Abstract
PurposeThe successful and commercial use of self-driving/driverless/unmanned/automated car will make human life easier. The paper aims to discuss this issue.Design/methodology/approachThis paper reviews the key technology of a self-driving car. In this paper, the four key technologies in self-driving car, namely, car navigation system, path planning, environment perception and car control, are addressed and surveyed. The main research institutions and groups in different countries are summarized. Finally, the debates of self-driving car are discussed and the development trend of self-driving car is predicted.FindingsThis paper analyzes the key technology of self-driving car and illuminates the state-of-art of the self-driving car.Originality/valueThe main research contents and key technology have been introduced. The research progress as well as the research institution has been summarized.
Highlights
Nowadays, even though vehicle driving assistive technology has been assembled in the premium cars on a large scale, the concept of the self-driving car has constantly appeared in various news and reports (Ross, 2014; Ackerman, 2016a; Harris, 2016; Hassler, 2017; Computerworld, 2012)
Due to few literatures (Van Arem, 2014; Ibanez-Guzman et al, 2012) reviewing the key technology of self-driving car, many problems are ambiguous, i.e., what is the progress of self-driving car? Is the large-scale commercial use of self-driving car helpful to the human society? To address the above problems, this paper investigates the key technology of self-driving car, discusses its implementation obstacles and summarizes the whole picture of the technology progress, which are expected to be helpful for the reader to understand the commercial use of the self-driving car
The self-driving car (Berger, 2014; Berger and Dukaczewski, 2014; Walker et al, 2001; Thrun, 2010; Baruch, 2016; Barker et al, 2013; Litman, 2015; Levinson et al, 2011), termed as the wheeled mobile robot, is a kind of intelligent car, which arrives at a destination based on the information obtained from automotive sensors, including the perception of the path environment, information of the route and car control
Summary
Even though vehicle driving assistive technology has been assembled in the premium cars on a large scale, the concept of the self-driving car has constantly appeared in various news and reports (Ross, 2014; Ackerman, 2016a; Harris, 2016; Hassler, 2017; Computerworld, 2012). Due to few literatures (Van Arem, 2014; Ibanez-Guzman et al, 2012) reviewing the key technology of self-driving car, many problems are ambiguous, i.e., what is the progress of self-driving car? Is the large-scale commercial use of self-driving car helpful to the human society? To address the above problems, this paper investigates the key technology of self-driving car, discusses its implementation obstacles and summarizes the whole picture of the technology progress, which are expected to be helpful for the reader to understand the commercial use of the self-driving car.
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