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Mark VanMiddlesworth, Kurt Dresner, and Peter Stone. Replacing the Stop Sign: Unmanaged Intersection Control for Autonomous Vehicles (Short Paper). In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, pp. 1413–1416, Estoril, Portugal, May 2008.
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As computers replace humans as the drivers of automobiles, our current traffic management mechanisms will give way to hyper-efficient protocols designed to exploit the capabilities of fully autonomous vehicles. We have introduced such a system for coordinating large numbers of autonomous vehicles at intersections. Our experiments suggest that this system could alleviate many of the dangers and delays associated with intersections by allowing vehicles to ``call ahead'' to an agent stationed at the intersection and reserve time and space for their traversal. Unfortunately, such a system is not cost-effective at small intersections. In this paper, we propose an intersection control mechanism for autonomous vehicles designed specifically for low-traffic intersections where the previous system would not be practical. Our mechanism is based on purely peer-to-peer communication and thus requires no infrastructure at the intersection. We present experimental results demonstrating that our system, while not suited to large, busy intersections, can significantly outperform traditional stop signs at small intersections.
@InProceedings{2008aamas-vanmiddlesworth,
author="Mark VanMiddlesworth and Kurt Dresner and Peter Stone",
title="Replacing the Stop Sign: Unmanaged Intersection Control for Autonomous Vehicles (Short Paper)",
booktitle= AAMAS08,
address="Estoril, Portugal",
month="May", year="2008",
pages="1413--1416",
abstract={
As computers replace humans as the drivers of automobiles, our
current traffic management mechanisms will give way to
hyper-efficient protocols designed to exploit the capabilities of
fully autonomous vehicles. We have introduced such a system for
coordinating large numbers of autonomous vehicles at intersections.
Our experiments suggest that this system could alleviate many of the
dangers and delays associated with intersections by allowing
vehicles to ``call ahead'' to an agent stationed at the intersection
and reserve time and space for their traversal. Unfortunately, such
a system is not cost-effective at small intersections. In this
paper, we propose an intersection control mechanism for autonomous
vehicles designed specifically for low-traffic intersections where
the previous system would not be practical. Our mechanism is based
on purely peer-to-peer communication and thus requires no
infrastructure at the intersection. We present experimental results
demonstrating that our system, while not suited to large, busy
intersections, can significantly outperform traditional stop signs
at small intersections.
},
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bib2html_pubtype = {Refereed Conference},
bib2html_funding = {NSF},
}
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