Autonomous Driving in Unstructured Environments: How Far Have We Come?

C Min, S Si, X Wang, H Xue, W Jiang, Y Liu… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Research on autonomous driving in unstructured outdoor environments is less advanced
than in structured urban settings due to challenges like environmental diversities and scene …

Efficient and robust lidar-based end-to-end navigation

Z Liu, A Amini, S Zhu, S Karaman… - … on Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep learning has been used to demonstrate end-to-end neural network learning for
autonomous vehicle control from raw sensory input. While LiDAR sensors provide reliably …

Autonomous navigation in inclement weather based on a localizing ground penetrating radar

T Ort, I Gilitschenski, D Rus - IEEE Robotics and Automation …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Most autonomous driving solutions require some method of localization within their
environment. Typically, onboard sensors are used to localize the vehicle precisely in a …

Alt-pilot: Autonomous navigation with language augmented topometric maps

M Omama, P Inani, P Paul, SC Yellapragada… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
We present an autonomous navigation system that operates without assuming HD LiDAR
maps of the environment. Our system, ALT-Pilot, relies only on publicly available road …

Vision‐Based Branch Road Detection for Intersection Navigation in Unstructured Environment Using Multi‐Task Network

J Ahn, Y Lee, M Kim, J Park - Journal of Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Autonomous vehicles need a driving method to be less dependent on localization data to
navigate intersections in unstructured environments because these data may not be …

Dark reciprocal-rank: Teacher-to-student knowledge transfer from self-localization model to graph-convolutional neural network

T Koji, T Kanji - … IEEE International Conference on Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In visual robot self-localization, graph-based scene representation and matching have
recently attracted research interest as robust and discriminative methods for self-localization …

Exploring navigation maps for learning-based motion prediction

J Schmidt, J Jordan, F Gritschneder… - … on Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The prediction of surrounding agents' motion is a key for safe autonomous driving. In this
paper, we explore navigation maps as an alternative to the predominant High Definition …

Road descriptors for fast global localization on rural roads using OpenStreetMap

S Ninan, S Rathinam - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
Accurate pose estimation is a fundamental ability that all mobile robots must posses in order
to navigate a given environment. Much like a human, this ability is dependent on the robot's …

[책][B] Traffic light detection and V2I communications of an autonomous vehicle with the traffic light for an effective intersection navigation using MAVS simulation

M Rahman - 2023 - search.proquest.com
Intersection Navigation plays a significant role in autonomous vehicle operation. This paper
focuses on enhancing autonomous vehicle intersection navigation through advanced …

Hierarchical road topology learning for urban mapless driving

L Zhang, F Tafazzoli, G Krehl, R Xu… - 2022 IEEE/RSJ …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The majority of current approaches in autonomous driving rely on High-Definition (HD) maps
which detail the road geometry and surrounding area. Yet, this reliance is one of the …