QuAD: Query-based Interpretable Neural Motion Planning for Autonomous Driving

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2404.01486v1
• Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2024 21:11:43 GMT
• Title: QuAD: Query-based Interpretable Neural Motion Planning for Autonomous Driving
• Authors: Sourav Biswas, Sergio Casas, Quinlan Sykora, Ben Agro, Abbas Sadat, Raquel Urtasun,
• Abstract summary: Self-driving vehicles must understand its environment to determine appropriate action. Traditional systems rely on object detection to find agents in the scene. We present a unified, interpretable, and efficient autonomy framework that moves away from cascading modules that first perceive occupancy relevant-temporal autonomy.
• Score: 33.609780917199394
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: A self-driving vehicle must understand its environment to determine the appropriate action. Traditional autonomy systems rely on object detection to find the agents in the scene. However, object detection assumes a discrete set of objects and loses information about uncertainty, so any errors compound when predicting the future behavior of those agents. Alternatively, dense occupancy grid maps have been utilized to understand free-space. However, predicting a grid for the entire scene is wasteful since only certain spatio-temporal regions are reachable and relevant to the self-driving vehicle. We present a unified, interpretable, and efficient autonomy framework that moves away from cascading modules that first perceive, then predict, and finally plan. Instead, we shift the paradigm to have the planner query occupancy at relevant spatio-temporal points, restricting the computation to those regions of interest. Exploiting this representation, we evaluate candidate trajectories around key factors such as collision avoidance, comfort, and progress for safety and interpretability. Our approach achieves better highway driving quality than the state-of-the-art in high-fidelity closed-loop simulations.

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