Towards Validation of Autonomous Vehicles Across Scales using an Integrated Digital Twin Framework

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Hauptverfasser: Samak, Tanmay Vilas, Samak, Chinmay Vilas, Krovi, Venkat Narayan
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Veröffentlicht: 2024
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author Samak, Tanmay Vilas
Samak, Chinmay Vilas
Krovi, Venkat Narayan
author_facet Samak, Tanmay Vilas
Samak, Chinmay Vilas
Krovi, Venkat Narayan
contents Autonomous vehicle platforms of varying spatial scales are employed within the research and development spectrum based on space, safety and monetary constraints. However, deploying and validating autonomy algorithms across varying operational scales presents challenges due to scale-specific dynamics, sensor integration complexities, computational constraints, regulatory considerations, environmental variability, interaction with other traffic participants and scalability concerns. In such a milieu, this work focuses on developing a unified framework for modeling and simulating digital twins of autonomous vehicle platforms across different scales and operational design domains (ODDs) to help support the streamlined development and validation of autonomy software stacks. Particularly, this work discusses the development of digital twin representations of 4 autonomous ground vehicles, which span across 3 different scales and target 3 distinct ODDs. We study the adoption of these autonomy-oriented digital twins to deploy a common autonomy software stack with an aim of end-to-end map-based navigation to achieve the ODD-specific objective(s) for each vehicle. Finally, we also discuss the flexibility of the proposed framework to support virtual, hybrid as well as physical testing with seamless sim2real transfer.
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spellingShingle Towards Validation of Autonomous Vehicles Across Scales using an Integrated Digital Twin Framework
Samak, Tanmay Vilas
Samak, Chinmay Vilas
Krovi, Venkat Narayan
Robotics
Autonomous vehicle platforms of varying spatial scales are employed within the research and development spectrum based on space, safety and monetary constraints. However, deploying and validating autonomy algorithms across varying operational scales presents challenges due to scale-specific dynamics, sensor integration complexities, computational constraints, regulatory considerations, environmental variability, interaction with other traffic participants and scalability concerns. In such a milieu, this work focuses on developing a unified framework for modeling and simulating digital twins of autonomous vehicle platforms across different scales and operational design domains (ODDs) to help support the streamlined development and validation of autonomy software stacks. Particularly, this work discusses the development of digital twin representations of 4 autonomous ground vehicles, which span across 3 different scales and target 3 distinct ODDs. We study the adoption of these autonomy-oriented digital twins to deploy a common autonomy software stack with an aim of end-to-end map-based navigation to achieve the ODD-specific objective(s) for each vehicle. Finally, we also discuss the flexibility of the proposed framework to support virtual, hybrid as well as physical testing with seamless sim2real transfer.
title Towards Validation of Autonomous Vehicles Across Scales using an Integrated Digital Twin Framework
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.12670