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Academic Lectures
AMS Colloquium:Dr.Christian Parkinson on 2/7 at 3pm in CH143
Department / Organization: AMS
The Hamilton-Jacobi Formulation of Optimal Path Planning for Autonomous Vehicles
Abstract: We present a partial-differential-equation-based optimal path planning framework for simple self-driving cars. This formulation relies on optimal control theory, dynamic programming, and a Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation, and thus provides an interpretable alternative to black-box machine learning algorithms. We design grid-based numerical methods used to resolve the solution to the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation and generate optimal trajectories. We then describe how efficient and scalable algorithms for solutions of high dimensional Hamilton-Jacobi equations can be developed to solve similar problems in higher dimensions and in nearly real-time. We demonstrate our methods with several examples.
Please join us in person in CH143 or through zoom: https://mines.zoom.us/j/99293132717
