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1 Abstract

In the last 50 years, information technology has automated many jobs like word proc es s in g,

mathematical calculation and data retrieval. However, as driving a car is much more diﬃcult than

such simple jobs, it has always been a dream to do so autonomously with a computer. With the

development of related technologies, people have begun signiﬁcant work on making this dream a

reality.

For automakers, it is more proﬁtable to invest in a mature market – semi-automatic ve hi cl es .

However, this project aims to develop a fully automated driving system that is proﬁtable in the

market. To accomplish this, thi s project uses a sin gle personal computer in s te ad of computer clusters

as in experimental projects like Stanford’s Junior. Th is opens up the possibility of migrating the

software into high-end smartphones due to their gradually increasing performance. In this case, we

simpliﬁed existing algorithms and still keep the basic functionality, but we still have to make sure

that our system is safe enough for passengers. In addition, this project only uses cheap sensors. For

instance, the video cameras are low-end webcams and cameras in s mart ph ones rather than high-end

professional cameras. Thus, the deﬁnition of our sensors is lower and the res ponding time may be

longer. So we have to use multiple sensors to reach redundancy and robustness.

This paper discusses a subset of the larger autonomous vehicle project. In particular, i t includes

the GPS driver module migration and Orca Robotics middleware integration.

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