Quintic G2-Splines for the Iterative Steering of Vision-Based Autonomous Vehicles

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 27-36

  Piazzi, Aurelio ^a,b   Lo Bianco, Corrado Guarino ^a,b   Bertozzi, Massimo ^a   Fascioli, Alessandra ^a   Broggi, Alberto ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Automatic steering; Autonomous vehicles; Dynamic inversion; Iterative steering; Lateral control; Machine vision; Path generation; Quintic G2 splines

Indexed keywords

EID: 0142162969     PISSN: 15249050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/6979.994793     Document Type: Article

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