Interactive simulation platform using processing-based visualization for safe collision-free autonomous driving development

Abstract

Autonomous driving for maximum throughput of traffic is too complex to cover various cases of exceptions in relation to large-scale cars in city, while still guaranteeing safety of the self-organizing algorithm. In this paper, we present a simulation-integrated interactive visualization platform to enable the fast development of a safe self-organizing driving algorithm. Using the proposed platform, developers describe geographic roads and allocate active cars equipped with specific autonomous algorithms. The cross-coupled simulation result of the self-organized movement of cars is interactively visualized with traffic on roads to show the weakness of the embedded autonomous driving algorithm. We show a demonstration for 1000 cars on 300 junctions of roads and offer a way to accelerate the development of self-organizing control in autonomous cars.