7 accepted papers
In urban pedestrian zones where autonomous vehicles (AVs) increasingly operate alongside humans, clear communication between AVs and pedestrians is essential for safety and trust. This study conducted an exploratory research on pedestrian reactions to an autonomous shuttle bus (AutoBus) operating on…
Robust off-road perception for autonomous navigation is hard to achieve. Versatile environments, different hardware, and numerous disturbances limit the perceptional portability in changing applications and cross-platform. This contribution proposes sensor-fusion considering the data quality of unce…
Autonomous driving in a pedestrian zone is a challenging task. Technische Universitaet Kaiserslautern (TUK) is currently researching autonomous driving on the university campus for elderly or disabled people. This paper presents a novel campus dataset from the TUK campus, recorded over the span of o…
This paper describes a novel behavior-based local navigation approach for rough off-road scenarios. Trajectory candidates are generated based on vehicle kinematics and dynamics as well as the desired global trajectory. In contrast to on-road local navigation approaches, the work at hand proposes the…
Traversability analysis is an important aspect of autonomous navigation in robotics. In this paper, we relate the idea of traversability to safety and ease of road usage by defining a novel sensor-data driven metric called Road Traversability Index (RTI). The RTI translate the geometric interaction…
Silt accumulation and sedimentation in canal beds leads to deterioration of watercourses over time. Every year a forced closure of the canals in the Indus basin is inevitable for canal cleaning, entailing a very large scale and costly operation. Silt removal precision is prone to inefficiencies due…
The Bio-inspired Behavior-Based Bipedal Locomotion Control (B4LC) system consists of control units encapsulating feed-forward and feedback mechanisms, namely motor patterns and reflexes. To optimize the performance of motor patterns and reflexes in terms of stable locomotion on both even and uneven…