UNCAP: Uncertainty-Guided Neurosymbolic Planning Using Natural Language Communication for Cooperative Autonomous Vehicles
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| author | Bhatt, Neel P. Li, Po-han Gupta, Kushagra Siva, Rohan Milan, Daniel Hogue, Alexander T. Chinchali, Sandeep P. Fridovich-Keil, David Wang, Zhangyang Topcu, Ufuk |
| author_facet | Bhatt, Neel P. Li, Po-han Gupta, Kushagra Siva, Rohan Milan, Daniel Hogue, Alexander T. Chinchali, Sandeep P. Fridovich-Keil, David Wang, Zhangyang Topcu, Ufuk |
| contents | Safe large-scale coordination of multiple cooperative connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs) hinges on communication that is both efficient and interpretable. Existing approaches either rely on transmitting high-bandwidth raw sensor data streams or neglect perception and planning uncertainties inherent in shared data, resulting in systems that are neither scalable nor safe. To address these limitations, we propose Uncertainty-Guided Natural Language Cooperative Autonomous Planning (UNCAP), a vision-language model-based planning approach that enables CAVs to communicate via lightweight natural language messages while explicitly accounting for perception uncertainty in decision-making. UNCAP features a two-stage communication protocol: (i) an ego CAV first identifies the subset of vehicles most relevant for information exchange, and (ii) the selected CAVs then transmit messages that quantitatively express their perception uncertainty. By selectively fusing messages that maximize mutual information, this strategy allows the ego vehicle to integrate only the most relevant signals into its decision-making, improving both the scalability and reliability of cooperative planning. Experiments across diverse driving scenarios show a 63% reduction in communication bandwidth with a 31% increase in driving safety score, a 61% reduction in decision uncertainty, and a four-fold increase in collision distance margin during near-miss events. Project website: https://uncap-project.github.io/ |
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| spellingShingle | UNCAP: Uncertainty-Guided Neurosymbolic Planning Using Natural Language Communication for Cooperative Autonomous Vehicles Bhatt, Neel P. Li, Po-han Gupta, Kushagra Siva, Rohan Milan, Daniel Hogue, Alexander T. Chinchali, Sandeep P. Fridovich-Keil, David Wang, Zhangyang Topcu, Ufuk Robotics Computation and Language Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Multiagent Systems Safe large-scale coordination of multiple cooperative connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs) hinges on communication that is both efficient and interpretable. Existing approaches either rely on transmitting high-bandwidth raw sensor data streams or neglect perception and planning uncertainties inherent in shared data, resulting in systems that are neither scalable nor safe. To address these limitations, we propose Uncertainty-Guided Natural Language Cooperative Autonomous Planning (UNCAP), a vision-language model-based planning approach that enables CAVs to communicate via lightweight natural language messages while explicitly accounting for perception uncertainty in decision-making. UNCAP features a two-stage communication protocol: (i) an ego CAV first identifies the subset of vehicles most relevant for information exchange, and (ii) the selected CAVs then transmit messages that quantitatively express their perception uncertainty. By selectively fusing messages that maximize mutual information, this strategy allows the ego vehicle to integrate only the most relevant signals into its decision-making, improving both the scalability and reliability of cooperative planning. Experiments across diverse driving scenarios show a 63% reduction in communication bandwidth with a 31% increase in driving safety score, a 61% reduction in decision uncertainty, and a four-fold increase in collision distance margin during near-miss events. Project website: https://uncap-project.github.io/ |
| title | UNCAP: Uncertainty-Guided Neurosymbolic Planning Using Natural Language Communication for Cooperative Autonomous Vehicles |
| topic | Robotics Computation and Language Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Multiagent Systems |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12992 |