Download or read book Creating Autonomous Vehicle Systems written by Shaoshan Liu and published by Morgan & Claypool Publishers. This book was released on 2017-10-25 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first technical overview of autonomous vehicles written for a general computing and engineering audience. The authors share their practical experiences of creating autonomous vehicle systems. These systems are complex, consisting of three major subsystems: (1) algorithms for localization, perception, and planning and control; (2) client systems, such as the robotics operating system and hardware platform; and (3) the cloud platform, which includes data storage, simulation, high-definition (HD) mapping, and deep learning model training. The algorithm subsystem extracts meaningful information from sensor raw data to understand its environment and make decisions about its actions. The client subsystem integrates these algorithms to meet real-time and reliability requirements. The cloud platform provides offline computing and storage capabilities for autonomous vehicles. Using the cloud platform, we are able to test new algorithms and update the HD map—plus, train better recognition, tracking, and decision models. This book consists of nine chapters. Chapter 1 provides an overview of autonomous vehicle systems; Chapter 2 focuses on localization technologies; Chapter 3 discusses traditional techniques used for perception; Chapter 4 discusses deep learning based techniques for perception; Chapter 5 introduces the planning and control sub-system, especially prediction and routing technologies; Chapter 6 focuses on motion planning and feedback control of the planning and control subsystem; Chapter 7 introduces reinforcement learning-based planning and control; Chapter 8 delves into the details of client systems design; and Chapter 9 provides the details of cloud platforms for autonomous driving. This book should be useful to students, researchers, and practitioners alike. Whether you are an undergraduate or a graduate student interested in autonomous driving, you will find herein a comprehensive overview of the whole autonomous vehicle technology stack. If you are an autonomous driving practitioner, the many practical techniques introduced in this book will be of interest to you. Researchers will also find plenty of references for an effective, deeper exploration of the various technologies.

Download or read book Robotics Control and Computer Vision written by Hariharan Muthusamy and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-06-26 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents select peer-reviewed papers from the International Conference on Robotics, Control, and Computer Vision (ICRCCV 2022). The contents focus on the latest research in the field of Robotics, their control, and computer vision in the context of robotics. The contributed papers have been arranged to give a flow to the reader. This book will be useful for students, researchers, and professionals from multidisciplinary fields such as mechanical engineering, electronics engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, and mathematics.

Download or read book Robot Navigation from Nature written by Michael John Milford and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-02-11 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering book describes the development of a robot mapping and navigation system inspired by models of the neural mechanisms underlying spatial navigation in the rodent hippocampus. Computational models of animal navigation systems have traditionally had limited performance when implemented on robots. This is the first research to test existing models of rodent spatial mapping and navigation on robots in large, challenging, real world environments.

Download or read book Drones as Cyber Physical Systems written by Jung-Sup Um and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-31 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces the concept of using drones as a teaching tool to explore the fundamental principles, technology and applications of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). A short introduction sets CPS in the context of the 4th industrial revolution, and describes various CPS technologies including self-driving cars, commercial intelligent drones and mobile robots, in which artificial intelligence routinely supports smarter decision-making. The core of the book then focuses on commercially available drones, the only available system offering the advantage of cyber-physical bridging through 3D autonomous dynamic flying in classroom conditions. Chapters describe drone technology, including location sensors and imaging systems. CPS theory is explained through typical drone flying procedures and do-it-yourself (DIY) aerial photography in which communication between sensors, actuators and controllers occurs through cyber-physical bi-directional bridging. This book opens new possibilities in fostering 4th industrial revolution literacy, introducing relevant examples from readily available equipment, making core elements of cyber-physical bridging accessible. It is aimed primarily at those students who have an interest in CPS, drones and those from disciplines that are concerned with spatial information.

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Download or read book Urban Informatics written by Wenzhong Shi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 941 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book is the first to systematically introduce the principles of urban informatics and its application to every aspect of the city that involves its functioning, control, management, and future planning. It introduces new models and tools being developed to understand and implement these technologies that enable cities to function more efficiently – to become ‘smart’ and ‘sustainable’. The smart city has quickly emerged as computers have become ever smaller to the point where they can be embedded into the very fabric of the city, as well as being central to new ways in which the population can communicate and act. When cities are wired in this way, they have the potential to become sentient and responsive, generating massive streams of ‘big’ data in real time as well as providing immense opportunities for extracting new forms of urban data through crowdsourcing. This book offers a comprehensive review of the methods that form the core of urban informatics from various kinds of urban remote sensing to new approaches to machine learning and statistical modelling. It provides a detailed technical introduction to the wide array of tools information scientists need to develop the key urban analytics that are fundamental to learning about the smart city, and it outlines ways in which these tools can be used to inform design and policy so that cities can become more efficient with a greater concern for environment and equity.

Download or read book Unsettled Topics in Obstacle Detection for Autonomous Agricultural Vehicles written by Stewart Moorehead and published by SAE International. This book was released on 2021-12-15 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agricultural vehicles often drive along the same terrain day after day or year after year. Yet, they still must detect if a moveable object, such as another vehicle or an animal, happens to be on their path or if environmental conditions have caused muddy spots or washouts. Obstacle detection is one of the major missing pieces that can remove humans from highly automated agricultural machines today and enable the autonomous vehicles of the future. Unsettled Topics in Obstacle Detection for Autonomous Agricultural Vehicles examines the challenges of environmental object detection and collision prevention, including air obscurants, holes and soft spots, prior maps, vehicle geometry, standards, and close contact with large objects. Click here to access the full SAE EDGETM Research Report portfolio. https://doi.org/10.4271/EPR2021029

Download or read book ROBOT 2017 Third Iberian Robotics Conference written by Anibal Ollero and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-10 with total page 913 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These volumes of "Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing" highlight papers presented at the "Third Iberian Robotics Conference (ROBOT 2017)". Held from 22 to 24 November 2017 in Seville, Spain, the conference is a part of a series of conferences co-organized by SEIDROB (Spanish Society for Research and Development in Robotics) and SPR (Portuguese Society for Robotics). The conference is focused on Robotics scientific and technological activities in the Iberian Peninsula, although open to research and delegates from other countries. Thus, it has more than 500 authors from 21 countries. The volumes present scientific advances but also robotic industrial applications, looking to promote new collaborations between industry and academia.

Download or read book Proceedings of 2021 Chinese Intelligent Systems Conference written by Yingmin Jia and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-10-07 with total page 895 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the proceedings of the 17th Chinese Intelligent Systems Conference, held in Fuzhou, China, on Oct 16-17, 2021. It focuses on new theoretical results and techniques in the field of intelligent systems and control. This is achieved by providing in-depth study on a number of major topics such as Multi-Agent Systems, Complex Networks, Intelligent Robots, Complex System Theory and Swarm Behavior, Event-Triggered Control and Data-Driven Control, Robust and Adaptive Control, Big Data and Brain Science, Process Control, Intelligent Sensor and Detection Technology, Deep learning and Learning Control Guidance, Navigation and Control of Flight Vehicles and so on. The book is particularly suited for readers who are interested in learning intelligent system and control and artificial intelligence. The book can benefit researchers, engineers, and graduate students.

Download or read book Fuzzy Logic Techniques for Autonomous Vehicle Navigation written by Dimiter Driankov and published by Physica. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past decade a critical mass of work that uses fuzzy logic for autonomous vehicle navigation has been reported. Unfortunately, reports of this work are scattered among conference, workshop, and journal publications that belong to different research communities (fuzzy logic, robotics, artificial intelligence, intelligent control) and it is therefore not easily accessible either to the new comer or to the specialist. As a result, researchers in this area may end up reinventing things while being unaware of important existing work. We believe that research and applications based on fuzzy logic in the field of autonomous vehicle navigation have now reached a sufficient level of maturity, and that it should be suitably reported to the largest possible group of interested practitioners, researches, and students. On these grounds, we have endeavored to collect some of the most representative pieces of work in one volume to be used as a reference. Our aim was to provide a volume which is more than "yet another random collection of papers," and gives the reader some added value with respect to the individual papers. In order to achieve this goal we have aimed at: • Selecting contributions which are representative of a wide range of prob lems and solutions and which have been validated on real robots; and • Setting the individual contributions in a clear framework, that identifies the main problems of autonomous robotics for which solutions based on fuzzy logic have been proposed.

Download or read book Modelling and Simulation for Autonomous Systems written by Jan Mazal and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Modelling and Simulation for Autonomous Systems, MESAS 2018, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in October 2018. The 46 revised full papers included in the volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 66 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: Future Challenges of Advanced M&S Technology; Swarming - R&D and Application; M&S of Intelligent Systems - AI, R&D and Application; AxS in Context of Future Warfare and Security Environment (Concepts, Applications, Training, Interoperability, etc.).

Download or read book Emerging Military Technologies written by Wilson W.S. Wong and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-01-07 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines emerging defense technologies such as directed energy weapons, nanotech devices, and bioscience applications that have the potential to dominate international relations in the future, just as nuclear weapons and space infrastructure-assisted conventional weapons do now. Emerging Military Technologies: A Guide to the Issues examines the potential of the United States to bring new technologies to deployment in the service of America's security and defense. The work also discusses how other international actors may regard the United States' investment in these high-tech capabilities, identifying possible resultant counter actions, and presents several divergent viewpoints on what the future may bring. The book thoroughly explores three general categories of emerging technologies: autonomous computers, nanotechnology and biotechnology, and the interrelated topics of directed energy weapons and ubiquitous space access. Security studies expert Wilson W.S. Wong balances coverage of today's cutting-edge science and engineering with treatment of real-world concerns of effectiveness, military ethics, and international relations in the 21st century. An invaluable resource for members of the military and intelligence communities, this book also provides general readers with an accessible introduction to these highly technical topics.

Download or read book Vision and Navigation written by Charles E. Thorpe and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mobile robots are playing an increasingly important role in our world. Remotely operated vehicles are in everyday use for hazardous tasks such as charting and cleaning up hazardous waste spills, construction work of tunnels and high rise buildings, and underwater inspection of oil drilling platforms in the ocean. A whole host of further applications, however, beckons robots capable of autonomous operation without or with very little intervention of human operators. Such robots of the future will explore distant planets, map the ocean floor, study the flow of pollutants and carbon dioxide through our atmosphere and oceans, work in underground mines, and perform other jobs we cannot even imagine; perhaps even drive our cars and walk our dogs. The biggest technical obstacles to building mobile robots are vision and navigation-enabling a robot to see the world around it, to plan and follow a safe path through its environment, and to execute its tasks. At the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute, we are studying those problems both in isolation and by building complete systems. Since 1980, we have developed a series of small indoor mobile robots, some experimental, and others for practical applicationr Our outdoor autonomous mobile robot research started in 1984, navigating through the campus sidewalk network using a small outdoor vehicle called the Terregator. In 1985, with the advent of DARPA's Autonomous Land Vehicle Project, we constructed a computer controlled van with onboard sensors and researchers. In the fall of 1987, we began the development of a six-legged Planetary Rover.

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Download or read book ECPPM 2022 eWork and eBusiness in Architecture Engineering and Construction 2022 written by Eilif Hjelseth and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2023-03-29 with total page 1412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ECPPM 2022 - eWork and eBusiness in Architecture, Engineering and Construction contains the papers presented at the 14th European Conference on Product & Process Modelling (ECPPM 2022, Trondheim, Norway, 14-16 September 2022), and builds on a long-standing history of excellence in product and process modelling in the construction industry, which is currently known as Building Information Modelling (BIM). The following topics and applications are given special attention: Sustainable and Circular Driven Digitalisation: Data Driven Design and/or Decision Support Assessment and Documentation of Sustainability Information lifecycle Data Management: Collection, Processing and Presentation of Environmental Product Documentation (EPD) and Product Data Templates (PDT) Digital Enabled Collaboration: Integrated and Multi-Disciplinary Processes Virtual Design and Construction (VDC): Production Metrics, Integrated Concurrent Engineering, Lean Construction and Information Integration Automation of Processes: Automation of Design and Engineering Processes, Parametric Modelling and Robotic Process Automation Expert Systems: BIM based model and compliance checking Enabling Technologies: Machine Learning, Big Data, Artificial and Augmented Intelligence, Digital Twins, Semantic Technology Sensors and IoT Production with Autonomous Machinery, Robotics and Combinations of Existing and New Technical Solutions Frameworks for Implementation: International Information Management Series (ISO 19650), and Other International Standards (ISO), European (CEN) and National Standards, Digital Platforms and Ecosystems Human Factors in Digital Application: Digital Innovation, Economy of Digitalisation, Client, Organisational, Team and/or Individual Perspectives Over the past 25 years, the biennial ECPPM conference proceedings series has provided researchers and practitioners with a unique platform to present and discuss the latest developments regarding emerging BIM technologies and complementary issues for their adoption in the AEC/FM industry.