Seamless Virtual Reality with Integrated Synchronizer and Synthesizer for Autonomous Driving

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Main Authors: Li, He, Han, Ruihua, Zhao, Zirui, Xu, Wei, Hao, Qi, Wang, Shuai, Xu, Chengzhong
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Published: 2024
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author Li, He
Han, Ruihua
Zhao, Zirui
Xu, Wei
Hao, Qi
Wang, Shuai
Xu, Chengzhong
author_facet Li, He
Han, Ruihua
Zhao, Zirui
Xu, Wei
Hao, Qi
Wang, Shuai
Xu, Chengzhong
contents Virtual reality (VR) is a promising data engine for autonomous driving (AD). However, data fidelity in this paradigm is often degraded by VR inconsistency, for which the existing VR approaches become ineffective, as they ignore the inter-dependency between low-level VR synchronizer designs (i.e., data collector) and high-level VR synthesizer designs (i.e., data processor). This paper presents a seamless virtual reality SVR platform for AD, which mitigates such inconsistency, enabling VR agents to interact with each other in a shared symbiotic world. The crux to SVR is an integrated synchronizer and synthesizer IS2 design, which consists of a drift-aware lidar-inertial synchronizer for VR colocation and a motion-aware deep visual synthesis network for augmented reality image generation. We implement SVR on car-like robots in two sandbox platforms, achieving a cm-level VR colocalization accuracy and 3.2% VR image deviation, thereby avoiding missed collisions or model clippings. Experiments show that the proposed SVR reduces the intervention times, missed turns, and failure rates compared to other benchmarks. The SVR-trained neural network can handle unseen situations in real-world environments, by leveraging its knowledge learnt from the VR space.
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spellingShingle Seamless Virtual Reality with Integrated Synchronizer and Synthesizer for Autonomous Driving
Li, He
Han, Ruihua
Zhao, Zirui
Xu, Wei
Hao, Qi
Wang, Shuai
Xu, Chengzhong
Robotics
Virtual reality (VR) is a promising data engine for autonomous driving (AD). However, data fidelity in this paradigm is often degraded by VR inconsistency, for which the existing VR approaches become ineffective, as they ignore the inter-dependency between low-level VR synchronizer designs (i.e., data collector) and high-level VR synthesizer designs (i.e., data processor). This paper presents a seamless virtual reality SVR platform for AD, which mitigates such inconsistency, enabling VR agents to interact with each other in a shared symbiotic world. The crux to SVR is an integrated synchronizer and synthesizer IS2 design, which consists of a drift-aware lidar-inertial synchronizer for VR colocation and a motion-aware deep visual synthesis network for augmented reality image generation. We implement SVR on car-like robots in two sandbox platforms, achieving a cm-level VR colocalization accuracy and 3.2% VR image deviation, thereby avoiding missed collisions or model clippings. Experiments show that the proposed SVR reduces the intervention times, missed turns, and failure rates compared to other benchmarks. The SVR-trained neural network can handle unseen situations in real-world environments, by leveraging its knowledge learnt from the VR space.
title Seamless Virtual Reality with Integrated Synchronizer and Synthesizer for Autonomous Driving
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03541