University of Michigan’s Work Toward Autonomous Cars

University of Michigan’s Work Toward Autonomous Cars Eustice, Ryan Self-driving test vehicles have become a reality on roadways, and there is an ever-present push toward making them a consumer product in the not-so-distant future. In this talk, I will give an overview of some of our previous work in collaboration with Ford Motor Company in full-scale automated driving. In particular, we’ll look at some of our successes in high-definition map building and precision localization, including our recent work in cross-modality localization using vision within a priori LIDAR maps as well as localization in snow using Gaussian mixture maps. We’ll also discuss our new unique Mcity test facility for connected and automated driving. Presented on April 20, 2016 at 12:00 p.m. in the Marcus Nanotechnology Building, room 1116.; Ryan M. Eustice is an associate professor in the Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering at the University of Michigan where he additionally holds joint appointments in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He is the director of the Perceptual Robotics Laboratory (PeRL), a mobile robotics laboratory focused on algorithm development in the areas of robotic perception, navigation, and mapping. His active research projects include applications for autonomous underwater ship hull inspection, multi-vehicle cooperative underwater navigation, benthic high-resolution mapping, and automotive active safety and self-driving capabilities.; Runtime: 65:39 minutes

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