Social behavior for autonomous vehicles

Behavior-Based Planning for Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles

* New address as of November 3, 1997: Dept. of Mechanical & Mechatronic Engineering University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia An architecture is presented in which distributed decision-making processes cooperatively determine a mobile robot’s path by sending votes to a centralized arbiter. One type of arbiter defined within this DAMN architecture performs command fusion to select that action wh...

Behavior Based Decision Control in Autonomous Vehicles:

The social dilemma of autonomous vehicles.

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) should reduce traffic accidents, but they will sometimes have to choose between two evils, such as running over pedestrians or sacrificing themselves and their passenger to save the pedestrians. Defining the algorithms that will help AVs make these moral decisions is a formidable challenge. We found that participants in six Amazon Mechanical Turk studies approved of ut...

Commentary: The Social Dilemma of Autonomous Vehicles

A Behavior-Based Mission Planner for Cooperative Autonomous Underwater Vehicles

Due to its applications in marine research, oceanographic, and undersea exploration, Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) and the related control algorithms has been recently under intense investigation. In this work, we address target detection and tracking issues, proposing a control strategy which is able to benefit from the cooperation among robots within the fleet. In particular, we intro...