Joseph Auckley

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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
0since 2021 · last 2020
—ORCID · none

Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several

Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1Systems, architecture and hardware · 1

Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.

Artificial intelligence
1 paper
Autonomous driving · 50% Motion planning and robot control · 50%

Topics — the 2 heaviest of 2, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Robotics › Autonomous driving › autonomous ground vehicle
autonomous racing
0.412020
TUNERCAR: A Superoptimization Toolchain for Autonomous Racing · ICRA 2020
Robotics › Motion planning and robot control
trajectory optimization
0.412020
TUNERCAR: A Superoptimization Toolchain for Autonomous Racing · ICRA 2020

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

parallel simulation · 0.4CMA-ES · 0.4
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2020 TUNERCAR: A Superoptimization Toolchain for Autonomous Racing
abstract
TUNERCAR is a toolchain that jointly optimizes racing strategy, planning methods, control algorithms, and vehicle parameters for an autonomous racecar. In this paper, we detail the target hardware, software, simulators, and systems infrastructure for this toolchain. Our methodology employs a parallel implementation of CMA-ES which enables simulations to proceed 6 times faster than real-world rollouts. We show our approach can reduce the lap times in autonomous racing, given a fixed computational budget. For all tested tracks, our method provides the lowest lap time, and relative improvements in lap time between 7-21%. We demonstrate improvements over a naive random search method with equivalent computational budget of over 15 seconds/lap, and improvements over expert solutions of over 2 seconds/lap. We further compare the performance of our method against hand-tuned solutions submitted by over 30 international teams, comprised of graduate students working in the field of autonomous vehicles. Finally, we discuss the effectiveness of utilizing an online planning mechanism to reduce the reality gap between our simulation and actual tests.
Matthew O'Kelly, Hongrui Zheng, Achin Jain, Joseph Auckley, Kim Luong, Rahul Mangharam
ICRA4