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Autores principales: Zhou, Yupeng, Cui, Can, Peng, Juntong, Yang, Zichong, Lu, Juanwu, Panchal, Jitesh H, Yao, Bin, Wang, Ziran
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Publicado: 2025
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Acceso en línea:https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14100
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author Zhou, Yupeng
Cui, Can
Peng, Juntong
Yang, Zichong
Lu, Juanwu
Panchal, Jitesh H
Yao, Bin
Wang, Ziran
author_facet Zhou, Yupeng
Cui, Can
Peng, Juntong
Yang, Zichong
Lu, Juanwu
Panchal, Jitesh H
Yao, Bin
Wang, Ziran
contents Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated notable promise in autonomous driving by offering the potential for multimodal reasoning through pretraining on extensive image-text pairs. However, adapting these models from broad web-scale data to the safety-critical context of driving presents a significant challenge, commonly referred to as domain shift. Existing simulation-based and dataset-driven evaluation methods, although valuable, often fail to capture the full complexity of real-world scenarios and cannot easily accommodate repeatable closed-loop testing with flexible scenario manipulation. In this paper, we introduce a hierarchical real-world test platform specifically designed to evaluate VLM-integrated autonomous driving systems. Our approach includes a modular, low-latency on-vehicle middleware that allows seamless incorporation of various VLMs, a clearly separated perception-planning-control architecture that can accommodate both VLM-based and conventional modules, and a configurable suite of real-world testing scenarios on a closed track that facilitates controlled yet authentic evaluations. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed platform`s testing and evaluation ability with a case study involving a VLM-enabled autonomous vehicle, highlighting how our test framework supports robust experimentation under diverse conditions.
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spellingShingle A Hierarchical Test Platform for Vision Language Model (VLM)-Integrated Real-World Autonomous Driving
Zhou, Yupeng
Cui, Can
Peng, Juntong
Yang, Zichong
Lu, Juanwu
Panchal, Jitesh H
Yao, Bin
Wang, Ziran
Robotics
Systems and Control
Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated notable promise in autonomous driving by offering the potential for multimodal reasoning through pretraining on extensive image-text pairs. However, adapting these models from broad web-scale data to the safety-critical context of driving presents a significant challenge, commonly referred to as domain shift. Existing simulation-based and dataset-driven evaluation methods, although valuable, often fail to capture the full complexity of real-world scenarios and cannot easily accommodate repeatable closed-loop testing with flexible scenario manipulation. In this paper, we introduce a hierarchical real-world test platform specifically designed to evaluate VLM-integrated autonomous driving systems. Our approach includes a modular, low-latency on-vehicle middleware that allows seamless incorporation of various VLMs, a clearly separated perception-planning-control architecture that can accommodate both VLM-based and conventional modules, and a configurable suite of real-world testing scenarios on a closed track that facilitates controlled yet authentic evaluations. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed platform`s testing and evaluation ability with a case study involving a VLM-enabled autonomous vehicle, highlighting how our test framework supports robust experimentation under diverse conditions.
title A Hierarchical Test Platform for Vision Language Model (VLM)-Integrated Real-World Autonomous Driving
topic Robotics
Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14100