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Yuesong Xie

Autonomous Driving Engineer

About Me

Greetings from Yuesong Xie(谢岳松)! I am an Autonomous Driving Engineer working on some cool stuffs! Please find the projects that I have worked on in the following sections, and feel free to let me know your thoughts!

Experience

Zoox

Senior Software Engineer

✔ Created safety critical perception system from the ground up.

Honda R&D Americas

Connected and Automated Vehicle Research Engineer

✔ Built proofs of concept and conducted advanced research on connected and automated vehicles.

Magna International

Senior Research Engineer

✔ Developed perception and localization modules for L4 autonomous driving applications.

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles

CAE Engineer

✔ Collaborated with system/component engineers and supplier partners to support the product design during the full development cycle.
✔ Provided design directions to ensure the timely launch of the product.

Dassault Systèmes SIMULIA Corp.

Technical Support Intern

✔ Contributed to the successful completion of 5 consulting projects in a collaborative team environment.
✔ Provided industrial solutions for various fields, including biomedical engineering (human organ numerical model), multi-physics (wind turbine simulation), and structural optimization (weight reduction project)

Purdue University

Research Assistant in Computational Solid Mechanics Lab

✔ Worked on high Performance Scientific Computation in C++ and Python.

Education

Purdue University

August 2010 - May 2016

Ph. D. in Mechanical Engineering

Thesis: Phase field modeling of the defect evolution and failure
Advisor: Professor Marisol Koslowski

University of Science and Technology of China

Sept 2006 - June 2010

B. S. in Modern Mechanics

Thesis: Numerical Modeling of Coalbed Methane Well Testing with IMPES method.
Advisor: Dr. Junfeng Zhang

Projects

Full Perception Pipeline in ROS

Object detection/tracking/fusion based on Apollo in ROS. Complete lidar/camera/radar perception pipeline.

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Automated Valet Parking

Automated Valet Parking demo presented by Magna at CES 2019. Worked on low cost localization solution.

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System Integration

Achieved the 1st team to successfully implement a completely autonomous vehicle system on a Lincoln MKZ, including 3 integrated modules of perception, planning, and control, based on ROS and Autoware. Go Vulture!

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Multi-View 3D Object Detection Neural Network

Predicted 3D bounding boxes of vehicles and pedestrians from Lidar point cloud and camera images and exploited multimodal sensor data and automatic region-based feature fusion to maximize the accuracy.

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Lidar Odometry and Mapping

Implemented a real-time processing system for simultaneously localizing the vehicle and building high- precision maps over large areas with 3D details from Lidar point cloud data.

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Path Planning

Built a path planning algorithm using Finte State Machine in C++ for a car to navigate a 3-lane highway efficiently, and generated smooth and safe path using localization, sensor fusion and map data.

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Lane Line Finding

Detected lane-lines in the camera image using OpenCV by employing camera calibration, color transformation, gradient operation and identifying the lane-line pixels. Predicted the curvature of the road as well as the off-center distance of the vehicle.

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Vehicle Detection

Recognized vehicles in the camera image by performing a Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG) feature extraction on a labeled training set of images and trained a linear Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier in OpenCV.

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Driving Behavior Cloning

Developed a Convolution Neural Network (CNN) in Keras that can predict steering angles from road images, and created video of good human driving behavior in simulator to train the model. After training, the model can drive the car autonomously around the track successfully.

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Traffic Sign Classifier

Built a Deep Neural Network (DNN) using TensorFlow and trained the model using the public German Traffic Sign Dataset with GPU acceleration. The model is able to reach accuracy of 91.2% on test set after training.

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Sensor Fusion

Implemented Extended and Unscented Kalman Filter in C++ to execute the sensor fusion of noisy Lidar and Radar measurements and estimate the moving state with lower than 0.1 m error.

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Vehicle Localization

Designed a 2D Particle Filter in C++ to locate the vehicle, given a map, chatter sensor and control data.

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Model Predictive Control

Controlled the vehicle to drive around the track using Model Predictive Control (MPC) in C++, and resolved the latency issue of actuators, such as steering angle and throttle/brake pedal.

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Skills

Hobbies

Traveling

I am a road enthusiast. Check out the roads I’ve driven on so far here.
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