Steering Prediction via a Multi-Sensor System for Autonomous Racing

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Hauptverfasser: Zhou, Zhuyun, Wu, Zongwei, Bolli, Florian, Boutteau, Rémi, Yang, Fan, Timofte, Radu, Ginhac, Dominique, Delbruck, Tobi
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author Zhou, Zhuyun
Wu, Zongwei
Bolli, Florian
Boutteau, Rémi
Yang, Fan
Timofte, Radu
Ginhac, Dominique
Delbruck, Tobi
author_facet Zhou, Zhuyun
Wu, Zongwei
Bolli, Florian
Boutteau, Rémi
Yang, Fan
Timofte, Radu
Ginhac, Dominique
Delbruck, Tobi
contents Autonomous racing has rapidly gained research attention. Traditionally, racing cars rely on 2D LiDAR as their primary visual system. In this work, we explore the integration of an event camera with the existing system to provide enhanced temporal information. Our goal is to fuse the 2D LiDAR data with event data in an end-to-end learning framework for steering prediction, which is crucial for autonomous racing. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study addressing this challenging research topic. We start by creating a multisensor dataset specifically for steering prediction. Using this dataset, we establish a benchmark by evaluating various SOTA fusion methods. Our observations reveal that existing methods often incur substantial computational costs. To address this, we apply low-rank techniques to propose a novel, efficient, and effective fusion design. We introduce a new fusion learning policy to guide the fusion process, enhancing robustness against misalignment. Our fusion architecture provides better steering prediction than LiDAR alone, significantly reducing the RMSE from 7.72 to 1.28. Compared to the second-best fusion method, our work represents only 11% of the learnable parameters while achieving better accuracy. The source code, dataset, and benchmark will be released to promote future research.
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spellingShingle Steering Prediction via a Multi-Sensor System for Autonomous Racing
Zhou, Zhuyun
Wu, Zongwei
Bolli, Florian
Boutteau, Rémi
Yang, Fan
Timofte, Radu
Ginhac, Dominique
Delbruck, Tobi
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robotics
Autonomous racing has rapidly gained research attention. Traditionally, racing cars rely on 2D LiDAR as their primary visual system. In this work, we explore the integration of an event camera with the existing system to provide enhanced temporal information. Our goal is to fuse the 2D LiDAR data with event data in an end-to-end learning framework for steering prediction, which is crucial for autonomous racing. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study addressing this challenging research topic. We start by creating a multisensor dataset specifically for steering prediction. Using this dataset, we establish a benchmark by evaluating various SOTA fusion methods. Our observations reveal that existing methods often incur substantial computational costs. To address this, we apply low-rank techniques to propose a novel, efficient, and effective fusion design. We introduce a new fusion learning policy to guide the fusion process, enhancing robustness against misalignment. Our fusion architecture provides better steering prediction than LiDAR alone, significantly reducing the RMSE from 7.72 to 1.28. Compared to the second-best fusion method, our work represents only 11% of the learnable parameters while achieving better accuracy. The source code, dataset, and benchmark will be released to promote future research.
title Steering Prediction via a Multi-Sensor System for Autonomous Racing
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.19356