Leveraging Swarm Intelligence to Drive Autonomously: A Particle Swarm Optimization based Approach to Motion Planning

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Main Authors: Ochs, Sven, Doll, Jens, Heinrich, Marc, Schörner, Philip, Klemm, Sebastian, Zofka, Marc René, Zöllner, J. Marius
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Published: 2024
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author Ochs, Sven
Doll, Jens
Heinrich, Marc
Schörner, Philip
Klemm, Sebastian
Zofka, Marc René
Zöllner, J. Marius
author_facet Ochs, Sven
Doll, Jens
Heinrich, Marc
Schörner, Philip
Klemm, Sebastian
Zofka, Marc René
Zöllner, J. Marius
contents Motion planning is an essential part of autonomous mobile platforms. A good pipeline should be modular enough to handle different vehicles, environments, and perception modules. The planning process has to cope with all the different modalities and has to have a modular and flexible design. But most importantly, it has to be safe and robust. In this paper, we want to present our motion planning pipeline with particle swarm optimization (PSO) at its core. This solution is independent of the vehicle type and has a clear and simple-to-implement interface for perception modules. Moreover, the approach stands out for being easily adaptable to new scenarios. Parallel calculation allows for fast planning cycles. Following the principles of PSO, the trajectory planer first generates a swarm of initial trajectories that are optimized afterward. We present the underlying control space and inner workings. Finally, the application to real-world automated driving is shown in the evaluation with a deeper look at the modeling of the cost function. The approach is used in our automated shuttles that have already driven more than 3.500 km safely and entirely autonomously in sub-urban everyday traffic.
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spellingShingle Leveraging Swarm Intelligence to Drive Autonomously: A Particle Swarm Optimization based Approach to Motion Planning
Ochs, Sven
Doll, Jens
Heinrich, Marc
Schörner, Philip
Klemm, Sebastian
Zofka, Marc René
Zöllner, J. Marius
Robotics
Motion planning is an essential part of autonomous mobile platforms. A good pipeline should be modular enough to handle different vehicles, environments, and perception modules. The planning process has to cope with all the different modalities and has to have a modular and flexible design. But most importantly, it has to be safe and robust. In this paper, we want to present our motion planning pipeline with particle swarm optimization (PSO) at its core. This solution is independent of the vehicle type and has a clear and simple-to-implement interface for perception modules. Moreover, the approach stands out for being easily adaptable to new scenarios. Parallel calculation allows for fast planning cycles. Following the principles of PSO, the trajectory planer first generates a swarm of initial trajectories that are optimized afterward. We present the underlying control space and inner workings. Finally, the application to real-world automated driving is shown in the evaluation with a deeper look at the modeling of the cost function. The approach is used in our automated shuttles that have already driven more than 3.500 km safely and entirely autonomously in sub-urban everyday traffic.
title Leveraging Swarm Intelligence to Drive Autonomously: A Particle Swarm Optimization based Approach to Motion Planning
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02644