Abstract
In this paper, to what degree the driving operation of the vehicle such as an electromotive wheelchair can be automated by using an artificial neural network was investigated by computer simulation on three kinds of travel courses in a little complicated environment. The three layer BP network was made to learn the relation between the steering angle of a driver and the surrounding scenes, and its autonomous driving performance in reference to the travel course was examined. As a result, BP network could learn the driving operation on a relatively simple travel course, but not fully on more complicated travel courses.
