Sensor work: enabling the interoperation of
autonomous vehicles

Sensor work: enabling the interoperation of
autonomous vehicles

sensing, autonomous driving, interoperability, sensor work, machine vision, AI

This article examines the “sensor work” carried out in the development of autonomous vehicles which, without sensor data, would not and
arguably still do not, have the capacity to decide on where, and how, to drive. I begin by discussing three aspects of sensor technologies
considered to be the foundation for sensor work being carried out in autonomous vehicle settings, namely the distribution, processing, and
sourcing of sensor technologies and sensor data. The article considers how that much of this sensor work aids not only the operation of
autonomous vehicles but also their necessary “interoperation.” In studying four specific sensing methods from an operational perspective,
I consider how the interoperation between sensing devices and subsequent algorithmic, object-recognition, and motion planning procedures is
fundamental to the development of autonomous vehicles.

Sam Hind

https://doi.org/10.1093/jcmc/zmad014

Oxford University Press on behalf of International Communication Association.

5 April 2023

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