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Developing IncidentUI -- A Ride Comfort and Disengagement Evaluation Application for Autonomous Vehicles
This report details the design, development, and implementation of
IncidentUI, an Android tablet application designed to measure user-experienced
ride comfort and record disengagement data for autonomous vehicles (AV) during
test drives. The goal of our project was to develop an Android application to
run on a peripheral tablet and communicate with the Drive Pegasus AGX, the AI
Computing Platform for Nvidia's AV Level 2 Autonomy Solution Architecture [1],
to detect AV disengagements and report ride comfort. We designed and developed
an Android XML-based intuitive user interface for IncidentUI. The development
of IncidentUI required a redesign of the system architecture by redeveloping
the system communications protocol in Java and implementing the Protocol
Buffers (Protobufs) in Java using the existing system Protobuf definitions. The
final iteration of IncidentUI yielded the desired functionality while testing
on an AV test drive. We also received positive feedback from Nvidia's AV
Platform Team during our final IncidentUI demonstration.Comment: Previously embargoed by Nvidia. Nvidia owns the right
Robotics for Disaster Relief
Firefighting is a dangerous occupation and several firefighters die in the line of duty every year around the United States. It is important to do all that we can to mitigate these losses. One such method is to develop tools to aid supervisory personnel at the site of a firefighting incident. The goal of this project was to develop a user interface that would help visualize data that is made available to firefighters through devices and sensors that they have on them as well as the data from potential robots that are part of such operations. Our interface aggregates observations made in studies ranging from human-computer-interaction to search-and-rescue with respect to user interface design elements. We also make recommendations for the development of a fully-working user interface