A Cost Function-Oriented Quantitative Evaluation Method for Unmanned Ground Vehicles

Abstract:

Task driven approach is widely used as an evaluation method for intelligent vehicle, however this approach may lead to many teams using the conservative approach to complete the task. Although the competition task can be completed, it has deviated from the goal of technological development actually. A cost function-oriented quantitative evaluation method is proposed in this study. The time to complete each task and the quality of each indicator are considered in the evaluation method. The cost function-oriented quantitative evaluation method guides the intelligent vehicle’s development in the "low-cost index" (i.e. high technology) direction. The evaluation results in the 2010 Future Challenge: Intelligent Vehicles and Beyond (FC’ 2010) competition showed that the proposed method can quantitatively evaluate the overall technical performance and individual technical performance of unmanned vehicles.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 301-303)
• Pages: 701-706
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.301-303.701
• Online since: July 2011
• Authors: Yang Sun, Guang Ming Xiong, Hui Yan Chen, Shao Bin Wu, Jian Wei Gong, Yan Jiang
• Keywords: Analysis Hierarchy Process (AHP), FC’2010, Quantitative Evaluation, Unmanned Ground Vehicle

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