Organizers
Steve Dellenback, Vice President R&D, Southwest Research Institute
Matthew Doude, Associate Director, Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems
Session Description
Current automation efforts are focused on a structured environment that is paved and is preferably well marked. There is a segment of the national road infrastructure that gets little focus: unpaved roadways that exist in many rural areas as well as off-road applications. To achieve deep penetration of AVs outside the urban areas they will need to be able to handle unpaved roads. Many of the currently utilized sensors and mapping techniques will struggle in these environments as the driving area changes significantly with the seasons and the visual cues radically vary. Research results/topics to successfully deploy off road AVs will be discussed.
Goals/Objectives/Outputs
- State-of-the-art of non-paved road automated driving
- Limitations of current techniques
- What is needed to successfully implement automation on non-paved roads
Modeator: Steve Dellenback, Vice President R&D, Southwest Research Institute
Current speaker list:
- Mr. Chris Mentzer, Assistant Director R&D, Southwest Research Institute
- Dr. Matthew Doude, Associate Director, Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems
- Mr. Jeff Durst, Branch Chief - Mobility Systems Branch, ERDC-GSL
- Dr. Alex Thomasson, Texas A&M University
- Dr. Fernando Figueroa, NASA Stennis Space Center
- U.S. Army CCDC (formally TARDEC)