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Terminated in academic year 2022/2023

Autonomous Driving

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction English
Code 460-4133/02
Abbreviation AJ
Course title Autonomous Driving
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Computer Science
Course coordinator Ing. Jan Gaura, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Lectures:

1. Car navigation using GPS, RDS-TMC.
2. Introduction to autonomous driving, definition of basic concepts.
3. Sensors for autonomous driving, cameras, LIDAR, ultrasound.
4. Sensor data fusion.
5. Machine learning tools in autonomous driving.
6. Detecting objects around the vehicle.
7. Space mapping around the vehicle.
8. Methods of localization in known environment - particle filter.
9. Methods of localization in unknown environment - SLAM.
10. Motion models of other objects around vehicles.
11. Route planning, shortest path algorithms.
12. Search for possible route paths.
13. Predicting the route of other objects.
14. Behavioral planning, trajectory generation.

Exercises:

1. Working with the GPS geolocation system and radio transmission of traffic information using RDS-TMC.
2. Working with cameras, setting parameters and storing data.
3. Work with LIDAR sensor and ultrasonic sensors.
4. Processing of sensor data and their fusion into subsequent analysis.
5. Introduction to the software framework of machine learning.
6. Detection of interest objects around a vehicle using machine learning.
7. Creating map data based on sensor data.
8. Use of particle filter to locate a vehicle in a known environment.
9. SLAM techniques to locate a vehicle in an unknown environment.
10. Motion models of other objects around a vehicle.
11. Implement algorithms for finding the shortest path.
12. Methods of searching space of possible routes and their visualization.
13. Methods of predicting the route of other objects and their visualization.
14. Behavioral planning, trajectory generation.

Project:

In the project, students will implement the selected problem of autonomous vehicle driving using available data.

Literature

LIU, Shaoshan, LI, Liyun, TANG, Jie, WU, Shuang, GAUDIOT, Jean-Luc. Creating Autonomous Vehicle Systems. Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2018. ISBN: 1681730073 
MCGRATH, Michael. Autonomous Vehicles: Opportunities, Strategies, and Disruptions. Independently published, 2018. ISBN-13: 978-1980313854 

Advised literature

HERRMANN, Andreas, Walter BRENNER a Rupert STADLER. Autonomous driving: how the driverless revolution will change the world. Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing, 2018. ISBN 978-1787148345 .
LIPSON, Hod a Melba KURMAN. Driverless: intelligent cars and the road ahead. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2016. ISBN 978-0262035224 .