Pedestrian Emergence Estimation and Occlusion-Aware Risk Assessment for Urban Autonomous Driving

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2107.02326v1
• Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2021 00:07:09 GMT
• Title: Pedestrian Emergence Estimation and Occlusion-Aware Risk Assessment for Urban Autonomous Driving
• Authors: Mert Koc, Ekim Yurtsever, Keith Redmill, Umit Ozguner
• Abstract summary: We propose a pedestrian emergence estimation and occlusion-aware risk assessment system for urban autonomous driving. First, the proposed system utilizes available contextual information, such as visible cars and pedestrians, to estimate pedestrian emergence probabilities in occluded regions. The proposed controller outperformed the baselines in terms of safety and comfort measures.
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• Abstract: Avoiding unseen or partially occluded vulnerable road users (VRUs) is a major challenge for fully autonomous driving in urban scenes. However, occlusion-aware risk assessment systems have not been widely studied. Here, we propose a pedestrian emergence estimation and occlusion-aware risk assessment system for urban autonomous driving. First, the proposed system utilizes available contextual information, such as visible cars and pedestrians, to estimate pedestrian emergence probabilities in occluded regions. These probabilities are then used in a risk assessment framework, and incorporated into a longitudinal motion controller. The proposed controller is tested against several baseline controllers that recapitulate some commonly observed driving styles. The simulated test scenarios include randomly placed parked cars and pedestrians, most of whom are occluded from the ego vehicle's view and emerges randomly. The proposed controller outperformed the baselines in terms of safety and comfort measures.

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