Browsing Theses by Subject "autonomous vehicles"
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Dynamic-Occlusion-Aware Risk Identification for Autonomous Vehicles Using Hypergames
(University of Waterloo, 2021-12-17)A particular challenge for both autonomous vehicles (AV) and human drivers is dealing with risk associated with dynamic occlusion, i.e., occlusion caused by other vehicles in traffic. In order to overcome this challenge, ... -
Empirical Game Theoretic Models for Autonomous Driving: Methods and Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-16)In recent years, there has been enormous public interest in autonomous vehicles (AV), with more than 80 billion dollars invested in self-driving car technology. However, for the foreseeable future, self-driving cars will ... -
Examining the effects of autonomous vehicle ride sharing services on fixed-route public transit
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-14)With the increased development of new transportation technologies such as autonomous vehicles and ridesharing fleet services comes the possibility of a new mode of transportation: autonomous vehicle ridesharing services ... -
A Hierarchical Pedestrian Behaviour Model to Reproduce Realistic Human Behaviour in a Traffic Environment
(University of Waterloo, 2022-03-07)Understanding pedestrian behaviour in traffic environments is a crucial step in the development and testing of autonomous vehicles. As the environment's most vulnerable road users, pedestrians introduce an element of ... -
Infrastructure Design for Electric and Autonomous Vehicles
(University of Waterloo, 2022-04-29)This thesis focuses on infrastructure design for the disruptive transportation technologies of electric vehicles (EVs) and autonomous vehicles (AVs) to enable their adoption at large scale. Particularly, two EV-related ... -
Local and Cooperative Autonomous Vehicle Perception from Synthetic Datasets
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-23)The purpose of this work is to increase the performance of autonomous vehicle 3D object detection using synthetic data. This work introduces the Precise Synthetic Image and LiDAR (PreSIL) dataset for autonomous vehicle ... -
Multi-Actuated Vehicle Control and Path Planning/Tracking at Handling Limits
(University of Waterloo, 2021-03-10)The increasing requirements for vehicle safety along with the impressive progress in vehicle actuation technologies have motivated manufacturers to equip vehicles with multiple control actuations that enhance handling and ... -
Passenger Response to Driving Style in an Autonomous Vehicle
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-23)Despite rapid advancements in automated driving systems (ADS), current human-computer interaction research tends to focus more on the safety driver in lower level vehicles. The future of automated driving lies in higher ... -
Secure Harmonized Speed Under Byzantine Faults for Autonomous Vehicle Platoons Using Blockchain Technology
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-31)Autonomous Vehicle (AV) platooning holds the promise of safer and more efficient road transportation. By coordinating the movements of a group of vehicles, platooning offers benefits such as reduced energy consumption, ... -
Self-Localization for Autonomous Driving Using Vector Maps and Multi-Modal Odometry
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-05)One of the fundamental requirements in automated driving is having accurate vehicle localization. It is because different modules such as motion planning and control require accurate location and heading of the ego-vehicle ...