VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Joseph Auckley
dblp:274/9267
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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
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Robotics › Autonomous driving › autonomous ground vehicle
autonomous racing |
0.4 | 1 | 2020 | TUNERCAR: A Superoptimization Toolchain for Autonomous Racing · ICRA 2020 |
Robotics › Motion planning and robot control
trajectory optimization |
0.4 | 1 | 2020 | 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
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | TUNERCAR: A Superoptimization Toolchain for Autonomous RacingabstractTUNERCAR 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 |
ICRA | 4 |