Conservative Estimation of Perception Relevance of Dynamic Objects for Safe Trajectories in Automotive Scenarios

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2307.10873v1
• Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2023 13:43:48 GMT
• Title: Conservative Estimation of Perception Relevance of Dynamic Objects for Safe Trajectories in Automotive Scenarios
• Authors: Ken Mori, Kai Storms, Steven Peters
• Abstract summary: The concept of relevance currently remains insufficiently defined and specified. We propose a novel methodology to overcome this challenge by exemplary application to collision safety in the highway domain. We present a conservative estimation which dynamic objects are relevant for perception and need to be considered for a complete evaluation.
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• Abstract: Having efficient testing strategies is a core challenge that needs to be overcome for the release of automated driving. This necessitates clear requirements as well as suitable methods for testing. In this work, the requirements for perception modules are considered with respect to relevance. The concept of relevance currently remains insufficiently defined and specified. In this paper, we propose a novel methodology to overcome this challenge by exemplary application to collision safety in the highway domain. Using this general system and use case specification, a corresponding concept for relevance is derived. Irrelevant objects are thus defined as objects which do not limit the set of safe actions available to the ego vehicle under consideration of all uncertainties. As an initial step, the use case is decomposed into functional scenarios with respect to collision relevance. For each functional scenario, possible actions of both the ego vehicle and any other dynamic object are formalized as equations. This set of possible actions is constrained by traffic rules, yielding relevance criteria. As a result, we present a conservative estimation which dynamic objects are relevant for perception and need to be considered for a complete evaluation. The estimation provides requirements which are applicable for offline testing and validation of perception components. A visualization is presented for examples from the highD dataset, showing the plausibility of the results. Finally, a possibility for a future validation of the presented relevance concept is outlined.

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