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Human-Usable and Emergency Vehicle-Aware Control Policies for Autonomous Intersection Management.
Kurt
Dresner and Peter Stone.
In AAMAS 2006 Workshop on Agents in Traffic
and Transportation, May 2006.
ATT 2006.
The project page with videos from the paper.
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Traffic congestion and automobile accidents are two of the leading causes of decreased standard of living and lost productivity in urban settings. Recent advances in artificial intelligence and, specifically, intelligent vehicle technology suggest that vehicles driven entirely by autonomous agents will be possible in the near future. In previous work, we presented a novel reservation-based approach for governing interactions of multiple autonomous vehicles, specifically at intersections. This approach alleviated many traditional problems associated with intersections, in terms of both safety and efficiency. However, such a system relies on all vehicles being equipped with the requisite technology --- a restriction that would make implementing such a system in the real world extremely difficult. In this paper, we augment the system such that it is able to accomodate traditional human-operated vehicles using existing infrastructure. Furthermore, we show that as the number of autonomous vehicles on the road increases, traffic delays decrease monotonically toward the levels exhibited in the system involving only autonomous vehicles. Additionally, we demonstrate how the system can be extended to allow high-priority vehicles such as ambulances, police cars, or fire trucks through more quickly without placing undue burden on other vehicles. Both augmentations are fully implemented and tested in our custom simulator, and we present detailed experimental results attesting to their effectiveness.
@InProceedings(ATT06,
author="Kurt Dresner and Peter Stone",
title="Human-Usable and Emergency Vehicle-Aware Control Policies for Autonomous Intersection Management",
booktitle="{AAMAS} 2006 Workshop on Agents in Traffic and Transportation",
month="May",year="2006",
abstract={
Traffic congestion and automobile accidents are two
of the leading causes of decreased standard of
living and lost productivity in urban
settings. Recent advances in artificial intelligence
and, specifically, intelligent vehicle technology
suggest that vehicles driven entirely by autonomous
agents will be possible in the near future. In
previous work, we presented a novel
reservation-based approach for governing
interactions of multiple autonomous vehicles,
specifically at intersections. This approach
alleviated many traditional problems associated with
intersections, in terms of both safety and
efficiency. However, such a system relies on all
vehicles being equipped with the requisite
technology --- a restriction that would make
implementing such a system in the real world
extremely difficult. In this paper, we augment the
system such that it is able to accomodate
traditional human-operated vehicles using existing
infrastructure. Furthermore, we show that as the
number of autonomous vehicles on the road increases,
traffic delays decrease monotonically toward the
levels exhibited in the system involving only
autonomous vehicles. Additionally, we demonstrate
how the system can be extended to allow
high-priority vehicles such as ambulances, police
cars, or fire trucks through more quickly without
placing undue burden on other vehicles. Both
augmentations are fully implemented and tested in
our custom simulator, and we present detailed
experimental results attesting to their
effectiveness.
},
wwwnote={<a href="http://ki.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~kluegl/att2006/">ATT 2006</a>.<br> The <a href="http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~kdresner/aim/">project page</a> with videos from the paper.},
)
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