The Michigan Tech autonomous winter driving data set: year two

摘要

We present results of the second season of test data from an autonomous driving surrogate sensor pod mounted to the roof rails of a light duty truck. Coupled to a custom built data acquisition system our team drives a series of predetermined routes during inclement winter weather events. Our focus is on high rate snowfall events and events blowing snow with low visibility. Since our year one effort we have augmented our sensor pod with longer range and higher resolution LiDARs. Our guest LiDAR for this year added data from a longer wavelengths. We will also discuss data processing and lessons learned from the first year of the experiment.