Experience from the DARPA Urban Challenge

Experience from the DARPA Urban Challenge provides details of the types of systems, software and processes that were used to develop the complex unmanned vehicles that participated in the DARPA Urban Challenge. The vehicle developers explain how autonomous vehicle software in this race was designed...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Rouff, Christopher (Editor), Hinchey, Mike (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Springer London 2012, 2012
Edition:1st ed. 2012
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Software Infrastructure for a Mobile Robot
  • The Sting Racing Team’s Entry to the Urban Challenge
  • Development of the NaviGATOR for the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge
  • The VictorTangoArchitecture for Autonomous Navigation in the DARPA Urban Challenge
  • Real-time Obstacles Avoidance for Vehicles in the Urban Grand Challenge
  • Planning Continuous Curvature Paths Using Constructive Polylines
  • Steering Controller of the CajunBot-II
  • Vehicle Architecture and Robotic Perception for Autonomous Driving in Urban Environments
  • Engineering Autonomous Driving Software
  • Empirical Evaluation of an Autonomous Vehicle in an Urban Environment