Autonomous driving through extremely-tight-dynamic environments with complex, stochastic, and adversarial traffic-dynamics, or simply through an absolute chaos, on sub-urban unstructured roads in India.
This kind of traffic and environment has never been attempted in the history of #autonomousdriving.
There were no traffic-rules to abide by on this road, other than to perform a left-sided avoidance, if the other obstacles follow the same, else the vehicle will have to change its plan in a stochastic manner, in several of the adversarial multi-agent negotiation settings encountered throughout the autonomous navigation.
This demos tested our motion planning and decision making framework to its limits, showcasing its robustness in negotiating such traffic-dynamics with ease.
This demo was done on mostly a very narrow road, suited mostly for one-way navigation, but as is customary in India, bidirectional traffic is active on such narrow roads.
It can be seen throughout navigation that the incoming vehicles didn't allow any gaps for our #AutonomousVehicles, forcing it to negotiate passively-aggressively its own path through the chaos. Furthermore, obstacles overtaking us didn't follow any rules either, and zig-zagged and moved in crisscross fashion, challenging our motion and behaviour planning software, which negotiated all such scenarios with ease.
There were only two points where our vehicle came to halt, when two girls on a two-wheeler didn't stop and just kept on navigating, despite our vehicle being closer to the narrow passage and it having the right of way, and despite a bike being parked over there by someone, making it a very challenging scenario both for the humans and for the decision making autonomous agent(s).
This demo was done in the Awadhpuri area, on the Durga Mata road. This framework was last shown in relatively much sparser traffic in our Kankali Kali Mata demo last month. It is being scaled further with deep unsupervised and #reinforcementlearning , and in the coming weeks, it will play a critical role in our endeavour to solving the Level-4 autonomy problem by the end of the year.
This kind of traffic negotiation has never been attempted by any autonomous driving company ever. While a 90-degree turn is usually discussed as a corner case in the West, our autonomous vehicle negotiated a blind 90-degree corner, with traffic, with ease.
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.@imVkohli will continue to shatter records. @ShreyasIyer15 will grab the headlines. But my captain @ImRo45 Rohit Sharma is THE Man of the Moment.
He sets the match ablaze with his selfless knocks, setting up a stage for the entire team to shine. No milestones, just team glory.
Ye Captain nahi…Captain Marvelous hai.
10 wins on the trot, one win away from being world champions
“When rules-based order was under challenge in Asia, the advice we got from Europe is to do more trade.
At least we are not giving you that advice. We should find a way of returning to diplomacy & dialogue” - @DrSJaishankar at Raisina Dialogue 2022 on #RussiaUkraineConflict.
This interesting person is Uthram Tirunal of Travancore, who reigned between 1846 and 1860. I begin my book 'False Allies' with his story simply because of how arresting a character he is. A short thread.
There is a difference between doing nothing and enacting a farce. Doing nothing has personality; it's ancient and a defiance of the modern consecration of being busy. A farce is bereft of animal intelligence and a way of denying your right to waste time the way you want to.
There is no end to what human mind can achieve. Square Hole drilling was thought to be impossible
Advantage of pantograph mechanism!
Can u drill a square hole?
Yes we can- Dedicated to all young engineers /RT
#Finance & #Expenditure Secretary Dr. T V Somanathan interacted with #IDAS (P) of 2019/20 batches.
Drawing from his vast experience in @FinMinIndia, he discussed the finer aspects of public finance & budgeting, inspiring young officers to work for greater #economy & efficiency.
Today’s middle-aged Chinese grew up amid the largest internal migration in human history, as more than a quarter of a billion people moved from the countryside to the cities. The demands of a new age left some with a lasting sense of loss. https://t.co/cuydaSLNyK
IDAS (P) of 2019/20 batches called on Hon'ble Raksha Mantri Shri @rajnathsingh@DefenceMinIndia, as part of ongoing field attachments in #NewDelhi.
The RM outlined the critical role played by Defence Accounts Dept in #Defence & shared his vision for an #AtmanirbharBharat. (1/2)
Today is a special day for me. On 10 July 1971, I joined the IAS at the National Academy of Admn (now LBBSNAA) alongside all services colleagues- “batchmates”. To celebrate our Golden Jubilee we are getting together via Zoom this evening. This has been a memorable half century.