Road Rage

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Road Rage
Jacob Quist Shigenori Mikuriya Ken Dean
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Overview
Road Rage
Jacob Quist Shigenori Mikuriya Ken Dean

• Darpa Urban Challenge (DUC) in December 2007
• Autonomous Vehicle in Urban Environments
• We are building the Cognition System
• We input signals from Perception, then output
  controls to the vehicle

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The Market
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Jacob Quist Shigenori Mikuriya Ken Dean

• Not really a big market yet, but maybe soon.
• Competition 2005 Grand Challenge Participants
• Our Difference We handle urban environments.

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The Market
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Jacob Quist Shigenori Mikuriya Ken Dean

• Why is our system needed?
• Battlefield Convoys ? Save Lives
• Civic Services ? Ease Burdon of Humans (e.g.
  Doing work nobody wants to do)
• Emergency Services

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Customers
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Jacob Quist Shigenori Mikuriya Ken Dean

• Our customers are not your typical customers
• Governments
• Large organizations

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Customer Government
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Jacob Quist Shigenori Mikuriya Ken Dean

• Military Requires 30 of Vehicles be Autonomous
  by 2015
• Save Lives on Battlefield
• Save Money
• (example Contract Truck Drivers in Iraq Cost
  400/day)

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Customer Government
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Jacob Quist Shigenori Mikuriya Ken Dean

• Additionally, Technology can be applied to other
  aspects
• NASA Vehicles
• Underground Vehicles
• Submarines
• (etc)

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Customer Large organizations
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Jacob Quist Shigenori Mikuriya Ken Dean

• Car Manufacturers
• Create Vehicles that Help Drive
• Emergencies
• (Women giving birth, etc)
• Collision Avoidance
• (Somebody has heart attack while driving)

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System Architecture
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Mission Map

World State
Scheduler
Perception
Executive
Vehicle State
Real Time Controller
Vehicle Control Interface
Vehicle