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- From: kck+@cs.cmu.edu (Karl Kluge)
- Subject: Intelligent Vehicles
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.023128.270932@cs.cmu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 02:31:28 GMT
- Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
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- This discussion seems to have gotten embedded in sci.physics, although I
- suspect there must be a more appropriate venue elsewhere on the net. The
- proceedings of Intelligent Vehicles '92 (sponsored by IEEE Industrial
- Electronics Society, co-sponsored by SAE and some other folks) contains a
- representative sampling of what is going on. The book VISION-BASED VEHICLE
- GUIDANCE (edited by Ichiro Masaki) also contains a good selection of papers.
-
- The reliability requirements for autonomous road following are daunting --
- the mean time between fatal accidents is approx. 1 million vehicle-hours.
- For a vision based system running at 10 Hz, that translates into an average
- of 36,000,000,000 images processed without making a sufficiently serious
- error to cause a fatality. The California PATH people have been looking at
- plopping ceramic permanent magnets into the pavement to mark the lane center
- and tracking those.
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- Which of the competing approaches "wins" from the point of view of
- non-technical considerations is unclear. The Feb '91 IEEE Transactions on
- Vehicular Technology contains a number of good papers discussing policy
- issues, and pointing off to references evaluating palletization vs.
- entrainment vs. platooning vs. uniform spacing at moderate headways.
-