for
Autonomous Driving
• Feasible Self-Calibration of Larger Field-of-View (FOV) Camera Sensors
for the ADAS
camera-based Lane detection by deep learningYu Huang
lane detection, deep learning, autonomous driving, CNN, RNN, LSTM, GRU, lane localization, lane fitting, ego lane, end-to-end, vanishing point, segmentation, FCN, regression, classification
Project report on IR based vehicle with automatic braking and driver awakenin...Neeraj Khatri
IR Based Vehicle With AUTOMATIC BRAKING and DRIVER AWAKENING System (2014)
In this Project When any obstacle comes in front of the vehicle in a fixed range then the automatic brakes are applied and the vehicle sounds an alarm and also a very small current is produced on the steering of the vehicle. If the vehicle met with an accident then a call is generated on the last dialled number from the phone which is placed in the vehicle.
Smart infrastructure for autonomous vehicles Jeffrey Funk
These slides use concepts from my (Jeff Funk) course entitled analyzing hi-tech opportunities to analyze how autonomous vehicles are becoming economic feasible. They are becoming economically feasible because the cost of lasers, ICs, MEMS, and other electronic components are falling at 25 to 40% per year. If the cost of autonomous vehicles fall 25% a year, the cost of the electronics associated with autonomous vehicles will fall 90% in 10 years. Dedicating roads to autonomous vehicles is necessary to achieve the most benefits from autonomous vehicles. While using autonomous vehicles in combination with conventional vehicles can free drivers for other activities, dedicating roads to autonomous vehicles can dramatically reduce congestion, increase speeds, and thus increase the number of cars per area of the road. They can also reduce accidents, insurance, and the number of traffic police. These slide discuss the use of wireless technologies for the control and coordination of autonomous vehicles. Improvements in bandwidth, speed, and latency (delays) along with improvements in computer processing are occurring and these improvements are making dedicated roads for autonomous vehicles economically feasible.
Real time detection system of driver distraction.pdfReena_Jadhav
There is accumulating evidence that driver distrac- tion is a leading cause of vehicle crashes and incidents. In par- ticular, increased use of so-called in-vehicle information systems (IVIS) have raised important and growing safety concerns. Thus, detecting the driver’s state is of paramount importance, to adapt IVIS, therefore avoiding or mitigating their possible negative effects. The purpose of this presentation is to show a method for the nonintrusive and real- time detection of visual distraction, using vehicle dynamics data and without using the eye-tracker data as inputs to classifiers. Specifically, we present and compare different models that are based on well-known machine learning (ML) methods. Data for training the models were collected using a static driving simulator, with real human subjects performing a specific secondary task [i.e., a surrogate visual research task (SURT)] while driving. Different training methods, model characteristics, and feature selection criteria have been compared. Based on our results, using a BSN has outperformed all the other ML methods, providing the highest classification rate for most of the subjects.
Index Terms—Accident prevention, artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML), driver distraction and inattention, intel- ligent supporting systems.
Research presentation on Autonomous Driving. Direction perception approach.
Research work by Princeton University group.
Note: Link given in the presentation
An overview of embedded systems in automobiles(With instructional videos)Louise Antonio
This presentation on the applications of embedded systems in automobiles focusses on the two most prevalent and sought about technologies- ABS and ACC with collison avoidance, the biggest motivation being that these technologies save lives.
This Presentation describes about the concept of self driving car with uses of different technology. This presentation will be helpful for those who want to know about new technology and will also be helpful for those who want to give seminar in technical college.
The Future of Mixed-Autonomy Traffic (AIS302) - AWS re:Invent 2018Amazon Web Services
How will self-driving cars change urban mobility patterns? This talk examines scientific contributions in the field of reinforcement learning, presented in the context of enabling mixed-autonomy mobility—the gradual and complex integration of autonomous vehicles into existing traffic systems. We explore the potential impact of a small fraction of autonomous vehicles on low-level traffic flow dynamics, using novel techniques in model-free deep reinforcement learning. We share examples in the context of a new open-source computational platform and state-of-the-art microsimulation tools with deep-reinforcement libraries.
MODEL BASED TECHNIQUE FOR VEHICLE TRACKING IN TRAFFIC VIDEO USING SPATIAL LOC...mlaij
In this paper, we proposed a novel method for visible vehicle tracking in traffic video sequence using model based strategy combined with spatial local features. Our tracking algorithm consists of two components: vehicle detection and vehicle tracking. In the detection step, we subtract the background and obtained candidate foreground objects represented as foreground mask. After obtaining foreground mask of
candidate objects, vehicles are detected using Co-HOG descriptor. In the tracking step, vehicle model is
constructed based on shape and texture features extracted from vehicle regions using Co-HOG and CSLBP method. After constructing the vehicle model, for the current frame, vehicle features are extracted from each vehicle region and then vehicle model is updated. Finally, vehicles are tracked based on the similarity measure between current frame vehicles and vehicle models. The proposed algorithm is evaluated based on precision, recall and VTA metrics obtained on GRAM-RTM dataset and i-Lids dataset. The experimental results demonstrate that our method achieves good accuracy.
Deep neural network for lateral control of self-driving cars in urban environ...IAESIJAI
The exponential growth of the automotive industry clearly indicates that self-driving cars are the future of transportation. However, their biggest challenge lies in lateral control, particularly in urban bottlenecking environments, where disturbances and obstacles are abundant. In these situations, the ego vehicle has to follow its own trajectory while rapidly correcting deviation errors without colliding with other nearby vehicles. Various research efforts have focused on developing lateral control approaches, but these methods remain limited in terms of response speed and control accuracy. This paper presents a control strategy using a deep neural network (DNN) controller to effectively keep the car on the centerline of its trajectory and adapt to disturbances arising from deviations or trajectory curvature. The controller focuses on minimizing deviation errors. The Matlab/Simulink software is used for designing and training the DNN. Finally, simulation results confirm that the suggested controller has several advantages in terms of precision, with lateral deviation remaining below 0.65 meters, and rapidity, with a response time of 0.7 seconds, compared to traditional controllers in solving lateral control.
Application of Foundation Model for Autonomous DrivingYu Huang
Since DARPA’s Grand Challenges (rural) in 2004/05 and Urban Challenges in 2007, autonomous driving has been the most active field of AI applications. Recently powered by large language models (LLMs), chat systems, such as chatGPT and PaLM, emerge and rapidly become a promising direction to achieve artificial general intelligence (AGI) in natural language processing (NLP). There comes a natural thinking that we could employ these abilities to reformulate autonomous driving. By combining LLM with foundation models, it is possible to utilize the human knowledge, commonsense and reasoning to rebuild autonomous driving systems from the current long-tailed AI dilemma. In this paper, we investigate the techniques of foundation models and LLMs applied for autonomous driving, categorized as simulation, world model, data annotation and planning or E2E solutions etc.
Fisheye based Perception for Autonomous Driving VIYu Huang
Disentangling and Vectorization: A 3D Visual Perception Approach for Autonomous Driving Based on Surround-View Fisheye Cameras
SVDistNet: Self-Supervised Near-Field Distance Estimation on Surround View Fisheye Cameras
FisheyeDistanceNet++: Self-Supervised Fisheye Distance Estimation with Self-Attention, Robust Loss Function and Camera View Generalization
An Online Learning System for Wireless Charging Alignment using Surround-view Fisheye Cameras
RoadEdgeNet: Road Edge Detection System Using Surround View Camera Images
Fisheye/Omnidirectional View in Autonomous Driving VYu Huang
Road-line detection and 3D reconstruction using fisheye cameras
• Vehicle Re-ID for Surround-view Camera System
• SynDistNet: Self-Supervised Monocular Fisheye Camera Distance
Estimation Synergized with Semantic Segmentation for Autonomous
Driving
• Universal Semantic Segmentation for Fisheye Urban Driving Images
• UnRectDepthNet: Self-Supervised Monocular Depth Estimation using a
Generic Framework for Handling Common Camera Distortion Models
• OmniDet: Surround View Cameras based Multi-task Visual Perception
Network for Autonomous Driving
• Adversarial Attacks on Multi-task Visual Perception for Autonomous Driving
Autonomous driving for robotaxi, like perception, prediction, planning, decision making and control etc. As well as simulation, visualization and data closed loop etc.
LiDAR in the Adverse Weather: Dust, Snow, Rain and Fog (2)Yu Huang
Canadian Adverse Driving Conditions Dataset, 2020, 2
Deep multimodal sensor fusion in unseen adverse weather, 2020, 8
RADIATE: A Radar Dataset for Automotive Perception in Bad Weather, 2021, 4
Lidar Light Scattering Augmentation (LISA): Physics-based Simulation of Adverse Weather Conditions for 3D Object Detection, 2021, 7
Fog Simulation on Real LiDAR Point Clouds for 3D Object Detection in Adverse Weather, 2021, 8
DSOR: A Scalable Statistical Filter for Removing Falling Snow from LiDAR Point Clouds in Severe Winter Weather, 2021, 9
Scenario-Based Development & Testing for Autonomous DrivingYu Huang
Formal Scenario-Based Testing of Autonomous Vehicles: From Simulation to the Real World, 2020
A Scenario-Based Development Framework for Autonomous Driving, 2020
A Customizable Dynamic Scenario Modeling and Data Generation Platform for Autonomous Driving, 2020
Large Scale Autonomous Driving Scenarios Clustering with Self-supervised Feature Extraction, 2021
Generating and Characterizing Scenarios for Safety Testing of Autonomous Vehicles, 2021
Systems Approach to Creating Test Scenarios for Automated Driving Systems, Reliability Engineering and System Safety (215), 2021
How to Build a Data Closed-loop Platform for Autonomous Driving?Yu Huang
Introduction;
data driven models for autonomous driving;
cloud computing infrastructure and big data processing;
annotation tools for training data;
large scale model training platform;
model testing and verification;
related machine learning techniques;
Conclusion.
Simulation for autonomous driving at uber atgYu Huang
Testing Safety of SDVs by Simulating Perception and Prediction
LiDARsim: Realistic LiDAR Simulation by Leveraging the Real World
Recovering and Simulating Pedestrians in the Wild
S3: Neural Shape, Skeleton, and Skinning Fields for 3D Human Modeling
SceneGen: Learning to Generate Realistic Traffic Scenes
TrafficSim: Learning to Simulate Realistic Multi-Agent Behaviors
GeoSim: Realistic Video Simulation via Geometry-Aware Composition for Self-Driving
AdvSim: Generating Safety-Critical Scenarios for Self-Driving Vehicles
Appendix: (Waymo)
SurfelGAN: Synthesizing Realistic Sensor Data for Autonomous Driving
RegNet: Multimodal Sensor Registration Using Deep Neural Networks
CalibNet: Self-Supervised Extrinsic Calibration using 3D Spatial Transformer Networks
RGGNet: Tolerance Aware LiDAR-Camera Online Calibration with Geometric Deep Learning and Generative Model
CalibRCNN: Calibrating Camera and LiDAR by Recurrent Convolutional Neural Network and Geometric Constraints
LCCNet: LiDAR and Camera Self-Calibration using Cost Volume Network
CFNet: LiDAR-Camera Registration Using Calibration Flow Network
Prediction and planning for self driving at waymoYu Huang
ChauffeurNet: Learning To Drive By Imitating The Best Synthesizing The Worst
Multipath: Multiple Probabilistic Anchor Trajectory Hypotheses For Behavior Prediction
VectorNet: Encoding HD Maps And Agent Dynamics From Vectorized Representation
TNT: Target-driven Trajectory Prediction
Large Scale Interactive Motion Forecasting For Autonomous Driving : The Waymo Open Motion Dataset
Identifying Driver Interactions Via Conditional Behavior Prediction
Peeking Into The Future: Predicting Future Person Activities And Locations In Videos
STINet: Spatio-temporal-interactive Network For Pedestrian Detection And Trajectory Prediction
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Indigenized remote control interface card suitable for MAFI system CCR equipment. Compatible for IDM8000 CCR. Backplane mounted serial and TCP/Ethernet communication module for CCR remote access. IDM 8000 CCR remote control on serial and TCP protocol.
• Remote control: Parallel or serial interface.
• Compatible with MAFI CCR system.
• Compatible with IDM8000 CCR.
• Compatible with Backplane mount serial communication.
• Compatible with commercial and Defence aviation CCR system.
• Remote control system for accessing CCR and allied system over serial or TCP.
• Indigenized local Support/presence in India.
• Easy in configuration using DIP switches.
Technical Specifications
Indigenized remote control interface card suitable for MAFI system CCR equipment. Compatible for IDM8000 CCR. Backplane mounted serial and TCP/Ethernet communication module for CCR remote access. IDM 8000 CCR remote control on serial and TCP protocol.
Key Features
Indigenized remote control interface card suitable for MAFI system CCR equipment. Compatible for IDM8000 CCR. Backplane mounted serial and TCP/Ethernet communication module for CCR remote access. IDM 8000 CCR remote control on serial and TCP protocol.
• Remote control: Parallel or serial interface
• Compatible with MAFI CCR system
• Copatiable with IDM8000 CCR
• Compatible with Backplane mount serial communication.
• Compatible with commercial and Defence aviation CCR system.
• Remote control system for accessing CCR and allied system over serial or TCP.
• Indigenized local Support/presence in India.
Application
• Remote control: Parallel or serial interface.
• Compatible with MAFI CCR system.
• Compatible with IDM8000 CCR.
• Compatible with Backplane mount serial communication.
• Compatible with commercial and Defence aviation CCR system.
• Remote control system for accessing CCR and allied system over serial or TCP.
• Indigenized local Support/presence in India.
• Easy in configuration using DIP switches.
Explore the innovative world of trenchless pipe repair with our comprehensive guide, "The Benefits and Techniques of Trenchless Pipe Repair." This document delves into the modern methods of repairing underground pipes without the need for extensive excavation, highlighting the numerous advantages and the latest techniques used in the industry.
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Sachpazis:Terzaghi Bearing Capacity Estimation in simple terms with Calculati...Dr.Costas Sachpazis
Terzaghi's soil bearing capacity theory, developed by Karl Terzaghi, is a fundamental principle in geotechnical engineering used to determine the bearing capacity of shallow foundations. This theory provides a method to calculate the ultimate bearing capacity of soil, which is the maximum load per unit area that the soil can support without undergoing shear failure. The Calculation HTML Code included.
Final project report on grocery store management system..pdfKamal Acharya
In today’s fast-changing business environment, it’s extremely important to be able to respond to client needs in the most effective and timely manner. If your customers wish to see your business online and have instant access to your products or services.
Online Grocery Store is an e-commerce website, which retails various grocery products. This project allows viewing various products available enables registered users to purchase desired products instantly using Paytm, UPI payment processor (Instant Pay) and also can place order by using Cash on Delivery (Pay Later) option. This project provides an easy access to Administrators and Managers to view orders placed using Pay Later and Instant Pay options.
In order to develop an e-commerce website, a number of Technologies must be studied and understood. These include multi-tiered architecture, server and client-side scripting techniques, implementation technologies, programming language (such as PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and MySQL relational databases. This is a project with the objective to develop a basic website where a consumer is provided with a shopping cart website and also to know about the technologies used to develop such a website.
This document will discuss each of the underlying technologies to create and implement an e- commerce website.
Saudi Arabia stands as a titan in the global energy landscape, renowned for its abundant oil and gas resources. It's the largest exporter of petroleum and holds some of the world's most significant reserves. Let's delve into the top 10 oil and gas projects shaping Saudi Arabia's energy future in 2024.
Student information management system project report ii.pdfKamal Acharya
Our project explains about the student management. This project mainly explains the various actions related to student details. This project shows some ease in adding, editing and deleting the student details. It also provides a less time consuming process for viewing, adding, editing and deleting the marks of the students.
Hierarchical Digital Twin of a Naval Power SystemKerry Sado
A hierarchical digital twin of a Naval DC power system has been developed and experimentally verified. Similar to other state-of-the-art digital twins, this technology creates a digital replica of the physical system executed in real-time or faster, which can modify hardware controls. However, its advantage stems from distributing computational efforts by utilizing a hierarchical structure composed of lower-level digital twin blocks and a higher-level system digital twin. Each digital twin block is associated with a physical subsystem of the hardware and communicates with a singular system digital twin, which creates a system-level response. By extracting information from each level of the hierarchy, power system controls of the hardware were reconfigured autonomously. This hierarchical digital twin development offers several advantages over other digital twins, particularly in the field of naval power systems. The hierarchical structure allows for greater computational efficiency and scalability while the ability to autonomously reconfigure hardware controls offers increased flexibility and responsiveness. The hierarchical decomposition and models utilized were well aligned with the physical twin, as indicated by the maximum deviations between the developed digital twin hierarchy and the hardware.
CFD Simulation of By-pass Flow in a HRSG module by R&R Consult.pptxR&R Consult
CFD analysis is incredibly effective at solving mysteries and improving the performance of complex systems!
Here's a great example: At a large natural gas-fired power plant, where they use waste heat to generate steam and energy, they were puzzled that their boiler wasn't producing as much steam as expected.
R&R and Tetra Engineering Group Inc. were asked to solve the issue with reduced steam production.
An inspection had shown that a significant amount of hot flue gas was bypassing the boiler tubes, where the heat was supposed to be transferred.
R&R Consult conducted a CFD analysis, which revealed that 6.3% of the flue gas was bypassing the boiler tubes without transferring heat. The analysis also showed that the flue gas was instead being directed along the sides of the boiler and between the modules that were supposed to capture the heat. This was the cause of the reduced performance.
Based on our results, Tetra Engineering installed covering plates to reduce the bypass flow. This improved the boiler's performance and increased electricity production.
It is always satisfying when we can help solve complex challenges like this. Do your systems also need a check-up or optimization? Give us a call!
Work done in cooperation with James Malloy and David Moelling from Tetra Engineering.
More examples of our work https://www.r-r-consult.dk/en/cases-en/
Driving Behavior for ADAS and Autonomous Driving II
1. Driving Behavior for ADAS
and Autonomous Driving II
Yu Huang
Yu.huang07@gmail.com
Sunnyvale, California
2. Outline
• AutonoVi: Autonomous Planning with Dynamic Maneuvers and Traffic Constraints
• Identifying Driver Behaviors using Trajectory Features for Vehicle Navigation
• End-to-end Driving via Conditional Imitation Learning
• Conditional Affordance Learning for Driving in Urban Environments
• Failure Prediction for Autonomous Driving
• LIDAR-based Driving Path Generation Using Fully Convolutional Neural Networks
• LiDAR-Video Driving Dataset: Learning Driving Policies Effectively
• E2E Learning of Driving Models with Surround-View Cameras and Route Planners
3. AutonoVi: Autonomous Vehicle Planning with
Dynamic Maneuvers and Traffic Constraints
• AutonoVi is a novel algorithm for autonomous vehicle navigation that supports dynamic
maneuvers and satisfies traffic constraints and norms.
• It is based on optimization-based maneuver planning that supports dynamic lane-changes,
swerving, and braking in all traffic scenarios and guides the vehicle to its goal position.
• It takes into account various traffic constraints, including collision avoidance with other
vehicles, pedestrians, and cyclists using control velocity obstacles.
• A data-driven approach to model the vehicle dynamics for control and collision avoidance.
• The trajectory computation algorithm takes into account traffic rules and behaviors, such as
stopping at intersections and stoplights, based on an arc spline representation.
• Simulated scenarios include jaywalking pedestrians, sudden stops from high speeds, safely
passing cyclists, a vehicle suddenly swerving into the roadway, and high-density traffic
where the vehicle must change lanes to progress more effectively.
4. AutonoVi: Autonomous Vehicle Planning with
Dynamic Maneuvers and Traffic Constraints
The Navigation Algorithm Pipeline: The autonomous vehicle planning algorithm operates as 1) First, a
route is planned using graph-search over the network of roads. 2) Secondly, traffic and lane-following
rules are combined to create a guiding trajectory for the vehicle for the next planning phase. 3) This
guiding trajectory is transformed to generate a set of candidate control inputs. These controls are
evaluated for dynamic feasibility using the data driven vehicle dynamics modeling and collision-free
navigation via extended control obstacles. 4) Those remaining trajectories are evaluated using the
optimization technique to determine the most-appropriate set of controls for the next execution cycle.
5. AutonoVi: Autonomous Vehicle Planning with
Dynamic Maneuvers and Traffic Constraints
Finite State Machine: different behavior
states determined by the routing and
optimization algorithms.
Guiding Path Computation: The vehicle computes a
guiding path to the center of its current lane based on
a circular arc. (A): a path off the center of its current
lane. (B): abrupt changes to heading. (C): lane changes.
6. AutonoVi: Autonomous Vehicle Planning with
Dynamic Maneuvers and Traffic Constraints
Cpath: costs associated with the vehicle’s success at
tracking its path and the global route
Cvel: squared diff. btw desired speed and current speed
Cdrift: squared distance btw the center line of the
vehicle’s lane and its current position
Cprog: vehicle’s desire to maximally progress along its
current path
Path Cost:
Comfort Costs:
caccel penalizes large accelerations and decelerations.
cyawr penalizes large heading changes and discourages sharp turning.
7. AutonoVi: Autonomous Vehicle Planning with
Dynamic Maneuvers and Traffic Constraints
Maneuver Costs:
WrongLane: true if the vehicle’s lane does not match the lane
for the next maneuver.
LaneChanged: true if a candidate path crosses a lane boundary.
Proximity Costs:
Ctype: constant, larger for pedestrians and bicycles than for vehicles, and
guides the ego-vehicle to pass those entities with greater distance.
8. AutonoVi: Autonomous Vehicle Planning with
Dynamic Maneuvers and Traffic Constraints
Acceleration and steering functions, A(v, ut) and
Φ(v, us), respectively, describe the relationship
btw the vehicle’s speed, steering, and control
inputs and its potential for changes in the
acceleration and steering.
Given the generated functions S, A, and Φ, the future path of the vehicle can be evaluated quickly
for planning future controls.
Safety function S(u, X) determines if a set of
controls is feasible, given the vehicle state.
9. AutonoVi: Autonomous Vehicle Planning with
Dynamic Maneuvers and Traffic Constraints
Results: (A) and (B): The ego-vehicle is forced to stop as a pedestrian enters the roadway. Once the
pedestrian has moved away, the vehicle resumes its course. (C) and (D): The ego-vehicle approaches
a slower moving vehicle from behind. (E): The Hatchback ego-vehicle during the S-Turns benchmark.
(F): An overview of the Simulated City benchmark. (G): The ego-vehicle (outlined in green) yields to an
oncoming vehicle (outlined in red) during the Simulated City benchmark. (H): The ego-vehicle (outlined
in green) stops in traffic waiting for a stoplight to change.
10. Identifying Driver Behaviors using Trajectory
Features for Vehicle Navigation
• To automatically identify driver behaviors from vehicle trajectories and use them for safe
navigation of autonomous vehicles.
• A set of features easily extracted from car trajectories, then a data-driven mapping between
these features and 6 driver behaviors using an elaborate web-based user study.
• A summarized score indicating awareness level while driving next to other vehicles.
• Driving Behavior Computation: Trajectory to Driver Behavior Mapping (TDBM), factor
analysis on 6 behaviors, derived from 2 common behaviors: aggressiveness and carefulness,
four more behaviors as reckless, threatening, cautious, and timid.
• Improved Real-time Navigation: enhance AutonoVi to navigate accord. to the neighboring
drivers’ behavior, identify potentially dangerous drivers in real-time and chooses a path that
avoids potentially dangerous drivers.
11. Identifying Driver Behaviors using Trajectory
Features for Vehicle Navigation
During the training of TDBM, extract features from the trajectory database and conduct a user
evaluation to find the mapping between them. During the navigation stage, compute a set of
trajectory and extract the features, then compute the driving behavior using TDBM. Finally, plan for
real-time navigation, taking into account these driver behaviors.
12. Identifying Driver Behaviors using Trajectory
Features for Vehicle Navigation
10 candidate features f0,…,f9 for selection. Features in
green are selected for mapping to behavior-metrics
only, and those in blue are selected for mapping to
both behavior-metrics and attention metrics.
Denote longitudinal jerk jl and progressive jerk jp
13. Identifying Driver Behaviors using Trajectory
Features for Vehicle Navigation
Two example videos used in the user study. Participants are
asked to rate the 6 driving behavior metrics and 4 attention
metrics of the target car colored in red.
6 Driving Behavior metrics (b0, b1, ...,b5) and 4 Attention
metrics (b6, b7, b8, b9) used in TDBM.
Least absolute shrinkage and selection operator
(Lasso) analysis based on the objective function
15. End-to-end Driving via Conditional
Imitation Learning
• Deep networks trained on demo. of human driving learn to follow roads and avoid obstacles.
• However, driving policies trained via imitation learning cannot be controlled at test time.
• A vehicle trained e2e to imitate cannot be guided to take a turn at an up- coming intersection.
• Condition imitation learning:
• At training time, the model is given not only the perceptual input and the control signal, but also a
representation of the expert’s intention.
• At test time, the network can be given corresponding commands, which resolve the ambiguity in
the perceptuomotor mapping and allow the trained model to be controlled by a passenger or a
topological planner, just as mapping applications and passengers provide turn-by-turn directions
to human drivers.
• The trained network is thus freed from the task of planning and can devote its representational
capacity to driving.
• This enables scaling imitation learning to vision-based driving in complex urban environments.
16. End-to-end Driving via Conditional
Imitation Learning
Conditional imitation learning allows an autonomous vehicle trained e2e to be directed by high-level commands.
17. End-to-end Driving via Conditional
Imitation Learning
expose the latent state h to the controller by
introducing an additional command input: c = c(h).
The controller receives an observation ot from the
environ. and a command ct. It produces an action at
that affects the environment, advancing to the next
time step.
18. End-to-end Driving via Conditional
Imitation Learning
Two network architectures for command-conditional imitation learning. (a) command input: the
command is processed as input by the network, together with the image and the measurements. The
same architecture can be used for goal-conditional learning (one of the baselines), by replacing the
command by a vector pointing to the goal. (b) branched: the command acts as a switch that selects
btw specialized sub-modules.
j = J(i, m, c) = ⟨I(i), M(m), C(c)⟩ F(i, m, ci) = Ai(J(i, m)).
19. End-to-end Driving via Conditional
Imitation Learning
• To use CARLA, an urban driving simulator, to corroborate design decisions and evaluate the
proposed approach in a dynamic urban environment with traffic.
• A human driver is presented with a first-person view of the environment (center camera) at
a resolution of 800×600 pixels.
• The driver controls the simulated vehicle using a physical steering wheel and pedals, and
provides command input using buttons on the steering wheel.
• The driver keeps the car at a speed below 60 km/h and strives to avoid collisions with cars
and pedestrians, but ignores traffic lights and stop signs.
• To record images from the 3 simulated cameras, along with other measurements such as
speed and the position of the car.
• The images are cropped to remove part of the sky.
• CARLA also provides extra info. such as distance travelled, collisions, and the occurrence of
infractions such as drift onto the opposite lane or the sidewalk.
• This info. is used in evaluating different controllers.
20. End-to-end Driving via Conditional
Imitation Learning
Physical system setup. Red/black
indicate +/- power wires, green
indicates serial data connections,
and blue indicates PWM control
signals.
21. Conditional Affordance Learning for Driving
in Urban Environments
• Autonomous driving:
• 1) modular pipelines, that build an extensive model of the environment;
• 2) imitation learning approaches, that map images directly to control outputs.
• 3) direct perception, combine 1)+2) by NN to learn appropriate intermediate representations.
• Existing direct perception approaches are restricted to simple highway situations, lacking the ability to
navigate intersections, stop at traffic lights or respect speed limits.
• A direct perception approach maps video input to intermediate representations suitable for
autonomous navigation in complex urban environments given high-level directional inputs.
• Goal-directed navigation on the challenging CARLA simulation benchmark.
• handle traffic lights, speed signs and smooth car-following.
22. Conditional Affordance Learning for Driving
in Urban Environments
Conditional Affordance Learning (CAL) for Autonomous Urban Driving. The input video
and the high-level directional input are fed into a NN which predicts a set of affordances.
These affordances are used by a controller to calculate the control commands.
23. Conditional Affordance Learning for Driving
in Urban Environments
The CAL agent (top) receives the current camera image and a directional command from CARLA (“straight”, “left”, “right”).
The feature extractor converts the image into a feature map. The agent stores the last N feature maps in memory. This
sequence of feature maps, together with the directional commands from the planner, are exploited by the task blocks to
predict affordances. The control commands calculated by the controller are sent back to CARLA.
24. Conditional Affordance Learning for Driving
in Urban Environments
• A intermediate representation should be low-dimensional for autonomous navigation:
• (i) the agent should be able to drive from A to B as fast as possible while obeying traffic rules.
• (ii) infractions against traffic rules should be avoided at all times (6 types):
• Driving on the wrong lane, driving on the sidewalk, running a red light, colliding with other vehicles,
hitting pedestrians and hitting static objects.
• The speed limit must be obeyed at all times.
• (iii) the agent should be able to provide a pleasant driving experience.
• The car should stay in the center of the road and take turns smoothly.
• It should be able to follow a leading car at a safe distance.
• Controller: longitudinal controller to the throttle and brake, lateral controller to the steering;
• Longitudinal control: subdivided into several states as (>importance) cruising, following, over limit,
red light, and hazard stop; apply the PID controller.
• Lateral control: apply the Stanley Controller (SC) which uses 2 error metrics as the distance to
centerline d(t) and the relative angle ψ(t).
• Perception: a multi-task learning (MTL) problem, using a single NN to predict all affordances
in a single forward pass.
25. Conditional Affordance Learning for Driving
in Urban Environments
Affordances. Categorize affordances according to their type (discrete/continuous) and whether
they are conditional (dependent on directional input) or unconditional. The affordances (red)
and observation areas used by our model.
26. Failure Prediction for Autonomous Driving
• Driving models may fail more likely at places with heavy traffic, at complex intersections,
and/or under adverse weather/illumination conditions.
• Here is a method to learn to predict the occurrence of these failures, i.e. to assess how
difficult a scene is to a given driving model and to possibly give the driver an early headsup.
• A camera- based driving model is developed and trained over real driving datasets.
• The discrepancies between the model’s predictions and the human ‘ground-truth’
maneuvers were then recorded, to yield the ‘failure’ scores.
• The prediction method is able to improve the overall safety of an automated driving model
by alerting the human driver timely, leading to better human-vehicle collaborative driving.
• Scene Drivability, i.e. how easy a scene is for an automated car to navigate.
• A low drivability score means that the automated vehicle is likely to fail for the particular scene.
• To quantize the scene drivability scores for driving scenes: Safe and Hazardous.
27. Failure Prediction for Autonomous Driving
The architecture of the
driving model which
provides future maneuvers
(i.e. speed and steering
angle) and the drivability
score of the scene. The
drivability scores are
quantized into two levels:
Safe and Hazardous. In
this case, the coming
scene is Safe for the
driving model, so the
system does not need to
alert the human driver.
29. Failure Prediction for Autonomous Driving
A safe scene allows for a driving mode of High
Automation and a hazardous scene allows for a
driving mode of Partial/No Automation. These
thresholds can be set and tuned according to specific
driving models and legal regulations.
30. Failure Prediction for Autonomous Driving
An illustrative flowchart of the training procedure and solution
space of the driving model and the failure prediction model.
31. Failure Prediction for Autonomous Driving
Scene examples with their drivability scores, quantized into two levels: Safe and Hazardous
for rows, and the confidence of the prediction in columns ranging from high to low.
32. LIDAR-based Driving Path Generation Using
Fully Convolutional Neural Networks
• Mediated perception: modularity and interpretation;
• Behavior reflex: black box which maps raw input to control actions.
• A learning-based approach to generate driving paths by integrating LIDAR point clouds,
GPS-IMU information, and Google driving directions.
• A FCN jointly learns to carry out perception and path generation from real-world driving
sequences and that is trained using automatically generated training examples.
• It helps fill the gap between low-level scene parsing and behavior-reflex approaches by
generating outputs close to vehicle control and at the same time human-interpretable.
• Google Maps is used to obtain driving instructions when approaching locations where multiple
direction can be taken.
• When queried given the current position and a certain destination, Google Maps returns a human
interpretable driving action, such as turn left or take exit, together with an approximate distance of
where that action should be taken.
• intention direction id ∈ {left, straight, right}, and intention proximity ip ∈ [0, 1].
33. LIDAR-based Driving Path Generation Using
Fully Convolutional Neural Networks
Overview of the I/O tensors relative to a validation example. (A) Forward acceleration. (B) Forward speed. (C) Yaw
rate. (D) Intention proximity. (E) Max elevation. (F) Average reflectivity. (G) Future path ground-truth. (H) Intention
direction. (I) Overlay of occupancy LIDAR image with ground-truth past (red) and future path (blue).
34. LIDAR-based Driving Path Generation Using
Fully Convolutional Neural Networks
A schematic illustration of the FCN
35. LIDAR-based Driving Path Generation Using
Fully Convolutional Neural Networks
Qualitative comparison of the FCN’s
performance using several combinations
of sensor and information modalities.
The blue for the future path, the red for
the past path. (A) and (B) where
intention information was particularly
useful: only Lidar-IMU-INT and Lidar-INT
were able to predict accurate paths. (C)
for IMU info. to predict the future path,
especially when a turning maneuver is
recently initiated. (D) for a single road
ahead; with the exception of IMU-only, all
the other FCNs predicted accurate paths
in this case.
36. LIDAR-based Driving Path Generation Using
Fully Convolutional Neural Networks
In each column, the top panel shows the occupancy top-view overlayed with the past path (red) and the Lidar-IMU-INT’s
future path prediction (blue). The bottom panels are the driving intention proximity (left) and driving intention direction
(right). Column A where there is disagreement between the driving intention (turn right) and the LIDAR point cloud that
shows a straight road with no exits. Columns B–D where multiple directions are possible.
37. LiDAR-Video Driving Dataset: Learning
Driving Policies Effectively
• A LiDAR-Video dataset, provides large-scale high-quality point clouds scanned by a
Velodyne laser, videos recorded by a dashboard camera and standard drivers’ behaviors.
38. LiDAR-Video Driving Dataset: Learning
Driving Policies Effectively
The data collection platform with multiple sensors.
39. LiDAR-Video Driving Dataset: Learning
Driving Policies Effectively
The pipeline of data preprocessing when constructing dataset.
40. LiDAR-Video Driving Dataset: Learning
Driving Policies Effectively
• Discrete action prediction: to predict current probability distribution over all possible actions.
• The limitation of discrete prediction is that autonomous vehicle can only make decisions
among limited predefined actions.
• not suitable for real driving, since it is too coarse to guide the vehicle driving.
• Continuous prediction: to predict current states of vehicles such as wheel angle and vehicle
speed as a regression task.
• If driving policies on all real-world states can be predicted correctly, vehicles are expected to be
driven successfully by trained model.
• Model driving process as a continuous prediction task: to train a model that receives
multiple perception information including video frames and point clouds, thus predict
correct steering angles and vehicle speeds.
• Learning tools: DNN + LSTM.
• Depth representation: Point Cloud Mapping and PointNet.
41. LiDAR-Video Driving Dataset: Learning
Driving Policies Effectively
The pipeline of extracting feature maps from raw point clouds. Firstly, split XOZ plain into small
grids, one of which is corresponding to specific one pixel in feature maps. Secondly, group raw points by
projecting points into grids in XOZ. Then calculate feature values (F-values) in each grid. Finally, generate
feature maps by visualizing feature matrix and rendering with jet color map.
43. End-to-End Learning of Driving Models with
Surround-View Cameras and Route Planners
• A surround-view camera system, a route planner, and a CAN bus reader.
• A sensor setup provides data for a 360-degree view surrounding the vehicle, the driving
route, and low-level driving maneuvers by human drivers.
• A driving dataset covers diverse driving scenarios and weather/illumination conditions.
• Learn a driving model by integrating info. from the surround-views and the route planner.
• Two route planners are exploited:
• 1) by representing the planned routes on OpenStreetMap as a stack of GPS coordinates;
• 2) by rendering the routes on TomTom Go Mobile and recording the progression into a video.
• Data and code: http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/~heckers/Drive360.
44. End-to-End Learning of Driving Models with
Surround-View Cameras and Route Planners
An illustration of the driving system
45. End-to-End Learning of Driving Models with
Surround-View Cameras and Route Planners
• Cameras provide a 360-degree view of the area surrounding the vehicle.
• The driving maps or GPS coordinates generated by the route planner and the videos from
our cameras are synchronized; they are used as inputs to train the driving model.
• The driving model consists of CNN networks for feature encoding, LSTM networks to
integrate the outputs of the CNNs over time and FCN to integrate info. from multiple
sensors to predict the driving maneuvers.
• A driving dataset of 60 hours, featuring videos from eight surround-view cameras, two
forms of data representation for a route planner, low-level driving maneuvers, and GPS-IMU
data of the vehicle’s odometry;
• To keep the task tractable, learn the driving model in an E2E manner, i.e. to map inputs from
the surround-view cameras and the route planner directly to low-level maneuvers of the car.
• The incorporation of detection and tracking modules for traffic agents (e.g. cars and
pedestrians) and traffic control devices (e.g. traffic lights and signs) is future work.
46. End-to-End Learning of Driving Models with
Surround-View Cameras and Route Planners
camera rig
rig on the vehicle
The configuration of cameras.
The rig is 1.6 meters wide so
that the side- view cameras
can have a good view of road
surface without the
obstruction by the roof of the
vehicle. The cameras are
evenly distributed laterally and
angularly.
47. End-to-End Learning of Driving Models with
Surround-View Cameras and Route Planners
• 1. TomTom Map represents one of the s-o-t-a commercial maps for driving applications, it
does not provide open APIs to access their ‘raw’ data.
• Exploit the visual info. provided by Tom- Tom GO Mobile App, and recorded rendered map views
using screen recording.
• Since map rendering rather slow updates, capture at 30 fps with size of 1280 × 720.
• 2. It uses the real-time routing method [Luxen & Vetter] for OSM data as route planner.
• The past driving trajectories (GPS coordinates) are provided to the routing algorithm to localize
the vehicle, and the GPS tags of the planned road for the next 300m ahead are taken as the
representation of the planned route for the ‘current’ position.
• Because the GPS tags of the road networks of OSM are not distributed evenly according to
distance, fit a cubic smoothing spline to the obtained GPS tags and then sampled 300 data points
from the fitted spline with a stride of 1m.
• For the OSM route planner, a 300 × 2 matrix (300 GPS coordinates) as the representation of the
planned route for every ‘current’ position.
48. End-to-End Learning of Driving Models with
Surround-View Cameras and Route Planners
• Human Driving Maneuvers: record low level driving maneuvers, i.c. the steering wheel angle
and vehicle speed, registered on the CAN bus of the car at 50Hz.
• The CAN protocol is a simple ID and data payload broadcasting protocol that is used for low level
info. broadcasting in a vehicle.
• Read out the specific CAN IDs and corresponding payload for steering wheel angle and vehicle
speed via a CAN-to-USB device and record them on a computer connected to the bus.
• Vehicle’s Odometry: use the GoPro cameras’ built-in GPS and IMU module to record GPS
data at 18Hz and IMU measurements at 200Hz while driving.
• This data is then extracted and parsed from the meta-track of the GoPro created video.
• Synchronization: the internal clocks of all sensors are synchronized to the GPS clock.
• The resulting synchronization error for the video frames is up to 8.3 milliseconds (ms).
50. End-to-End Learning of Driving Models with
Surround-View Cameras and Route Planners
Qualitative results for driving action prediction, to compare 3 cases to the front camera-only-
model: (1) learning with TomTom route planner, (2) learning with surround-view cameras (3)
learning with TomTom route planner and surround- view cameras.
51. End-to-End Learning of Driving Models with
Surround-View Cameras and Route Planners
The architecture of
the Surround-View
and TomTom route
planner model.
Qualitative evaluation
of Surround-View +
TomTom and Front-
Camera-Only models.