Dynamically Local-Enhancement Planner for Large-Scale Autonomous Driving

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Main Authors: Deng, Nanshan, Zhou, Weitao, Zhang, Bo, Wen, Junze, Jiang, Kun, Cao, Zhong, Yang, Diange
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author Deng, Nanshan
Zhou, Weitao
Zhang, Bo
Wen, Junze
Jiang, Kun
Cao, Zhong
Yang, Diange
author_facet Deng, Nanshan
Zhou, Weitao
Zhang, Bo
Wen, Junze
Jiang, Kun
Cao, Zhong
Yang, Diange
contents Current autonomous vehicles operate primarily within limited regions, but there is increasing demand for broader applications. However, as models scale, their limited capacity becomes a significant challenge for adapting to novel scenarios. It is increasingly difficult to improve models for new situations using a single monolithic model. To address this issue, we introduce the concept of dynamically enhancing a basic driving planner with local driving data, without permanently modifying the planner itself. This approach, termed the Dynamically Local-Enhancement (DLE) Planner, aims to improve the scalability of autonomous driving systems without significantly expanding the planner's size. Our approach introduces a position-varying Markov Decision Process formulation coupled with a graph neural network that extracts region-specific driving features from local observation data. The learned features describe the local behavior of the surrounding objects, which is then leveraged to enhance a basic reinforcement learning-based policy. We evaluated our approach in multiple scenarios and compared it with a one-for-all driving model. The results show that our method outperforms the baseline policy in both safety (collision rate) and average reward, while maintaining a lighter scale. This approach has the potential to benefit large-scale autonomous vehicles without the need for largely expanding on-device driving models.
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spellingShingle Dynamically Local-Enhancement Planner for Large-Scale Autonomous Driving
Deng, Nanshan
Zhou, Weitao
Zhang, Bo
Wen, Junze
Jiang, Kun
Cao, Zhong
Yang, Diange
Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Current autonomous vehicles operate primarily within limited regions, but there is increasing demand for broader applications. However, as models scale, their limited capacity becomes a significant challenge for adapting to novel scenarios. It is increasingly difficult to improve models for new situations using a single monolithic model. To address this issue, we introduce the concept of dynamically enhancing a basic driving planner with local driving data, without permanently modifying the planner itself. This approach, termed the Dynamically Local-Enhancement (DLE) Planner, aims to improve the scalability of autonomous driving systems without significantly expanding the planner's size. Our approach introduces a position-varying Markov Decision Process formulation coupled with a graph neural network that extracts region-specific driving features from local observation data. The learned features describe the local behavior of the surrounding objects, which is then leveraged to enhance a basic reinforcement learning-based policy. We evaluated our approach in multiple scenarios and compared it with a one-for-all driving model. The results show that our method outperforms the baseline policy in both safety (collision rate) and average reward, while maintaining a lighter scale. This approach has the potential to benefit large-scale autonomous vehicles without the need for largely expanding on-device driving models.
title Dynamically Local-Enhancement Planner for Large-Scale Autonomous Driving
topic Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.21134