Planning and decision-making for autonomous vehicles

W Schwarting, J Alonso-Mora… - Annual Review of Control …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
In this review, we provide an overview of emerging trends and challenges in the field of
intelligent and autonomous, or self-driving, vehicles. Recent advances in the field of …

Learning‐based nonlinear model predictive control to improve vision‐based mobile robot path tracking

CJ Ostafew, AP Schoellig, TD Barfoot… - Journal of Field …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents a Learning‐based Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (LB‐NMPC)
algorithm to achieve high‐performance path tracking in challenging off‐road terrain through …

Visual-inertial-wheel odometry with online calibration

W Lee, K Eckenhoff, Y Yang, P Geneva… - 2020 IEEE/RSJ …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we introduce a novel visual-inertial-wheel odometry (VIWO) system for ground
vehicles, which efficiently fuses multi-modal visual, inertial and 2D wheel odometry …

Vi-ikd: High-speed accurate off-road navigation using learned visual-inertial inverse kinodynamics

H Karnan, KS Sikand, P Atreya… - 2022 IEEE/RSJ …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
One of the key challenges in high-speed off-road navigation on ground vehicles is that the
kinodynamics of the vehicle-terrain interaction can differ dramatically depending on the …

Active disturbance rejection control for handling slip in tracked vehicle locomotion

B Sebastian, P Ben-Tzvi - Journal of …, 2019 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
This paper describes the use of an active disturbance rejection controller (ADRC) to
estimate and compensate for the effect of slip in an online manner to improve the path …

A multi-step dynamics modeling framework for autonomous driving in multiple environments

J Gibson, B Vlahov, D Fan, P Spieler… - … on Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Modeling dynamics is often the first step to making a vehicle autonomous. While on-road
autonomous vehicles have been extensively studied, off-road vehicles pose many …

High-fidelity yet fast dynamic models of wheeled mobile robots

N Seegmiller, A Kelly - IEEE Transactions on robotics, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Advances in hardware design have made wheeled mobile robots (WMRs) exceptionally
mobile. To fully exploit this mobility, we present a novel dynamic model formulation for use in …

Slip estimation for Mars rover Zhurong based on data drive

T Zhang, S Peng, Y Jia, H Tian, J Sun, C Yan - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
China's Mars rover Zhurong successfully landed on Mars on 15 May 2021, and it is currently
conducting an exploration mission on the Red Planet. This paper develops slip estimation …

Calibration and improvement of an odometry model with dynamic wheel and lateral dynamics integration

M Fazekas, P Gáspár, B Németh - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Localization is a key part of an autonomous system, such as a self-driving car. The main
sensor for the task is the GNSS, however its limitations can be eliminated only by integrating …

Dynamically feasible, energy efficient motion planning for skid-steered vehicles

N Gupta, C Ordonez, EG Collins - Autonomous Robots, 2017 - Springer
Recent research has developed experimentally verified dynamic models for skid-steered
wheeled vehicles and used these results to derive a power model for this important class of …