Swaayatt Robots

Autonomous vehicle learning to dodge traffic, performing stochastic adversarial negotiation. On 27th August we had representatives from the Suzuki Motor Corporation's autonomous department, Genki Maeda (Department Manager, AD Platform Development), Karachi Nobunari (Department General Manager, Advance Technology Development Department) and Ronit Kumar (Suzuki Innovation Center) visit us to test our #autonomousdriving technology. This was a high-stakes demo, where we asked our engineering team (including the founder, Sanjeev Sharma) to ride two wheeler and to cut the path of our autonomous vehicle at random / at will, in a live demo, creating an adversarial scenario, where it is the sole responsibility of our autonomous vehicle to dodge obstacles and prevent accidents. Over the years, we have been building autonomous driving technology to enable negotiation of adversarial-complex-stochastic traffic dynamics. This demo is only a short trailer of what is being developed and what is going to come next. We made the vehicle first negotiate randomly placed static vehicles, bikes and cones on the road. Then in the next section of the road, our engineering team started cutting the path of autonomous vehicle at random, and let it take care of obstacles avoidance and negotiation, balancing aggressiveness and passivity. These algorithmic frameworks are being scaled up to achieve Level-4 and Level-5 autonomous driving, in the most complex of traffic situations imaginable in the world for #autonomousvehicles, i.e., Indian traffic on Indian roads, to conquer this space globally. The speed of the vehicle was kept low in this demo, keeping in mind the safety of the guests. The core motion planning and decision making algorithm in the demo utilized one #reinforcementlearning agent. There is going to be another demo on similar lines next week, on an extended stretch of a road. #deeplearning #India