Autonomous driving in unstructed environments has attracted an unprecedented level of attention when the DARPA announced the Grand Challenge Competitions in 2004 and 2005. Autonomous driving involves (at least) three major subtasks: perception of the environment, path planning and subsequent vehicle control. Whereas the latter has proven a solved problem, the first two constituted, apart from hardware failures, the most prominent source of errors in both Grand Challenges. This paper presents a system for real-time feature detection and subsequent path planning based on multiple stereoscopic and monoscopic vision cues. The algorithm is, in principle, suitable for arbitrary environments as the features are not tailored to a particular application. A slightly modified version of the system described here has been succesfully used in the Qualifications and the Final Race of the Grand Challenge 2005 within the Desert Buckeyes' autonomous vehicle.


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    Title :

    Vision-based path-planning in unstructured environments


    Contributors:
    Hummel, B. (author) / Kammel, S. (author) / Thao Dang, (author) / Duchow, C. (author) / Stiller, C. (author)


    Publication date :

    2006-01-01


    Size :

    7001025 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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