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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"autonomous cars"”.
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Reimagining Streets through the Autonomous Car
The widespread adoption of autonomous cars has the potential to revolutionize urban transportation, but what impact will it have on urban form? This thesis examines the hypothesis that adopting autonomous cars can transform street space into a more human-centric purpose, leading to more livable and …
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Planning under uncertainty in resource-constrained systems
As autonomous systems become integrated into the real world, planning under uncertainty is a critical task. The real world is incredibly complex and systems must reason about factors such as uncertainty in their movements, environments, and human behavior. In the face of this uncertainty, agents …
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Algorithms for safe robot navigation
As drones and autonomous cars become more widespread it is becoming increasingly important that robots can operate safely under realistic conditions. The noisy information fed into real systems means that robots must use estimates of the environment to plan navigation. Efficiently guaranteeing that …
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Cooperative Prediction and Planning Under Uncertainty for Autonomous Robots
Autonomous robots are set to become ubiquitous in the future, with applications ranging from autonomous cars to assistive household robots. These systems must operate in close proximity of dynamic and static objects, including humans and other non-autonomous systems, adding complexity to their …
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Exploring image recognition: applying convoluted neural networks and learning to recognize safe cyclists
… that has the potential to be tapped. Moreover, autonomous cars will be here soon, to add to the mix. With statistics showing an increase in bicyclist related crashes over the last decade and an increase in bicycle-borne road users, there is a necessity for cities and autonomous vehicles to build …
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PROACTIVE DETECTION OF ALCOHOL IMPAIRMENT: LEVERAGING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR ENHANCED TRAFFIC SAFETY
… or sober using image data from outside the cars. The study uses a custom dataset that preprocesses and integrates images from the IMDB-Wiki and Drunk/Sober datasets, incorporating images with varying disruption and noise levels (ranging from 10% to 30%) to simulate different camera qualities …
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Model Reference Adaptive Backstepping Control of an Autonomous Ground Vehicle
With an increased push for commercial autonomous cars, the demand of high speed systems capable of performing in unstructured driving environments is growing. In this thesis, the behavior of a bio-inspired predator prey model is considered to stimulate a more organic response to obstacles and a …
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Nonparametric directional perception
Artificial perception systems, like autonomous cars and augmented reality headsets, rely on dense 3D sensing technology such as RGB-D cameras and LiDAR. scanners. Due to the structural simplicity of man-made environments, understanding and leveraging not only the 3D data but also the local …
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Representing Unstructured Environments for Robotic Manipulation: Toward Generalization, Dexterity and Robustness
… many other cyber-physical systems, such as autonomous cars.
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Congestion-aware traffic routing for large-scale mobile agent systems
… are sure to be influenced by the coming of autonomous cars. This thesis presents route planning algorithms and a system for either autonomous or human-driven cars in road networks dealing with travel time uncertainty and congestion. First, a stochastic route planning algorithm is presented …
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Machine Learning for Analog/Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuit Design Automation
… applications ranging from smart devices and autonomous cars to crucial infrastructures. Despite such critical importance, conventional design strategies of AMS circuits still follow an expensive and time-consuming manual process and are unable to meet the exponentially-growing productivity …
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Towards real-time light field processing for quantitative imaging and perception
… other areas as well. Mobile robots, especially autonomous cars, currently utilize multiple sensors such as cameras, LIDAR and RADAR for the purpose of localization and perception. However, visual sensing and autonomy in the face of edge cases and unexpected changes in scenes such as poor …