Project: Panasonic 3D Lidar Challenge

Overview

Fall 2019

Spring 2020

Tasks

Priority: HIGH

• Fix OPC & Safety System
• Verify & Re-tune Teleoperative Capability
• Train ML Algorithms on new data collected from Waymo-OD
• Update Panasonic Lidar transform
• Update person-follow node to follow point in 2D space
• Write Panasonic Lidar node to output person location as point in 2D space
• Test batching algorithm on simulated data
• Using 3D Lidar to detect road height
• Collect training data from virtual 3D Lidar

Priority: MEDIUM

• Write script to generate training data from Panasonic Lidar
• Collect training data of cones to augment Waymo Dataset
• Retrain ML Algorithms on additional cone data

Priority: LOW

Extensions

• Combine with CV algorithm to resolve multi-person confusion
• Set type of object to follow, allow tractor to follow vehicles