Jan Becker

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: In this article, an electronic processor of an autonomous vehicle is used to select a driver profile and adjust a plurality of vehicle control system settings based on the profile selection, including the driving style of the driver.

TL;DR: In this article, a forward-looking camera is used to capture an image of a parking area including at least one unoccupied parking space and a plurality of parking spaces occupied by other vehicles.