We consider automated vehicles operation in constrained environments, i.e. the automated parking (AP). The core of AP is formulated as a path planning problem, and Rapidly-exploring Randomized Tree (RRT) algorithm is adopted. To improve the baseline RRT, we propose several algorithmic tweaks, i.e. reversed RRT tree growth, direct tree branch connection using Reeds-Shepp curves, and RRT seeds biasing via regulated parking space/vehicle knowledge. We prove that under these tweaks the algorithm is complete and feasible. We then examine its performance (time, success rate, convergence to the optimal path) and scalability (to different parking spaces/vehicles) via batched simulations. We also test it using a real vehicle in a realistic parking environment. The proposed solution presents itself more applicable when compared with other baseline algorithms.
INDEX TERMSAutomated vehicles; Automated parking; Sampling-based path planning; Knowledgebased biasing.
A unified neural network structure is presented for joint 3D object detection and point cloud segmentation in this paper. We leverage rich supervision from both detection and segmentation labels rather than using just one of them. In addition, an extension based on single-stage object detectors is proposed based on the implicit function widely used in 3D scene and object understanding. The extension branch takes the final feature map from the object detection module as input, and produces an implicit function that generates semantic distribution for each point for its corresponding voxel center. We demonstrated the performance of our structure on nuScenes-lidarseg, a large-scale outdoor dataset. Our solution achieves competitive results against state-of-the-art methods in both 3D object detection and point cloud segmentation with little additional computation load compared with object detection solutions. The capability of efficient weakly supervision semantic segmentation of the proposed method is also validated by experiments.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.