A typical trajectory planner of self-driving vehicles commonly relies on predicting the future behavior of surrounding obstacles. Recently, deep learning technology has been widely adopted to design prediction models due to their impressive performance. However, such models may fail in the “long-tail” driving cases where the training data is sparse or unavailable, leading to planner failures. To this end, this work proposes a trajectory planner to consider the prediction model uncertainty arising from insufficient data for safer performance. Firstly, an ensemble network structure estimates the prediction model's uncertainty due to insufficient training data. Then a trajectory planner is designed to consider the worst-case arising from prediction uncertainty. The results show that the proposed method can improve the safety of trajectory planning under the prediction uncertainty caused by insufficient data. At the same time, with sufficient data, the framework will not lead to overly conservative results. This technology helps to improve the safety and reliability of self-driving vehicles under the long-tail data distribution of the real world.


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    Title :

    Long-Tail Prediction Uncertainty Aware Trajectory Planning for Self-driving Vehicles


    Contributors:
    Zhou, Weitao (author) / Cao, Zhong (author) / Xu, Yunkang (author) / Deng, Nanshan (author) / Liu, Xiaoyu (author) / Jiang, Kun (author) / Yang, Diange (author)


    Publication date :

    2022-10-08


    Size :

    2986422 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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