Development of Machine Intelligence for Fully Autonomous Ground Vehicles Via Video Analysis

Lowe, Jordon and Kuru, Kaya orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-4279-4166 (2024) Development of Machine Intelligence for Fully Autonomous Ground Vehicles Via Video Analysis. In: IEEE/ASME MESA 2024 – 20th Int. Conference on Mechatronic, Embedded Systems and Applications (MESA-11: Clean and Smart Vehicles and Transportation System), 2-4 September 2024, Genova, Italy.

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Abstract

The automation of vehicles is progressing from one automation level to the next, with the goal of reaching level 5, which involves no steering wheel, pedals, brakes, or windshield. This is achieved by the vehicle taking on an increasing number of autonomous decision-making tasks under the guidance of intelligent control systems that are equipped with enhancing sensor technologies and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Major vehicle companies are competing to build the most experienced (AI-) driver on the roads. In this report, how the intelligence of Self-Driving Vehicles (SDVs) is being built by the automotive industry for the efficient deployment of handover wheels is analysed and applications of machine intelligence for SDVs are implemented through video capturing using Deep Learning (DL). The results show that i) the use of DL techniques as well as reinforcement learning (RL) - Deep RL approaches - can contribute to the intelligence of SDVs significantly and ii) SDVs, equipped with advanced mechatronics systems, can be fully autonomous with the level-5 automation as they are trained appropriately with proper datasets.


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