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Thesis topic proposal
 
Bálint Molnár
Research on the knowledge-based approach for “drivers/controllers” of autonomic systems and self-driving cars

THESIS TOPIC PROPOSAL

Institute: Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
computer sciences
Doctoral School of Informatics

Thesis supervisor: Bálint Molnár
Location of studies (in Hungarian): Faculty of Informatics, Eötvös Loránd University
Abbreviation of location of studies: ELTE


Description of the research topic:

Description of traffic situations and analysis of the relevant characteristics of the situations

The comprehension of a traffic situation plays a major role in driving a vehicle. It transforms perceived raw information into interpretable information. This forms a basis for future projection, decision making and action performing, such as navigating, maneuvering and driving control, within the driving control loop.
The aim of this research is to provide a generic traffic situation description capable of supplying various ADAS (Autonomic Driver Assistance System) with relevant information about the current driving and traffic situation of the ego vehicle („our” car) and its environment. With this information ADAS should be able to perform reasonable functions and actions and approach visionary goals such as injury and accident free driving, substantial assistance in arbitrary situations up to even autonomous driving.
Knowledge-based Traffic Situation Description
Most complex traffic situations seem to be those at intersections. Their understanding is influenced by a variety of object and relation types such as intersecting roads with lanes and markings, allowed and forbidden paths, vehicles coming from different directions and different kinds of road signs (see figure on the top left). Ontologies are well suited for modeling these multi-object traffic situations and for performing logic reasoning to check consistency of its knowledge and to reason about object types, relations and to e.g. apply traffic rules. Description logic (DL) is a language for building such ontologies

Description Logic Based Traffic Situation Description for ADAS
This research is widely concerned with the investigation and validation of applicability and capability of ontology based traffic situation description.
The interpretation and use of the complex networks originated out of the analyses of Big Data (traffic data) should exploit the ontological approach as a model-driven environment for understanding.

Required language skills: English
Recommended language skills (in Hungarian): German
Number of students who can be accepted: 1

Deadline for application: 2018-05-31

 
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