Autonomous DeLorean drives sideways to move forward

It's interesting what's happening as the control theory people get into machine learning. The controls people don't typically run a neural net as a controller. They use the trained net as a tool for building a controller with known continuity properties. The trouble with pure neural net controllers is that they sometimes do something totally bogus for some data point within the normal input space. That's not OK in control systems.

This has all the math of machine learning plus the math of control theory and I don't understand it, although I sometimes look at the papers.

[1] https://news.stanford.edu/2015/10/20/marty-autonomous-delore...

Re: Autonomous DeLorean drives sideways to move forward

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Post by saagarjha » Sun, Dec 22, 2019, 5:11 AM UTC

I was half expecting a Toyota Sprinter Trueno and Eurobeat. Pop references aside, though, what is this useful for? I thought cars were designed to not skid normally due to ABS?

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Post by spectramax » Sun, Dec 22, 2019, 5:15 AM UTC

This could be a pay-to-ride-for-thrill startup idea. What a ride!

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Post by jamestimmins » Sun, Dec 22, 2019, 5:16 AM UTC

So is the general idea that by removing the automated controls, which normally limit drift so human drivers don't lose control, they're able to gather data at the extremes of car handling?

I'm curious how this would be applied in the real world. It almost seemed to suggest that a self-driving car would operate with those stability controls turned off, allowing it operate evasive maneuvers that would be impossible in a human-driven car.

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Post by w-ll » Sun, Dec 22, 2019, 5:18 AM UTC

philliphaydon wrote: post #3

Soon we will have autonomous f1.

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