Neural Network Perception for Mobile Robot Guidance

Dean Pomerleau''s trainable road tracker, ALVINN, is arguably the world''s most famous neural net application. It currently holds the world''s record for distance traveled by an autonomous robot without interruption: 21.2 miles along a highway, in traffic, at speedsofup to 55 miles per hour. Pomerleau''s work has received worldwide attention, including articles in Business Week (March 2, 1992), Di...