MIT researchers develop navigation system using GPS, sensors for self-driving cars

Researchers develop MapLite, a framework that allows self-driving cars to drive on the roads without using 3D maps

A team of researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have developed MapLite, a framework that allows self-driving cars to drive on the roads, they have never been on earlier, without using three dimensional (3D) maps, MIT said in a press release on 7 May. The framework, which combines simple GPS data with sensors that monitors the road conditions, allowed the team at CSAIL to drive on multiple unpaved roads in Devens, Massachusetts and detect the road more than 100 feet in advance.