12 1094-7167/03/$17.00 © 2003 IEEE IEEE INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS industry has established more than 600 joint ventures and introduced 1,000 foreign technical inventions over the last 20 years. The total foreign investment has exceeded US$20 billion, more than 40 percent of the total Chinese automotive capital. The 2001 output reached 2.34 million vehicles, up from 0.71 million in 1991. This is a 3.3...

Perhaps the most successful development of the ARPA Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) program is the ALVINN autonomous driving system. ALVINN is a neural network system that locates the road in images from a video camera mounted on a UGV and steers the vehicle to follow it. ALVINN has been demonstrated on several HMM WV test vehicles driving at speeds of up to 70 mph, and for distances of over 90 m...

An analysis of navigational accuracy when influenced by ground vehicle dynamics is presented. Tests beds outfitted with various sensor suites were used to collect data when normal and extreme driving maneuvers are executed. The data was run through an extended Kalman filter to produce a navigation solution. The Kalman filter inputs varied on each test bed, using both automotive and tactical gra...

s multi-threaded processing, exact system signal control, and Ethernet transfer between computers. The Player server offers a powerful, easy, and innovative approach to systems integration. On each computer with an operating system, Player runs as a server providing device interfaces. Device interfaces are implemented as plugins to the Player server. For example, on the EDA Player runs a driver...

This paper presents the design and implementation of a driverless car for populated urban environments. We propose a system that explicitly map the static obstacles, detects and track the moving obstacle, consider the unobserved areas, provide a motion plan with safety guarantees and executes it. All of it was implemented and integrated into a single computer maneuvering on real time an electri...

This paper deals with the basic design and implementation of the mathematical motion model of an autonomous unmanned ground vehicle. This model comes from the specific construction of the vehicle, which was designed in order to verify and demonstrate its autonomous motion possibilities indoors and outdoors. This article presents two different issues of the basic model: a) computing vehicle posi...

The DARPA Urban Challenge required robots to drive 60 miles on suburban roads while following the rules of the road in interactions with human drivers and other robots. Tartan Racing’s Boss won the competition, completing the course in just over 4 hours. This paper describes the software infrastructure developed by the team to support the perception, planning, behavior generation, and other art...

Jelajah V-18 is an autonomous vehicle prototype where can navigate autonomously using Global Positioning System (GPS) for long-distance navigation and find out the surrounding conditions to short distances cameras proximity sensors. The also has a system that search recognize static object image processing system. This research focuses on detection of objects in form traffic cones (Hue, Saturat...