jbn@GLACIER.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle) (04/28/88)
I hear that CMU has a new autonomous vehicle, a sidewalk rover like the Terregator, but improved. Who is doing the work, and are there any papers yet? John Nagle
gary%desi@UCSD.EDU (Gary Cottrell) (05/04/88)
In article <8804301216.AA23619@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> jbn@GLACIER.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle) writes: > > I hear that CMU has a new autonomous vehicle, a sidewalk rover >like the Terregator, but improved. Who is doing the work, and are there >any papers yet? > > John Nagle I don't know who is working on it, but I heard from a usually reliable source that Dean Pomerleau (grad student at CMU, inventor of meta-connection networks) has a 3-layer back-prop network driving the thing better than the CMU vision group's system. Anyone care to confirm or deny this information? gary cottrell Computer Science and Engineering C-014 UCSD, La Jolla, Ca. 92093 gary@sdcsvax.ucsd.edu (ARPA) {ucbvax,decvax,akgua,dcdwest}!sdcsvax!sdcsvax!gary (USENET) gwcottrell@ucsd.edu (BITNET)
Dean.Pomerleau@F.GP.CS.CMU.EDU (05/06/88)
In a recent post concerning autonomous land vehicle work at CMU, Gary Cottrell writes: >I don't know who is working on it, but I heard from a usually reliable >source that Dean Pomerleau (grad student at CMU, inventor of meta-connection >networks) has a 3-layer back-prop network driving the thing better than the >CMU vision group's system. Anyone care to confirm or deny this information? > >gary cottrell I am working on a project called ALVINN (for Autonomous Land Vehicle In a Neural Network). Currently ALVINN is quite proficient at driving on simulated road sequences and a limited number of real roads stored on disk. It hasn't been tested on the actual vehicle yet primarily because the van's hardware is currently being upgraded but we are cautiously optimistic about its ability to drive under field conditions. However it is too early to make a comparison between ALVINN and the current ALV implementation here at CMU. A paper discussing the project is being submitted to the November Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems in Denver. Dean Pomerleau Computer Science Dept. Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburg, PA 15213-3890 pomerlea@f.gp.cs.cmu.edu (ARPAnet)