Patent Issued for Detection of Topological Structure from Sensor Data with Application to Autonomous Driving in Semi-Structured Environments

摘要

From the background information supplied by the inventors, news correspondents obtained the following quote: "Autonomous driving is a long-standing problem in robotics, as discussed in Springer, 'The 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge: The Great Robot Race,' 2005; 'Special issue on the 2007 DARPA urban challenge, part I,' Journal of Field Robotics, 25(8):423-566, August 2008; and 'Special issue on the 2007 DARPA urban challenge, part II,' Journal of Field Robotics, 25(8):423-566, August 2008. Existing work in autonomous driving focuses either on highly structured environments, such as highways or city streets, or on unstructured off-road driving.