Tractable Joint Prediction and Planning over Discrete Behavior Modes for Urban Driving

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Auteurs principaux: Villaflor, Adam, Yang, Brian, Su, Huangyuan, Fragkiadaki, Katerina, Dolan, John, Schneider, Jeff
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author Villaflor, Adam
Yang, Brian
Su, Huangyuan
Fragkiadaki, Katerina
Dolan, John
Schneider, Jeff
author_facet Villaflor, Adam
Yang, Brian
Su, Huangyuan
Fragkiadaki, Katerina
Dolan, John
Schneider, Jeff
contents Significant progress has been made in training multimodal trajectory forecasting models for autonomous driving. However, effectively integrating these models with downstream planners and model-based control approaches is still an open problem. Although these models have conventionally been evaluated for open-loop prediction, we show that they can be used to parameterize autoregressive closed-loop models without retraining. We consider recent trajectory prediction approaches which leverage learned anchor embeddings to predict multiple trajectories, finding that these anchor embeddings can parameterize discrete and distinct modes representing high-level driving behaviors. We propose to perform fully reactive closed-loop planning over these discrete latent modes, allowing us to tractably model the causal interactions between agents at each step. We validate our approach on a suite of more dynamic merging scenarios, finding that our approach avoids the $\textit{frozen robot problem}$ which is pervasive in conventional planners. Our approach also outperforms the previous state-of-the-art in CARLA on challenging dense traffic scenarios when evaluated at realistic speeds.
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spellingShingle Tractable Joint Prediction and Planning over Discrete Behavior Modes for Urban Driving
Villaflor, Adam
Yang, Brian
Su, Huangyuan
Fragkiadaki, Katerina
Dolan, John
Schneider, Jeff
Robotics
Machine Learning
Significant progress has been made in training multimodal trajectory forecasting models for autonomous driving. However, effectively integrating these models with downstream planners and model-based control approaches is still an open problem. Although these models have conventionally been evaluated for open-loop prediction, we show that they can be used to parameterize autoregressive closed-loop models without retraining. We consider recent trajectory prediction approaches which leverage learned anchor embeddings to predict multiple trajectories, finding that these anchor embeddings can parameterize discrete and distinct modes representing high-level driving behaviors. We propose to perform fully reactive closed-loop planning over these discrete latent modes, allowing us to tractably model the causal interactions between agents at each step. We validate our approach on a suite of more dynamic merging scenarios, finding that our approach avoids the $\textit{frozen robot problem}$ which is pervasive in conventional planners. Our approach also outperforms the previous state-of-the-art in CARLA on challenging dense traffic scenarios when evaluated at realistic speeds.
title Tractable Joint Prediction and Planning over Discrete Behavior Modes for Urban Driving
topic Robotics
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07232