Artificial Intelligence

College of Computing Professor Ashok Goel teaches Knowledge Based Artificial Intelligence (KBAI) every semester. It’s a core requirement of Georgia Tech’s online master’s of science in computer science programme. And every time he offers it, Goel estimates, his 300 or so students post roughly 10,000 messages in the online forums - far too many enquiries for him and his eight Teaching Assistants (TAs) to handle.

For tram drivers, every second on the job requires complete concentration. Heavy traffic conditions might lead to collisions with other trams, cars or trucks at any time. Soon, the first trams featuring the new Bosch technology that can actively prevent such accidents will enter into service in Frankfurt. The innovative driver assistance system warns tram drivers of any impending collision: if the driver brakes too late, or not at all, the system...

The growing area of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) for the automotive industry is benefiting from software tools and services for real time system design and development from Symtavision, a Luxoft subsidiary.

A self-driving truck under development by Scania and KTH researchers has tested successfully at speeds of up to 90 km/h. According to the research lead at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, the successful tests are aimed at implementing self-driving Scania trucks in mining operations within a year or two. "We have come a long way with the work and have already proven with a real truck that the task is possible," says Bo Wahlberg, profes...

Members of the public are being sought to take part in a new study by the University of Southampton to understand people’s perceptions of automated vehicles. Participants will be required to view a series of four to five second videos of a car (a white Tesla Model S) making lane changes, while driving down the motorway, and to decide whether it is being driven by a human driver or a computer. 

EnSilica has launched a Kalman Filter acceleration IP core for use in situational awareness radar sensors for ADAS, such as electronic stability control systems, pre-crash impact mitigation, blind spot detection, lane departure detection and self-parking.

NXP Semiconductors and the European truck manufacturer DAF will demonstrate platooning, a future traffic management technology, on public roads in Belgium and the Netherlands. The demonstration is part of the European Union International Truck Platooning Challenge, an event organised by the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment.

An exciting "driverless race" is underway among tech giants the United States: In recent months, Google, Uber, and Tesla have made headlines for developing self-driving taxis for big cities. But a comparatively small MIT spinout, nuTonomy, has entered the race somewhat under the radar. The startup is developing a fleet of driverless taxis to serve as a more convenient form of public transit while helping reduce greenhouse gas emissions in th...

  The Vauxhall Corsa can be optioned with Advanced Park Assist, and Vauxhall are promoting it by letting Gerty the Boxer demonstrate it. The advances in systems that make driving easier are coming thick and fast at the moment, and filtering down from ‘Premium’ models to more run of the mill cars.

A UK initiative designed to study data critical to the efficient operation of driverless cars has secured funding from Innovate UK that will put the country at the forefront of connected and autonomous vehicles. The Atlas initiative, a consortium of UK businesses, will use the funding to research and develop communication between vehicles and roadside infrastructure.