Mohammad Hejase, Junbo Jing, John M. Maroli, Yasser Bin Salamah, L. Fiorentini, Ü. Özgüner
{"title":"Constrained Backward Path Tracking Control using a Plug-in Jackknife Prevention System for Autonomous Tractor-Trailers","authors":"Mohammad Hejase, Junbo Jing, John M. Maroli, Yasser Bin Salamah, L. Fiorentini, Ü. Özgüner","doi":"10.1109/ITSC.2018.8569262","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC.2018.8569262","url":null,"abstract":"Jackknifing during tractor-trailer reverse driving presents a major challenge in control system design. In this paper, maneuverability conditions were explicitly derived for tractor-trailer systems that are hitched off-axle. A control safety governor was designed and constructed to guarantee that the system stays within the derived maneuverability conditions under steering rate constraints using any controller. The control safety governor is decoupled from the controller so that it can be used in a plug-in fashion with minimal interference. The performance of the designed system was tested for a neural network controller on an increasingly rigorous path with introduced discontinuities. Results show that the system was able to successfully track the path without jackknifing. The novelty of this work lies in providing a solution that is capable of guaranteeing jackknife prevention for any reverse path tracking controller for tractor-trailer systems.","PeriodicalId":395239,"journal":{"name":"2018 21st International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124105379","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Vatavu, Nils Rexin, Simon Appel, Tobias Berling, Suresh Govindachar, Gunther Krehl, Janis Peukert, Manuel Schier, O. Schwindt, Jakob Siegel, Ch. Zalidis, Timo Rehfeld, Dominik Nuss, M. Maile, Sven Zimmermann, K. Dietmayer, A. Gern
{"title":"Environment Estimation with Dynamic Grid Maps and Self-Localizing Tracklets","authors":"A. Vatavu, Nils Rexin, Simon Appel, Tobias Berling, Suresh Govindachar, Gunther Krehl, Janis Peukert, Manuel Schier, O. Schwindt, Jakob Siegel, Ch. Zalidis, Timo Rehfeld, Dominik Nuss, M. Maile, Sven Zimmermann, K. Dietmayer, A. Gern","doi":"10.1109/ITSC.2018.8569993","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC.2018.8569993","url":null,"abstract":"Dynamic environment representation is an important and demanding topic in the field of autonomous driving. One of the generic ways to estimate the surrounding world of an intelligent vehicle is to use dynamic grid maps. However, there are still several unsolved challenges in the grid-based tracking solutions like the ability to converge faster and providing a more efficient way to fuse multi-sensorial information. In this work, we address both of these challenges as a single probabilistic estimator. First, we treat the grid map estimation process as a multi-channel tracking mechanism. In particular, we use a particle filter based solution to integrate both the occupancy and semantic grids. Second, we adapt the idea of simultaneous grid cell tracking and object shape estimation into the grid map domain and propose “self-localizing tracklets”, which are individual particle filter based estimators that are used for two main tasks: stabilizing the position estimation accuracy of dynamic cells with respect to the object boundary, and estimating a better object shape. The presented concepts offer an improved representation flexibility and a faster algorithm convergence.","PeriodicalId":395239,"journal":{"name":"2018 21st International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)","volume":"340 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124160030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Learning Traffic Light Colors","authors":"A. Fregin, K. Dietmayer","doi":"10.1109/ITSC.2018.8569746","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC.2018.8569746","url":null,"abstract":"Traffic light recognition is of great interest for advanced driver assistance systems and autonomous driving but still an unsolved problem. While a traffic light has few visual features for detection from camera images we believe the characteristic light represents a potentially very strong and stable feature. The traffic light is actively emitting light which is rarely influenced by weather or lighting condition. When using a color lookup table for an image segmentation-based object detector, the process of creating the lookup table is the crucial point. In this paper, we propose a method for generating a lookup table using real world data of a large dataset. The training data is sampled from labeled objects and stored as multisets. We contribute a frequency-based filtering method to clean the samples before using a k-nearest neighbor classifier to generalize. The result is stored as a three dimensional lookup table. The main contribution is a neighborhood-biasing technique that allows setting different operating points online without retraining. A challenging real world dataset containing several thousands of active lights is used to evaluate the process.","PeriodicalId":395239,"journal":{"name":"2018 21st International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)","volume":"111 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124351116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Learning to Attend to Salient Targets in Driving Videos Using Fully Convolutional RNN","authors":"Ashish Tawari, P. Mallela, Sujitha Martin","doi":"10.1109/ITSC.2018.8569438","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC.2018.8569438","url":null,"abstract":"Driving involves the processing of rich audio, visual and haptic signals to make safe and calculated decisions on the road. Human vision plays a crucial role in this task and analysis of the gaze behavior could provide some insights into the action the driver takes upon seeing an object/region. A typical representation of the gaze behavior is a saliency map. The work in this paper aims to predict this saliency map given a sequence of image frames. Strategies are developed to address important topics for video saliency including active gaze (i.e. gaze that is useful for driving), pixel- and object-level information, and suppression of non-negative pixels in the saliency maps. These strategies enabled the development of a novel pixel- and object-level saliency ground truth dataset using real-world driving data around traffic intersections. We further proposed a fully convolutional RNN architecture capable of handling time sequence image data to estimate saliency map. Our methodology shows promising results.","PeriodicalId":395239,"journal":{"name":"2018 21st International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)","volume":"368-370 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114790210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Frohn, Petyo Ilov, S. Kriebel, Evgeny Kusmenko, Bernhard Rumpe, Alexander Ryndin
{"title":"Distributed Simulation of Cooperatively Interacting Vehicles","authors":"C. Frohn, Petyo Ilov, S. Kriebel, Evgeny Kusmenko, Bernhard Rumpe, Alexander Ryndin","doi":"10.1109/ITSC.2018.8570010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC.2018.8570010","url":null,"abstract":"The field of cooperatively interacting vehicles requires complex simulation infrastructures dealing with various aspects such as vehicle, traffic, and communication models. In this work we present a modular and extensible simulator architecture, design patterns, and best practices for this domain. We show how extension points for co-simulators can be employed allowing the engineer to tailor a simulation environment to his needs. Moreover, we introduce the sectoring approach distributing the computational burden of a simulation over a series of workers thereby allowing us to cope with a large number of participants residing in large urban areas.","PeriodicalId":395239,"journal":{"name":"2018 21st International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114723202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multi-Object Tracking with Interacting Vehicles and Road Map Information","authors":"A. Danzer, Fabian Gies, K. Dietmayer","doi":"10.1109/ITSC.2018.8569701","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC.2018.8569701","url":null,"abstract":"In many applications, tracking of multiple objects is crucial for a perception of the current environment. Most of the present multi-object tracking algorithms assume that objects move independently regarding other dynamic objects as well as the static environment. Since in many traffic situations objects interact with each other and in addition there are restrictions due to drivable areas, the assumption of an independent object motion is not fulfilled. This paper proposes an approach adapting a multi-object tracking system to model interaction between vehicles, and the current road geometry. Therefore, the prediction step of a Labeled Multi-Bernoulli filter is extended to facilitate modeling interaction between objects using the Intelligent Driver Model. Furthermore, to consider road map information, an approximation of a highly precise road map is used. The results show that in scenarios where the assumption of a standard motion model is violated, the tracking system adapted with the proposed method achieves higher accuracy and robustness in its track estimations.","PeriodicalId":395239,"journal":{"name":"2018 21st International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117072688","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring the Use of Driver Attributes to Characterize Heterogeneity in Naturalistic Driving Behavior","authors":"Rachel James, Britton Hammit, Mohamed M. Ahmed","doi":"10.1109/ITSC.2018.8569497","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC.2018.8569497","url":null,"abstract":"Microsimulation models are powerful tools for exploring the impact of human driving behavior on the transportation system. One of the most heavily researched components of microsimulation models are car-following models, where human behavior is approximated using driver specific calibration coefficients. Inter-driver heterogeneity in calibration parameters has been observed in naturalistic data, but few studies have explored methods to characterize this heterogeneity. This research utilizes an 85-driver sample from the second Strategic Highway Research Program Naturalistic Driving Study dataset to calibrate over 100-hours of car-following data to three different car-following models: Gipps, Wiedemann 99, and Intelligent Driver Model. This enables a detailed exploration of the degree to which driver attributes—such as age, gender, and income—can be leveraged to account for inter-driver heterogeneity in car-following. The sample is segmented into smaller subsamples of data as a function of driver attributes. Statistically significant differences in parameter values are observed between the subsamples of data when age, miles driven last year, and income are used as characterizing traits. Moreover, it is shown that no single model outperforms the other models for all categories of data.","PeriodicalId":395239,"journal":{"name":"2018 21st International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116438273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Kutila, P. Pyykönen, H. Holzhuter, M. Colomb, Pierre Duthon
{"title":"Automotive LiDAR performance verification in fog and rain","authors":"M. Kutila, P. Pyykönen, H. Holzhuter, M. Colomb, Pierre Duthon","doi":"10.1109/ITSC.2018.8569624","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC.2018.8569624","url":null,"abstract":"This article focuses on testing and investigating further development needs for LiDARs in self-driving cars in adverse weather. The article compares two different LiDARs (Ibeo Lux and Velodyne PUCK), which both use the 905 nm wavelengths, which are used in more than 95% of currently available LiDARs. The performance was tested and estimated in stabilized fog conditions at Cerema fog chamber facilities. This provides a good basis for repeating the same validation procedure multiple times and ensuring the right development decisions. However, performance of the LiDARs suffers when the weather conditions become adverse and visibility range decreases. A 50% reduction in target detection performance was observed over the exhaustive tests. Therefore, changing to higher wavelengths (1550 nm) was considered using redesigned “pre-prototype LiDAR”. The preliminary results indicate that there is no reason to not use 1550 nm wavelength, which due to eye safety regulations gives an opportunity to use 20 times more power compared to the traditional 905 nm. In order to clarify the expected benefits, additional feasibility studies are still needed.","PeriodicalId":395239,"journal":{"name":"2018 21st International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123457975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Construction of the Driving Cycle of Vehicles Queuing at Toll Station","authors":"Yuntao Chang, B. Su","doi":"10.1109/ITSC.2018.8569284","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC.2018.8569284","url":null,"abstract":"Through analysis on the data concerning the driving cycle of vehicles queuing at the expressway toll station, in combination with the proposed clustering analysis and Markov process, a space-based driving cycle model is built in relation to vehicles queuing. Through comparison with the actual driving cycle in speed-acceleration joint distribution, the model is proved to be capable of well-fitting the driving cycle of vehicles queuing. This model can provide a good analysis basis for the emission and energy consumption of vehicles queued in front of the toll station.","PeriodicalId":395239,"journal":{"name":"2018 21st International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)","volume":"212 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123548399","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fei Xie, Zhenhong Lin, Yan Zhou, Clément Rames, E. Wood, Eleftheria Kontou
{"title":"Will Advanced Public Charging Infrastructure Speed Up Electrification of Future Transportation?","authors":"Fei Xie, Zhenhong Lin, Yan Zhou, Clément Rames, E. Wood, Eleftheria Kontou","doi":"10.1109/ITSC.2018.8569388","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC.2018.8569388","url":null,"abstract":"This study focuses on evaluating impacts of advanced, urban public charging infrastructure on the battery electric vehicle (BEV) adoption in the U.S market. Under various infrastructure scenarios (e.g., current and developed conditions), we investigate the infrastructure impacts on the near-term BEV adoption using a consumer-choice based market simulation approach. Our results suggest that current public charging infrastructure has continuous and significant impacts on the near-term BEV adoption. Additional infrastructure investment could further stimulate the public acceptance of BEVs. We also find that the actual infrastructure impact may vary depending on the assumption of how charging deployment could affect consumers' access of chargers and consumers' daily available charging time. However, this impact variability could be reduced when infrastructure is getting mature.","PeriodicalId":395239,"journal":{"name":"2018 21st International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117109928","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}