Jan Schneegans, Jan Eilbrecht, Stefan Zernetsch, Maarten Bieshaar, Konrad Doll, O. Stursberg, B. Sick
{"title":"Probabilistic VRU Trajectory Forecasting for Model-Predictive Planning A Case Study: Overtaking Cyclists","authors":"Jan Schneegans, Jan Eilbrecht, Stefan Zernetsch, Maarten Bieshaar, Konrad Doll, O. Stursberg, B. Sick","doi":"10.1109/ivworkshops54471.2021.9669208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ivworkshops54471.2021.9669208","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines probabilistic trajectory forecasting methods of vulnerable road users (VRU) for the motion planning of autonomous vehicles. The future trajectories of a cyclist are predicted by Quantile Surface Neural Networks (QSN) and Mixture Density Neural Networks (MDN), both modeling confidence regions around the cyclist’s expected locations. Confidence regions are approximated by different methods with varying degrees of complexity to bridge the gap between forecasting and planning. Model-Predictive Planning (MPP) based on these regions is used for the autonomous vehicle. The approach is evaluated using a case study regarding safe trajectory planning for overtaking cyclists. The experiments show the effectiveness of the approach. Different considerations on the use of combined probabilistic trajectory prediction and vehicle trajectory planning are included.","PeriodicalId":256905,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium Workshops (IV Workshops)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130810843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"OpenPlanner 2.0: The Portable Open Source Planner for Autonomous Driving Applications","authors":"H. Darweesh, E. Takeuchi, K. Takeda","doi":"10.1109/ivworkshops54471.2021.9669253","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ivworkshops54471.2021.9669253","url":null,"abstract":"There are few open source autonomous driving planners that are general enough to be used directly, or which could be easily customized to suit a particular application. OpenPlanner 1.0 was introduced back in 2017 to fill this gap. It was developed and integrated with the open source autonomous driving framework Autoware. Since then, many improvements have been introduced, following the original design goals. In this paper, the basic design will be re-introduced along with the latest developed technologies. The new planner is called OpenPlanner 2.0 and includes several new techniques such as multiple HD road network map formats support, trajectory and behavior estimation, planning based HMI support, path generation using kinematics based motion simulation and lane change behavior. OpenPlanner 2.0 is already attracting attention from the autonomous driving research and development communities; universities and companies. Several projects are using and contributing to its code base. Some of these applications will be discussed in this paper as well. A comparison between OpenPlanner and other open source planners showing the aspects where it is superior is also presented.","PeriodicalId":256905,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium Workshops (IV Workshops)","volume":"423 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131751974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards Knowledge-based Road Modeling for Automated Vehicles: Analysis and Concept for Incorporating Prior Knowledge","authors":"Jenny Fricke, Christopher Plachetka, B. Rech","doi":"10.1109/ivworkshops54471.2021.9669220","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ivworkshops54471.2021.9669220","url":null,"abstract":"Typically, automated driving functions rely on high-definition maps for modeling the stationary environment (SE). However, outdated or erroneous maps pose a risk to both safety and performance of such a driving function. To address the issue of false map data provided to the vehicle, deviations ahead of the vehicle must be detected and corrected, preferably within the vehicle. To enable the continued operation of the driving function, a SE model as input to the driving function has to be generated on the fly. Moreover, to reduce the probability to encounter deviations in the first place, map update hypotheses have to be provided, e.g., to compute an update in an external server. In this paper, we present a concept for integrating prior knowledge, e.g., regarding rule-compliant lane configurations, into the generation of the SE model. Prior knowledge enables the evaluation of undetected elements, the interpretation of connections between elements, and an overall plausibility check. Last, we provide an example for SE modeling for which we demonstrate the benefit of incorporating prior knowledge. The main novelity of this work is to show a way of deriving and representing required knowledge for SE modeling. Instead of focussing on individual infrastructure entities (e.g., intersection) as typically discussed in related works, we establish our derivation by analyzing traffic regulations and exemplary critical scenarios that arise due to the presence of map deviations.","PeriodicalId":256905,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium Workshops (IV Workshops)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128503882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jiahui Zhang, Zhiqiang Jian, Jiawei Fu, Zhixiong Nan, J. Xin, N. Zheng
{"title":"Trajectory Planning with Comfort and Safety in Dynamic Traffic Scenarios for Autonomous Driving","authors":"Jiahui Zhang, Zhiqiang Jian, Jiawei Fu, Zhixiong Nan, J. Xin, N. Zheng","doi":"10.1109/ivworkshops54471.2021.9669202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ivworkshops54471.2021.9669202","url":null,"abstract":"Trajectory planning is one of the most important modules of the Autonomous Driving Systems (ADSs), which aims to achieve a safe and comfortable interaction between the ADSs and obstacles. Currently, it remains a challenging issue to simultaneously ensure the comfort and safety of the planned trajectory, especially in dynamic traffic scenarios. In this paper, a trajectory planning method is proposed for autonomous vehicles to drive in dynamic traffic scenarios considering both comfort and safety. First, trajectory candidates are generated through the separation of path generation and velocity generation, and then some cost functions are constructed to evaluate each trajectory candidate to obtain the final trajectory. The proposed trajectory generation method guarantees the continuity of generated trajectory in both curvature and jerk, and the cost functions are proposed with the Trajectory Comfort Evaluation Model (TCEM) and Trajectory Safety Evaluation Model (TSEM), which balance the comfort and safety of a trajectory. Experiments prove the effectiveness of the proposed trajectory planner and its robustness in dynamic traffic scenarios.","PeriodicalId":256905,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium Workshops (IV Workshops)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114137772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An adaptive cooperative adaptive cruise control against varying vehicle loads*","authors":"Yiming Zhang, Jia Hu, Haoran Wang, Zhizhou Wu","doi":"10.1109/ivworkshops54471.2021.9669236","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ivworkshops54471.2021.9669236","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a universal CACC is proposed to accommodate the fact that vehicle load changes from time to time. The same vehicle could weigh differently when hauling a different number of passengers or moving a different amount of cargo. To achieve this, a dynamic matrix control-based approach is designed. The proposed controller is formulated in space domain to take advantage of the historical information of the leader to improve control accuracy and stability. It was evaluated on a Carsim-Prescan integrated simulation platform. Sensitivity analysis was conducted in terms of speed and vehicle load. Results confirm that the same proposed controller is able to maintain string stability while handling varying speeds and vehicle loads.","PeriodicalId":256905,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium Workshops (IV Workshops)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116230805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Regulating Road Vehicle Teleoperation: Back to the Near Future","authors":"P. Linné, Jeanette Andersson","doi":"10.1109/ivworkshops54471.2021.9669226","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ivworkshops54471.2021.9669226","url":null,"abstract":"Due to the many remaining obstacles before reliability and safety can sufficiently be guaranteed for high-level automated vehicles (AVs), teleoperation or remote operation of partially automated vehicles by a human driver has become increasingly interesting to consider. However, remote operation, including remote driving, has so far only received little attention in legal scientific and transportation literature. This paper aims to establish some basic legal matters for remote driving by examining its regulatory development in three different jurisdictions. A combination of methods is employed including an examination of literature regarding AVs and their regulation. The main result is that current regulation in the examined jurisdictions intentionally addresses a future with high-level AVs, but to a large extent excludes regulatory details for remote operation. In conclusion, this paper argues that both present and coming regulation for automated vehicles ought to be more near future-oriented and address the concept of remote operation more explicitly. This, for regulation to be better in touch with current technology, for the benefit of a wider acceptance in society, for legal certainty, but also for innovation support and stability for investments in technology.","PeriodicalId":256905,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium Workshops (IV Workshops)","volume":"134 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127586269","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
William C. Tamayo, N. E. Chelbi, D. Gingras, Frédéric Faulconnier
{"title":"Improving Object Distance Estimation in Automated Driving Systems Using Camera Images, LiDAR Point Clouds and Hierarchical Clustering","authors":"William C. Tamayo, N. E. Chelbi, D. Gingras, Frédéric Faulconnier","doi":"10.1109/ivworkshops54471.2021.9669206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ivworkshops54471.2021.9669206","url":null,"abstract":"Data fusion plays a significant role in autonomous driving domain. Using an efficient combination of sensors like LiDAR, radar, and cameras could determine how quickly and accurately a vehicle makes all kinds of decisions related to road safety. In this article, we propose two approaches to improve object distance estimation by combining camera and LiDAR sensors. This work is inspired by the work presented in [2]. We propose to use instance segmentation and hierarchical clustering algorithms to resolve estimation errors generated when two or several bounding boxes (bbox) of detected objects overlap with each other. KITTI and Waymo databases were used to evaluate the accuracy of the proposed approaches. Finally, we compare the accuracy of our approaches with the accuracy proposed in [2] for some specific scenarios.","PeriodicalId":256905,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium Workshops (IV Workshops)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124852735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Observer design with performance guarantees for vehicle control purposes via the integration of learning-based and LPV approaches","authors":"Dániel Fényes, T. Hegedüs, B. Németh, P. Gáspár","doi":"10.1109/ivworkshops54471.2021.9669224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ivworkshops54471.2021.9669224","url":null,"abstract":"The paper proposes an enhanced observer design method for autonomous vehicles, with which the unmeasurable states in vehicle and chassis motion can be estimated. The novelty of the method is that the learning-based observer and the linear parameter varying (LPV) observer in a joint observer design structure are incorporated, which results in an improved performance level on the estimation error. Nevertheless, the proposed design method is able to guarantee the limitation of the estimation error, even if the error of the learning-based observer under all scenarios cannot be verified. Thus, the proposed method handles the main disadvantage of the learning-based approaches, i.e. the lack of performance guarantees, while their advantages, i.e. the improved observation performance in the operation of the observer are taken. The proposed method is applied on a lateral path following control problem, where the goal of the observer is to provide an accurate lateral velocity signal for the vehicle. The effectiveness of the method is illustrated through simulation examples on high- fidelity vehicle dynamic simulator CarSim.","PeriodicalId":256905,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium Workshops (IV Workshops)","volume":"99 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132707176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Identification of Vehicle Dynamics Parameters Using Simulation-based Inference","authors":"Ali Boyali, S. Thompson, D. Wong","doi":"10.1109/ivworkshops54471.2021.9669252","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ivworkshops54471.2021.9669252","url":null,"abstract":"Identifying tire and vehicle parameters is an essential step in designing control and planning algorithms for autonomous vehicles. This paper proposes a new method: Simulation-Based Inference (SBI), a modern interpretation of Approximate Bayesian Computation methods (ABC) for parameter identification. The simulation-based inference is an emerging method in the machine learning literature and has proven to yield accurate results for many parameter sets in complex problems. We demonstrate in this paper that it can handle the identification of highly nonlinear vehicle dynamics parameters and gives accurate estimates of the parameters for the governing equations.","PeriodicalId":256905,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium Workshops (IV Workshops)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129908324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jasmin Breitenstein, Andreas Bär, Daniel Lipinski, T. Fingscheidt
{"title":"Detection of Collective Anomalies in Images for Automated Driving Using an Earth Mover’s Deviation (EMDEV) Measure","authors":"Jasmin Breitenstein, Andreas Bär, Daniel Lipinski, T. Fingscheidt","doi":"10.1109/ivworkshops54471.2021.9669217","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ivworkshops54471.2021.9669217","url":null,"abstract":"For visual perception in automated driving, a reliable detection of so-called corner cases is important. Corner cases appear in many different forms and can be image frame- or sequence-related. In this work, we consider a specific type of corner case: collective anomalies. These are instances that appear in unusually large amounts in an image. We propose a detection method for collective anomalies based on a comparison of a test (sub-)set instance distribution to a training (i.e., reference) instance distribution, both distributions obtained by an instance-based semantic segmentation. For this comparison, we propose a novel so-called earth mover’s deviation (EMDEV) measure, which is able to provide signed deviations of instance distributions. Further, we propose a sliding window approach to allow the comparison of instance distributions in an online application in the vehicle. With our approach, we are able to identify collective anomalies by the proposed EMDEV measure, and to detect deviations from the instance distribution of the reference dataset.","PeriodicalId":256905,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium Workshops (IV Workshops)","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127488842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}