Autonomous Vehicle Safety: An Interdisciplinary Challenge

IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 90-96

  Koopman, Philip ^a   Wagner, Michael ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Edge Case Research LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULT TOLERANCE; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES; DEPLOYMENT PROCESS; FULLY-AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES; FUNCTIONAL HIERARCHY; HARDWARE FAULT TOLERANCE; MULTI-DISCIPLINARY APPROACH; TECHNICAL CHALLENGES; UNSTRUCTURED ENVIRONMENTS;

VEHICLES;

EID: 85010402897     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19391390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MITS.2016.2583491     Document Type: Article

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