An overview of an autonomous helicopter test-bed project at the Autonomous Robots Lab of the University of Southern California is presented. The core of this test-bed is a new autonomous helicopter, the Autonomous Flying Vehicle-II (AFV-II). The AFV-II is an evolution of the original AFV vehicle described in Lewis et al., (1993). The major features of the new vehicle system are: An on-board red...

Autonomous vehicles are the upcoming smart expected to be efficient, crash avoiding and driver less ideal urban vehicle. To attain this goal many organizations started research in field solve real time problems faced during development of autonomous vehicles. The first challenge phase is customize existing technology develop vehicle with latest technologies. future expectation fully automated w...

People have been thinking about driverless cars since the dawn of automobiles themselves. Infact even in ancient scriptures and epics, autonomous transportation some kind or other has mentioned time again. With time, mankind progressed once a dream car became reality. great power comes responsibility. So without morality AI, there is nothing good vehicles. Here moral machine experiment. In this...

This paper describes the vehicle guidance system of an autonomous vehicle. This system is part of the control structure of the vehicle and consists of a path generator, a motion planning algorithm and a sensor fusion module. A stereo vision sensor and a DGPS sensor are used as position sensors. The trajectory for the vehicle motion is generated in a rst step by using only information from a dig...

The TerraMax vehicle is based on Oshkosh Truck’s Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement truck platform and was one of the five vehicles able to successfully reach the finish line of the 132 miles DARPA Grand Challenge desert race. Due to its size 30 000 pounds, 27 0 long, 8 4 wide, and 8 2 high and the narrow passages, TerraMax had to travel slowly, but its capabilities demonstrated the maturity o...