This article provides a review of the production and uses of maps for autonomous driving
and a synthesis of the opportunities and challenges. For many years, maps have helped …

Interest in autonomous driving (AD) and intelligent vehicles (IVs) is growing at a rapid pace
due to the convenience, safety, and economic benefits. Although a number of surveys have …

Owing to the increase in civil applications using quadcopters, commercial flight control
systems such as Pixhawk are a popular solution to provide the sensing and control functions …

The knowledge about the placement and appearance of lane markings is a prerequisite for
the creation of maps with high precision, necessary for autonomous driving, infrastructure …

Global registration using 3D point clouds is a crucial technology for mobile platforms to
achieve localization or manage loop-closing situations. In recent years, numerous …

Achieving full autonomy in navigation is a complicated problem. The most widely used
solution takes up the modular framework for sensing and information processing such as …

Accurate vehicle self-localization is significant for autonomous driving. The localization
techniques based on Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) cannot achieve the …

Numerous researchers have conducted studies to achieve fast and robust ground-optimized
LiDAR odometry methods for terrestrial mobile platforms. In particular, ground-optimized …

This paper presents the development of a semiautomated driving line generation method
using point clouds acquired by a mobile laser scanning system. Horizontally curved driving …

Integration of aerial and ground images has been proved as an efficient approach to
enhance the surface reconstruction in urban environments. However, as the first step, the …