The 20th edition of the “Robotics: Science and Systems” (RSS) conference was held at the Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands in July 15-19, 2024.
The Robotics: Science and Systems has a long history of bringing together researchers in all areas of robotics from around the world for an engaging and focused week of single-track presentations, workshops, poster sessions, and tutorials.
EVENTS colleagues from TUD, showcased the work-in-progress of how a self-driving vehicle can safely and efficiently navigate amongst cyclists and pedestrians in a dense traffic environment (e.g. Delft city center) and what should be done if the vehicle gets stuck, during a live demo at the RSS 2024 conference.
The video demo is available here.
A highlight of their self-driving stack is the Topology-Driven Model Predictive Control (T-MPC) motion planner by Oscar de Groot, Laura Ferranti, Dariu Gavrila and Javier Alonso-Mora.
T-MPC optimizes multiple trajectories with different passing behaviors simultaneously, allowing the vehicle to quickly adapt to changes in its environment.
You may read the corresponding paper entitled “Topology-Driven Parallel Trajectory Optimization in Dynamic Environments“, here.
