UW Moose and WISE Sim were used to create a self-driving platoon for experiments from the paper "Enhancing Safety in Mixed Traffic: Learning-Based Modeling and Efficient Control of Autonomous and Human-Driven Vehicles".
We published a few seminars on our YouTube channel:
More are to come.
On March 8, 2021, prof. Krzysztof Czarnecki gave an invited lecture titled "Designing & Testing Autonomous Vehicles: What Engineers are Doing" as part of the lecture series at the Electrical & Computer Engineering department at the University of Waterloo. The video is available on YouTube.
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Prof. Krzysztof Czarnecki participated in an expert panel on connected and autonomous vehicles and shared mobility organized by the Council of Canadian Academies and sponsored by Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED).
The executive summary and the complete report from the panel as well as a press release are available on the CAC's website.
Our SAE World Congress Experience conference article "Modes of Automated Driving System Scenario Testing: Experience Report and Recommendations" has been selected as one of the best papers at the conference and it has been published in SAE International Journal Advances & Current Practices in Mobility under the same title.
The grand opening of the new Autonomous Vehicle Research & Intelligence Laboratory (AVRIL) took place on Tue, Feb 14, 2020, with over 60 guests, including the federal and provincial ministers, MPPs, and the president of the University of Waterloo. AVRIL is now the new home of the UW Moose as well as many other projects.
WISE Lab led by prof. Czarnecki and TRAIL Lab led by prof. Waslander have released the Canadian Adverse Driving Conditions Dataset. The dataset is accompanied by a paper with the same title by Matthew Pitropov, Danson Garcia, Jason Rebello, Michael Smart, Carlos Wang, Krzysztof Czarnecki, Steven Waslander.
The article touches upon our research on autonomous vehicle safety testing project with AAA Northern California, Nevada & Utah, measuring anxiety of autonomous vehicle passengers, and ensuring safety on AI onboard autonomous vehicles.
On October 31, the Autonomoose team hosted a public demo day. During the day, we gave autonomous rides to over 100 participants. For more information about the event, visit Public Autonomoose Demo Day Eventbrite page.
During the demonstration, we showcased static obstacle avoidance, dynamic object detection, localization on the map, and decision making, and left-turn at an all-way-stop intersection with oncoming traffic (the moose had to stop and yield to the oncoming car).
On Feb. 8, prof. Czarnecki participated in a panel discussion on the viability of automated driving in severe weather conditions. For the highlights of the discussion, see Globe and Mail article.