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This paper proposed a vision-based control framework for lane-following tasks in wheeled mobile robots, validated through both simulations and real-world experiments. The approach effectively maintains the robot position at the center of lanes and enables safe left and right turns by relying solely on visual feedback from onboard camera, without requiring external localization systems or pre-mapped environments. 

The system’s modular design and simplicity allow for seamless integration with other robotic systems, making it versatile for diverse urban navigation scenarios. Future research will focus on enhancing the framework to handle complex scenarios, such as autonomous lane corrections, and incorporating obstacle detection and avoidance mechanisms for improved performance in dynamic, real-world environments. 

These advancements will expand the applicability of the proposed method, confirming its potential as a robust solution for autonomous navigation.

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Our goal was to create a stable and accurate right lane segmentation network by means of simulator data and domain adaptation techniques. We have tested and compared four knowledge transfer methods that included domain transformation using CycleGAN and semi-supervised domain adaptation via Minimax Entropy. We have shown that in the given scenario simulator-trained models have relatively good performance on real images, though their stability is a key weakness.

Our findings demonstrate that domain transformation using CycleGAN has limited applicability in segmentation tasks due to its distorting effect on road geometry, however the similarity between training and testing domains did result in increased stability.

Unfortunately, histogram matching failed in our case to improve on the baseline solution, producing similar results to CycleGAN.

We have observed that one of the simplest domain adaptation methods, source and target combined domain training helped to produce the best performing model according to numerical evaluation.

We implemented and demonstrated how semi-supervised domain adaptation via Minimax Entropy, a complex, entropybased adversarial method is applicable for segmentation tasks.

In the end, all the existing results were compared and evaluated with the conclusion that source and target combined domain training produced the best results of all investigated methods tied with SSDA via Minimax Entropy. Thereby, the usability of the latter method in segmentation tasks has also been proven.

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In this paper, we addressed the growing demand for human-interpretable vision-based RL from a fresh perspective. To that end, we proposed a general self-supervised interpretable framework, which can discover interpretable features for easily understanding the agent’s decision-making process. Concretely, a self-supervised interpretable network (SSINet) was employed to produce high-resolution and sharp attention masks for highlighting task-relevant information, which constitutes most evidence for the agent’s decisions. Then, our method was applied to render empirical evidences about how the agent makes decisions and why the agent performs well or badly, especially when transferred to novel scenes. Overall, our work takes a significant step towards interpretable vision-based RL. Moreover, our method exhibits several appealing benefits. First, our interpretable framework is applicable to any RL model taking as input visual images. Second, our method does not use any external labelled data. Finally, we emphasize that our method demonstrates the possibility to learn high-quality mask through a self-supervised manner, which provides an exciting avenue for applying RL to self automatically labelling and label-free vision learning such as self-supervised segmentation and detection.

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Autonomous cars are currently a vast research area. Due to this increase in the interest of these vehicles, having a costeffective way to implement algorithms, new applications, and to test them in a controlled environment will further help to develop this technology. In this sense, this paper has presented a methodology for following a lane using a cost-effective robot, called the Duckiebot, using visual feedback as a guide for the motion. Although the whole system was capable of detecting the lane that needs to be followed, it is still sensitive to illumination conditions. Therefore, in places with a lot of lighting and brightness variations, the lane recognition algorithm can affect the autonomy of the vehicle.
As future work, machine learning, and particularly convolutional neural networks, is devised as a means to develop robust lane detectors that are not sensitive to brightness variation. Moreover, more than one Duckiebot is intended to drive simultaneously in the Duckietown.