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Learning causal structures from observational data is a fundamental problem facing important computational challenges when the number of variables is large. In the context of linear structural equation models (SEMs), this paper focuses on…
In this work, we tackle the problem of modeling the vehicle environment as dynamic occupancy grid map in complex urban scenarios using recurrent neural networks. Dynamic occupancy grid maps represent the scene in a bird's eye view, where…
Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) is a task to estimate the robot location and to reconstruct the environment based on observation from sensors such as LIght Detection And Ranging (LiDAR) and camera. It is widely used in robotic…
In automotive systems, a radar is a key component of autonomous driving. Using transmit and reflected radar signal by a target, we can capture the target range and velocity. However, when interference signals exist, noise floor increases…
We present an approach for autonomous sensor control for information gathering under partially observable, dynamic and sparsely sampled environments that maximizes information about entities present in that space. We describe our approach…
For high resolution scene mapping and object recognition, optical technologies such as cameras and LiDAR are the sensors of choice. However, for robust future vehicle autonomy and driver assistance in adverse weather conditions,…
The comprehensive representation and understanding of the driving environment is crucial to improve the safety and reliability of autonomous vehicles. In this paper, we present a new approach to establish an environment model containing a…
Localisation with Frequency-Modulated Continuous-Wave (FMCW) radar has gained increasing interest due to its inherent resistance to challenging environments. However, complex artefacts of the radar measurement process require appropriate…
Precise, seamless, and efficient train localization as well as long-term railway environment monitoring is the essential property towards reliability, availability, maintainability, and safety (RAMS) engineering for railroad systems.…
Integrating multiple LiDAR sensors can significantly enhance a robot's perception of the environment, enabling it to capture adequate measurements for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). Indeed, solid-state LiDARs can bring in…
In this paper we propose a real-time, calibration-agnostic and effective localization system for self-driving cars. Our method learns to embed the online LiDAR sweeps and intensity map into a joint deep embedding space. Localization is then…
We present an end-to-end imitation learning system for agile, off-road autonomous driving using only low-cost sensors. By imitating a model predictive controller equipped with advanced sensors, we train a deep neural network control policy…
Cognitive sensing refers to a reconfigurable sensor that dynamically adapts its sensing mechanism by using stochastic control to optimize its sensing resources. For example, cognitive radars are sophisticated dynamical systems; they use…
Occupancy grids are the most common framework when it comes to creating a map of the environment using a robot. This paper studies occupancy grids from the motion planning perspective and proposes a mapping method that provides richer data…
Online Goal Babbling and Direction Sampling are recently proposed methods for direct learning of inverse kinematics mappings from scratch even in high-dimensional sensorimotor spaces following the paradigm of "learning while behaving". To…
Grid maps, especially occupancy grid maps, are ubiquitous in many mobile robot applications. To simplify the process of learning the map, grid maps subdivide the world into a grid of cells whose occupancies are independently estimated using…
We present a cost-effective new approach for generating denser depth maps for Autonomous Driving (AD) and Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) by integrating the images obtained from deep neural network (DNN) 4D radar detectors with conventional…
In Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar (ISAR), random missing entries of the received radar echo matrix deteriorate the imaging quality, compromising target distinction from the background. Compressive sensing techniques or matrix completion…
With the great achievement of artificial intelligence, vehicle technologies have advanced significantly from human centric driving towards fully automated driving. An intelligent vehicle should be able to understand the driver's perception…
Many tasks performed by autonomous vehicles such as road marking detection, object tracking, and path planning are simpler in bird's-eye view. Hence, Inverse Perspective Mapping (IPM) is often applied to remove the perspective effect from a…