Self-exploration of Non-holonomic Automated System Under Dynamic Environment Isuzu Technical Center of America Incorporated

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Zhang, Weiyang, author.

Contributor:

Cai, Pengcheng

He, Haokun

Sun, Yong

Yu, Wenbo

Conference Name:

WCX SAE World Congress Experience (2020-04-21 : Detroit, Michigan, United States)

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource cm

Place of Publication:

Warrendale, PA SAE International 2020

Summary:

Exploring an unknown place autonomously is a challenge for robots, especially when the environment is changing. Moreover, in real world application, efficient path planning is crucial for the autonomous vehicles to have timely response to execute a collision-free motion. In this paper we focus on environment exploration which enables an automated system to establish a map of an unknown environment with dynamic objects moving within it. We introduce an exploration package that enables robot's self-exploration with an online collision avoidance planner. The package consists of exploration module, global planner module and local planner module. We modularize the package so that developers can easily make modifications or even substitutions to some modules for their specific application. In order to validate the algorithm, we designed and built a robot car as a low cost validation platform to test the autonomous vehicle algorithms in the real world. The car has a 22.36 x 11.65 x 7.6 inches, 4X4 brushless short course truck chassis, which has a dynamic model similar to a passenger car, but in a scaled pattern. An NVIDIA Xavier GPU (Ubuntu 18.04) and VESC board are mounted on the chassis which provide computation power and speed control capability. A PID speed controller and an open loop steering controller is used for the low level control module

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Publisher Number:

2020-01-0126

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