Download or read book Vision Based Tactical Driving written by Todd Jochem and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: "Much progress has been made toward solving the autonomous lane keeping problem using vision based methods. Systems have been demonstrated which can drive robot vehicles at high speeds for long distances. The current challenge for vision based on-road navigation researchers is to create systems that maintain the performance of the existing lane keeping systems, while adding the ability to execute tactical level driving tasks like lane transition and intersection detection and navigation. There are many ways to add tactical functionality to a driving system. Solutions range from developing task specific software modules to grafting additional functionality onto a basic lane keeping system. Solutions like these are problematic because they either make reuse of acquired knowledge difficult or impossible, or preclude the use of alternative lane keeping systems. A more desirable solution is to develop a robust, lane keeper independent control scheme that provides the functionality to execute tactical actions. Based on this hypothesis, techniques that are used to execute tactical level driving tasks should: be based on a single framework that is applicable to a variety of tactical level actions, be extensible to other vision based lane keeping systems, and require little or no modification of the lane keeping system with which it is being used. This thesis examines a framework, called Virtual Active Vision, which provides this functionality through intelligent control of the visual information presented to the lane keeping system. Novel solutions based on this framework for two classes of tactical driving tasks, lane transition and intersection detection and transversal, are presented in detail. Specifically, algorithms which allow the ALVINN lane keeping system to robustly execute lane transition maneuvers like lane changing, entrance and exit ramp detection and transversal, and obstacle avoidance are presented. Additionally, with the aid of active camera control, the ALVINN system enhanced with Virtual Active Vision tools can successfully detect and navigate basic road intersections."
Download or read book Tactical Driving Using Visual Routines written by Garbis Salgian and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Intelligent Unmanned Ground Vehicles written by Martial H. Hebert and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intelligent Unmanned Ground Vehicles describes the technology developed and the results obtained by the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute in the course of the DARPA Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) project. The goal of this work was to equip off-road vehicles with computer-controlled, unmanned driving capabilities. The book describes contributions in the area of mobility for UGVs including: tools for assembling complex autonomous mobility systems; on-road and off-road navigation; sensing techniques; and route planning algorithms. In addition to basic mobility technology, the book covers a number of integrated systems demonstrated in the field in realistic scenarios. The approaches presented in this book can be applied to a wide range of mobile robotics applications, from automated passenger cars to planetary exploration, and construction and agricultural machines. Intelligent Unmanned Ground Vehicles shows the progress that was achieved during this program, from brittle specially-built robots operating under highly constrained conditions, to groups of modified commercial vehicles operating in tough environments. One measure of progress is how much of this technology is being used in other applications. For example, much of the work in road-following, architectures and obstacle detection has been the basis for the Automated Highway Systems (AHS) prototypes currently under development. AHS will lead to commercial prototypes within a few years. The cross-country technology is also being used in the development of planetary rovers with a projected launch date within a few years. The architectural tools built under this program have been used in numerous applications, from an automated harvester to an autonomous excavator. The results reported in this work provide tools for further research development leading to practical, reliable and economical mobile robots.
Download or read book Learning based Vision and Its Application to Autonomous Indoor Navigation written by Shaoyun Chen (Engineer) and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vision based Vehicle Guidance written by Ichiro Masaki and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a growing social interest in developing vision-based vehicle guidance systems for improving traffic safety and efficiency and the environment. Ex amples of vision-based vehicle guidance systems include collision warning systems, steering control systems for tracking painted lane marks, and speed control systems for preventing rear-end collisions. Like other guidance systems for aircraft and trains, these systems are ex pected to increase traffic safety significantly. For example, safety improve ments of aircraft landing processes after the introduction of automatic guidance systems have been reported to be 100 times better than prior to installment. Although the safety of human lives is beyond price, the cost for automatic guidance could be compensated by decreased insurance costs. It is becoming more important to increase traffic safety by decreasing the human driver's load in our society, especially with an increasing population of senior people who continue to drive. The second potential social benefit is the improvement of traffic efficiency by decreasing the spacing between vehicles without sacrificing safety. It is reported, for example, that four times the efficiency is expected if the spacing between cars is controlled automatically at 90 cm with a speed of 100 kmjh compared to today's typical manual driving. Although there are a lot of tech nical, psychological, and social issues to be solved before realizing the high density jhigh-speed traffic systems described here, highly efficient highways are becoming more important because of increasing traffic congestion.
Download or read book The Most Complete Book on Advanced Defensive Driving written by and published by Bill Kennedy Driving School. This book was released on with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Evolutionary Algorithms in Engineering Applications written by Dipankar Dasgupta and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evolutionary algorithms are general-purpose search procedures based on the mechanisms of natural selection and population genetics. They are appealing because they are simple, easy to interface, and easy to extend. This volume is concerned with applications of evolutionary algorithms and associated strategies in engineering. It will be useful for engineers, designers, developers, and researchers in any scientific discipline interested in the applications of evolutionary algorithms. The volume consists of five parts, each with four or five chapters. The topics are chosen to emphasize application areas in different fields of engineering. Each chapter can be used for self-study or as a reference by practitioners to help them apply evolutionary algorithms to problems in their engineering domains.
Download or read book Driving with Confidence written by Eli Peli and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2002 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a clear, no-nonsense discussion on the realities of low vision conditions together with a practical program designed to help low vision individuals maximize their chances for retaining and/or extending their driving privileges. Also provides a detailed description of driving vision regulations in every state in the US.
Download or read book Vision and Action written by Laurence R. Harris and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-10-13 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the two-way interplay between vision and action. Vision acts to guide and control actions. But vision also obtains a lot of information about the world by virtue of these actions --for example by moving round an object to obtain successive views. This becomes a reiterative process and it is this that is the focus of this volume. This book contains contributions from scientists who are leaders in each of the several facets of the subject. Examples of the types of action considered vary from moving the eyes and head and body, as in looking around or walking, to complex actions such as driving a car, or playing table tennis.
Download or read book From Automated to Autonomous Driving written by Fabian Kröger and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Advanced Driver Intention Inference written by Yang Xing and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2020-03-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advanced Driver Intention Inference: Theory and Design describes one of the most important function for future ADAS, namely, the driver intention inference. The book contains the state-of-art knowledge on the construction of driver intention inference system, providing a better understanding on how the human driver intention mechanism will contribute to a more naturalistic on-board decision system for automated vehicles. Features examples of using machine learning/deep learning to build industry products Depicts future trends for driver behavior detection and driver intention inference Discuss traffic context perception techniques that predict driver intentions such as Lidar and GPS
Download or read book AI Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Handbook of Teen and Novice Drivers written by Donald L Fisher and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-09-19 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite a growing body of research and targeted remediation, teenage and novice drivers continue to be six to nine times more likely to die in a crash than they are when they are just a few years older. The World Health Organization reports that road traffic injuries are the leading cause of death globally among 15 to 19 year olds. In light of these crash statistics, understanding the teen driver problem remains of paramount public health importance around the world. The Handbook of Teen and Novice Drivers: Research, Practice, Policy, and Directions provides critical knowledge for a broad range of potential readers, including students, teachers, researchers in academics, industry and the federal government, public policy makers at all levels, insurance companies and automobile manufacturers, driving instructors, and parents and their teens.
Download or read book Pedretti s Occupational Therapy E Book written by Heidi McHugh Pendleton and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2024-03-25 with total page 1442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gain the knowledge and skills you need to treat clients/patients with physical disabilities! Pedretti's Occupational Therapy: Practice Skills for Physical Dysfunction, 9th Edition uses a case-based approach threaded through each chapter to provide a solid foundation in evaluation, intervention, and clinical reasoning. The text continues to support the entry-level occupational therapist and the experienced occupational therapist focused on expanding skills and knowledge. With the OT practice framework as a guide, you will focus on the core concepts and central goals of client care. And by studying threaded case studies, you will learn to apply theory to clinical practice. Written by a team of expert OT educators and professionals led by Heidi McHugh Pendleton and Winifred Schultz-Krohn, this edition includes an eBook free with each new print purchase, featuring a fully searchable version of the entire text. - UNIQUE! Threaded case studies begin and are woven through each chapter, helping you develop clinical reasoning and decision-making skills and to apply concepts to real-life clinical practice. - UNIQUE! Ethical Considerations boxes examine the obligation to collaborate with clients on their care, using evidence to select treatment options. - UNIQUE! OT Practice Notes convey important tips and insights into professional practice. - Illustrated, evidence-based content provides a foundation for practice, especially relating to evaluation and intervention. - Information on prevention — rather than simply intervention or treatment — shows how OTs can take a proactive role in client care. - Focus on health promotion and wellness addresses the role of the occupational therapist in what the AOTA has identified as a key practice area. - Content on cultural and ethnic diversity is included in every chapter, reflecting occupational therapy's commitment to this important issue. - Key terms, chapter outlines, and chapter objectives highlight the information you can expect to learn from each chapter. - NEW! Updated content reflects the new Occupational Therapy Practice Framework (OTPF) and the new Accreditation Council for Occupational Therapy Education (ACOTE) curriculum standards along with the new AOTA Code of Ethics. - NEW! Implementation of Occupational Therapy Services, Therapeutic Use of Self, Telehealth, and Lifestyle Redesign chapters are added to this edition. - NEW! Content on the role of the occupational therapist with clients/patients who experience long COVID. - NEW! Inside look at the lived experience of disability covers the intersection of disability perspectives and occupational justice, along with the implications for Occupational Therapy. - NEW! Updated Mindfulness chapter is expanded to cover the wide use of mindfulness in occupational therapy for those with physical disabilities. - NEW! eBook version – included with print purchase – allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices, and offers the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have the content read aloud.
Download or read book Tenth International Conference on Applications and Techniques in Cyber Intelligence ICATCI 2022 written by Jemal H. Abawajy and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-03-29 with total page 775 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents innovative ideas, cutting-edge findings, and novel techniques, methods, and applications in a broad range of cybersecurity and cyberthreat intelligence areas. As our society becomes smarter, there is a corresponding need to secure our cyberfuture. The book describes approaches and findings that are of interest to business professionals and governments seeking to secure our data and underpin infrastructures, as well as to individual users.
Download or read book Human Factors of Visual and Cognitive Performance in Driving written by Candida Castro and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2008-11-21 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written clearly and concisely, using jargon-free language that is easily understood, this book compresses research from the past few decades into an accessible resource. It focuses on the concrete cognitive processes of driving, specifically, information acquisition and information processing. The authors delineate the theory, practice, and application of human factors knowledge and psychology to explain human errors that occur when acquiring information from the road environment. The book provides content on highway engineering, new technologies, vehicle, signage, VMS, and safety as well as information about the human factors on errors, situation awareness, workload, and fatigue.
Download or read book Federal Register written by and published by . This book was released on 1976-06 with total page 1292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
