Sensory Augmentation for Increased Awareness of Driving Environment

The goal of this project was to develop a lateral localization framework for autonomous driving in urban areas. Vehicle location is significant information for the controller, planner and behaviors systems. Lateral location is extremely important for safe and reliable self-driving, due to dense traffic, small lane width and varying road geometry. Though RTK global positioning system (GPS) has centimeter-level accuracy output in open areas, it can have half-meter lateral error in urban areas, which is extremely dangerous for urban driving. It is therefore desirable to precisely identify the lateral position by combining with other sensors.

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