Multiagent interactions in urban driving
Patrick Beeson, Jack O'Quin, Bartley Gillan, Tarun Nimmagadda, Mickey Ristroph, David Li, and Peter Stone. Multiagent interactions in urban driving. Journal of Physical Agents, 2(1):15–30, March 2008. Special issue on Multi-Robot Systems.
Abstract
In Fall 2007, the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) held the Urban Challenge, a street race between fully autonomous vehicles. Unlike previous challenges, the Urban Challenge vehicles had to follow the California laws for driving, including properly handling traffic. This article presents the modular algorithms developed largely by undergraduates at The University of Texas at Austin as part of the Austin Robot Technology team. We emphasize the aspects of the system that are relevant to multiagent interactions. Specifically, we discuss how our vehicle tracked and reacted to nearby traffic in order to allow our autonomous vehicle to safely follow and pass, merge into moving traffic, obey intersection precedence, and park.
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BibTeX
@Article{Beeson-jopha-08,
author = {Patrick Beeson and Jack O'Quin and Bartley Gillan
and Tarun Nimmagadda and Mickey Ristroph and David
Li and Peter Stone},
title = {Multiagent interactions in urban driving},
journal = {Journal of Physical Agents},
year = 2008,
volume = 2,
number = 1,
pages = {15--30},
month = {March},
note = {Special issue on Multi-Robot Systems.},
abstract = {In Fall 2007, the US Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency (DARPA) held the Urban Challenge, a
street race between fully autonomous
vehicles. Unlike previous challenges, the Urban
Challenge vehicles had to follow the California laws
for driving, including properly handling
traffic. This article presents the modular
algorithms developed largely by undergraduates at
The University of Texas at Austin as part of the
Austin Robot Technology team. We emphasize the
aspects of the system that are relevant to
multiagent interactions. Specifically, we discuss
how our vehicle tracked and reacted to nearby
traffic in order to allow our autonomous vehicle to
safely follow and pass, merge into moving traffic,
obey intersection precedence, and park.},
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