Perception in Plan: Coupled Perception and Planning for End-to-End Autonomous Driving

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11488v1
• Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2025 14:05:57 GMT
• Title: Perception in Plan: Coupled Perception and Planning for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
• Authors: Bozhou Zhang, Jingyu Li, Nan Song, Li Zhang,
• Abstract summary: VeteranAD is a coupled perception and planning framework for end-to-end autonomous driving.<n>We introduce a perception-in-plan framework design, which integrates perception into the planning process.<n>VeteranAD fully unleashes the potential of planning-oriented end-to-end methods, leading to more accurate and reliable driving behavior.
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• Abstract: End-to-end autonomous driving has achieved remarkable advancements in recent years. Existing methods primarily follow a perception-planning paradigm, where perception and planning are executed sequentially within a fully differentiable framework for planning-oriented optimization. We further advance this paradigm through a perception-in-plan framework design, which integrates perception into the planning process. This design facilitates targeted perception guided by evolving planning objectives over time, ultimately enhancing planning performance. Building on this insight, we introduce VeteranAD, a coupled perception and planning framework for end-to-end autonomous driving. By incorporating multi-mode anchored trajectories as planning priors, the perception module is specifically designed to gather traffic elements along these trajectories, enabling comprehensive and targeted perception. Planning trajectories are then generated based on both the perception results and the planning priors. To make perception fully serve planning, we adopt an autoregressive strategy that progressively predicts future trajectories while focusing on relevant regions for targeted perception at each step. With this simple yet effective design, VeteranAD fully unleashes the potential of planning-oriented end-to-end methods, leading to more accurate and reliable driving behavior. Extensive experiments on the NAVSIM and Bench2Drive datasets demonstrate that our VeteranAD achieves state-of-the-art performance.

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