Dirk Langer

TL;DR: In order to achieve autonomous operation of a vehicle in urban situations with unpredictable traffic, several realtime systems must interoperate, including environment perception, localization, planning, and control.

TL;DR: The architecture of Junior, a robotic vehicle capable of navigating urban environments autonomously, is presented, which successfully finished and won second place in the DARPA Urban Challenge, a robot competition organized by the U.S. Government.

TL;DR: The architecture of Junior, a robotic vehicle capable of navigating urban environments autonomously, successfully finished and won second place in the DARPA Urban Challenge, a robot competition organized by the U.S. Government.

TL;DR: This paper presents a novel approach to autonomous driving at the vehicle's handling limits that utilizes a highly accurate differential GPS and known friction values to drive a precomputed path at the friction limits of the vehicle.

TL;DR: ‘Junior 3’, a vehicle built at Volkswagen Group of America's Electronics Research Lab, is described, based on the knowledge gained from the DARPA Challenges and applied to ADAS functionalities, focussed on object detection and vehicle positioning capabilities.