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AUTOMATIC VEHICLE GUIDANCE
The Experience of the ARGO Autonomous Vehicle

by Alberto Broggi, Massimo Bertozzi, Alessandra Fascioli & Gianni Conte (University of Parma, Italy)

This book surveys the history of automatic vehicle guidance based on the processing of visual information, starting from the very first projects worldwide up to the latest developments. It also presents the ARGO prototype vehicle, developed at the University of Parma (Italy), and describes its equipment, setup, and performance. ARGO has been equipped with cameras and processing systems to drive autonomously in real traffic conditions. The complete system has been tested on public roads, during a tour in which ARGO drove itself along the Italian highway network for more than 2000 km. A detailed analysis of this trip is also included.


Contents:

  • Intelligent Vehicles:
  • Intelligent Vehicles and Machine Vision
  • State of the Art
  • The ARGO Project:
  • Algorithms for Image Processing
  • Hardware Support for Real-Time Image Processing
  • The ARGO Vehicle
  • The Project's Results:
  • The MilleMiglia in Automatico Tour
  • Performance Analysis
  • Appendices:
  • Morphological Implementation of the DBS Filter
  • PAPRICA-3 Programming Environment
  • Global Communications on PAPRICA-3


Readership: Researchers, designers and students in robotics, automotive systems and intelligent transportation.

256pp Pub. date: Apr 1999
ISBN 978-981-02-3720-2
981-02-3720-0
US$67 / £42
US$27 / £17

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