Autonomous vehicles are very good at carrying out the specific task of driving – as long as nothing in their path changes.
, assistant professor of computer science and engineering in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, is working to develop ways that a planning agent can help autonomous vehicles, robots or other devices that use machine learning can improve their understanding of the world.
The agent also will either provide a guarantee that either the operation is safe – or a warning is given that safety cannot be guaranteed. The work is funded by a three-year, $419,877 grant from the ³Ô¹ÏÍøÕ¾ Science Foundation. Through the , Juba is collaborating with Roni Stern, a faculty member in the Department of Software and Information Systems Engineering at Ben-Gurion University in Israel.
