PUBLICATIONS
Self-Supervised Sparse Sensor Fusion for Long Range Perception
Safe, long-distance highway travel at speeds exceeding 100 km/h demands perception distances of at least 250 m, which is about five times the 50–100m typically addressed in city driving, to allow sufficient planning and braking margins. Our approach efficiently fuses camera and lidar data, enables to extend perception distances to 250 meters and achieves an 26.6% improvement in mAP in object detection and a decrease of 30.5% in Chamfer Distance in LiDAR forecasting compared to existing methods, reaching distances up to 250 meters.
Introducing The ML FMEA
The integration of Machine Learning (ML) into safety-critical applications continues to raise challenges related to risk management and standardization. This paper presents a structured approach to safe ML development, readily applicable to sectors such as automotive, autonomous vehicles and systems, defense, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, logistics, and aerospace.
RAVE Checklist: Recommendations for Overcoming Challenges in Retrospective Safety Studies of Automated Driving Systems
Along with other recognized safety experts from the autonomous industry (Waymo, Cruise, Torc), academia (UMTRI, VTTI, University of Technology Dresden), and insurance (IIHS, if Insurance), Torc’s Shane McLaughlin was a co-author on an August 2024 paper. Click through to read the paper in full at the Arvix website.
Potential Workforce Impacts of Autonomous Trucks
As autonomous trucks become a reality on our roads, truck drivers are wondering about the potential impacts this technology could have on their jobs. In the future, automation will augment and improve, not replace, the trucking workforce.
CtRL-Sim: Reactive and Controllable Driving Agents with Offline Reinforcement Learning
A framework that leverages offline reinforcement learning for controllable closed-loop simulation.
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