Episode 0024: Safety Watchdog
In Episode 24 of the DRIVEN Podcast, Paul Perrone discusses how autonomous vehicle safety watchdog systems monitor for errors, ensure redundancy, and trigger fail-safe responses to maintain safe operations.
Episode 0023: Movement Planning
In this episode of DRIVEN, Paul Perrone discusses how autonomous vehicles trigger and implement maneuvers as a means for reacting to the environment of objects around it and for implementing new behaviors.
Episode 0022: Sensor Fusion
In this episode of DRIVEN, Paul Perrone explores the complexities of sensor fusion in autonomous vehicles, detailing how data from various sensors is integrated to accurately identify and track objects.
Episode 0020: LiDAR Perception
In Episode 20 of DRIVEN, host Paul Perrone delves into the intricacies of LiDAR Perception, exploring how laser sensors map the environment and enable autonomous vehicles to identify and navigate around obstacles with precision.
Episode 0019: Autonomous Navigation
In Episode 19 of DRIVEN, host Paul Perrone explores how autonomous vehicles use position, heading, and mapped route information, along with PID control and path tracking algorithms like pure pursuit, to expertly navigate and stay on course.
Episode 0018: AV Localization
In Episode 18 of DRIVEN, host Paul Perrone delves into the critical aspects of AV localization, exploring core concepts like GPS-based guidance, dead reckoning, RTK corrections, SLAM, and the balance between probabilistic and deterministic localization methods.
Episode 0010: How an AV Plans its Mission
Explore the sophisticated world of autonomous vehicle route planning in Episode 10 of Driven, where we delve into mission planning, optimizing paths using the A* algorithm, and the complexities of dynamic navigation.
Episode 0006: What’s in an AV Map?
Explore the digital atlas guiding autonomous vehicles as we unpack the intricate mapping of lanes, waypoints, and intersections that inform their every turn in Episode 6 of Driven, "What's in an AV Map?"
Episode 0004: How does an Autonomous Vehicle work?
In this fourth episode, an informational episode, we dive into the behavior of an autonomous vehicle. How does an autonomous vehicle work? How does it sense, plan, and act?
Episode 0003: What’s inside an Autonomous Vehicle?
In this third episode, an informational episode, we dive into the components of an autonomous vehicle. What are the piece parts that make an autonomous vehicle, autonomous?
Episode 0002: What Really is an Autonomous Vehicle
In this second episode, an informational episode, we discuss what constitutes an “autonomous vehicle”. Automation vs autonomous, and the promise versus current realities.