Artificial Intelligence Solutions Within the Automotive Industry

Francisco Illanes, Iain LetourneauNathan Hupman& Max Jackman

Why AI for car safety is important.

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IntroductionThe subject of research is Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the automotive industry. Many advances have been made to make vehicles “smarter” and safer

- Advances in Collision Detection- Parking Assistance Technology

-AI-Assisted Controls-Conclusion

Definiton

• LIDAR (Light Detection And Ranging): A mixture of radar and laser technology, which measures scattered light to find range or other information on a distant target through the use of laser pulses. You will often see police officers using lidar equipment to track vehicle’s speed.

• GFLOP: A unit for measuring calculations per second, 1 GFLOP being equal to 1 billion calculations per second.

• GHz: Measurement of speed in cycles per second, in this case applied to measure the speed of a computer’s processor. 1 GHz is equal to 1 billion cycles per second.

Discussion of Advances in Collision Detection• Using Sensors

for Hazard Detection

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Discussion of Advances in Collision Detection• Using Advanced

Techniques toImprove Technology

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Examination of Parking Assistance Technology• Required Technology

• Parking-Assisted Process

Figure #: Siemens VDO’s Park Mate [#]

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Creation of Autonomous Vehicles

• The Next Step in Technology

• Vehicle Automation

Figure #: Road Map Database [#]

 [#] S. Thrun, “Towards Robotic Cars,” Communications of the ACM, vol. 53, no. 4, pp. 99-106. April 2010.

Figure #: Junior’s AI Flowchart [#]

• Combining Methods

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Evaluation of AI-Assisted Controls

Evaluation of AI-Assisted Controls• Tweaking Systems

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Conclusion

- Advances in Collision Detection

- Parking Assistance Technology

-AI-Assisted Controls

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