abstract = "The most important characteristics of autonomous
vehicles are their safety and their ability to adapt to
various traffic situations and road conditions. In our
research, we focused on the development of controllers
for automated steering of a realistically simulated car
in slippery road conditions. We comparatively
investigated three implementations of such controllers:
a proportional-derivative (PD) controller built in
accordance with the canonical servo-control model of
steering, a PID controller as an extension of the
servo-control, and a controller designed heuristically
via the most versatile evolutionary computing paradigm:
genetic programming (GP). The experimental results
suggest that the controller evolved via GP offers the
best quality of control of the car in all of the tested
slippery (rainy, snowy, and icy) road conditions.",
notes = "Department of Information Systems Design, Faculty of
Engineering, Doshisha University 1-3, Tatara
Miyakodani, Kyotanabe City, Kyoto 610-0394,
Japan