Autonomous Driving with Spiking Neural Networks

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Hauptverfasser: Zhu, Rui-Jie, Wang, Ziqing, Gilpin, Leilani, Eshraghian, Jason K.
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author Zhu, Rui-Jie
Wang, Ziqing
Gilpin, Leilani
Eshraghian, Jason K.
author_facet Zhu, Rui-Jie
Wang, Ziqing
Gilpin, Leilani
Eshraghian, Jason K.
contents Autonomous driving demands an integrated approach that encompasses perception, prediction, and planning, all while operating under strict energy constraints to enhance scalability and environmental sustainability. We present Spiking Autonomous Driving (SAD), the first unified Spiking Neural Network (SNN) to address the energy challenges faced by autonomous driving systems through its event-driven and energy-efficient nature. SAD is trained end-to-end and consists of three main modules: perception, which processes inputs from multi-view cameras to construct a spatiotemporal bird's eye view; prediction, which utilizes a novel dual-pathway with spiking neurons to forecast future states; and planning, which generates safe trajectories considering predicted occupancy, traffic rules, and ride comfort. Evaluated on the nuScenes dataset, SAD achieves competitive performance in perception, prediction, and planning tasks, while drawing upon the energy efficiency of SNNs. This work highlights the potential of neuromorphic computing to be applied to energy-efficient autonomous driving, a critical step toward sustainable and safety-critical automotive technology. Our code is available at \url{https://github.com/ridgerchu/SAD}.
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spellingShingle Autonomous Driving with Spiking Neural Networks
Zhu, Rui-Jie
Wang, Ziqing
Gilpin, Leilani
Eshraghian, Jason K.
Neural and Evolutionary Computing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Autonomous driving demands an integrated approach that encompasses perception, prediction, and planning, all while operating under strict energy constraints to enhance scalability and environmental sustainability. We present Spiking Autonomous Driving (SAD), the first unified Spiking Neural Network (SNN) to address the energy challenges faced by autonomous driving systems through its event-driven and energy-efficient nature. SAD is trained end-to-end and consists of three main modules: perception, which processes inputs from multi-view cameras to construct a spatiotemporal bird's eye view; prediction, which utilizes a novel dual-pathway with spiking neurons to forecast future states; and planning, which generates safe trajectories considering predicted occupancy, traffic rules, and ride comfort. Evaluated on the nuScenes dataset, SAD achieves competitive performance in perception, prediction, and planning tasks, while drawing upon the energy efficiency of SNNs. This work highlights the potential of neuromorphic computing to be applied to energy-efficient autonomous driving, a critical step toward sustainable and safety-critical automotive technology. Our code is available at \url{https://github.com/ridgerchu/SAD}.
title Autonomous Driving with Spiking Neural Networks
topic Neural and Evolutionary Computing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.19687