Active Sensing for High-Speed Offroad Driving

In this paper we propose an active control strategy for scanning laser sensors on autonomous vehicles traveling offroad at high speeds. As speed increases the amount of sensor information about the terrain decreases. We address the problem of sensor control in the context of this speed-coverage trade off. The algorithm and testing methodologies are described with results comparing our active sensing method to a passive sensing method.

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