Forecasting the scalable future states of surrounding traffic participants in complex traffic scenarios is a critical capability for autonomous vehicles, as it enables safe and feasible decision-making. Recent successes in learning-based prediction and planning have introduced two primary challenges: generating accurate joint predictions for the environment and integrating prediction guidance for planning purposes. To address these challenges, we propose a two-stage integrated neural planning framework, termed OPGP, that incorporates joint prediction guidance from occupancy forecasting. The preliminary planning phase simultaneously outputs the predicted occupancy for various types of traffic actors based on imitation learning objectives, taking into account shared interactions, scene context, and actor dynamics within a unified Transformer structure. Subsequently, the transformed occupancy prediction guides optimization to further inform safe and smooth planning under Frenet coordinates. We train our planner using a large-scale, real-world driving dataset and validate it in open-loop configurations. Our proposed planner outperforms strong learning-based methods, exhibiting improved performance due to occupancy prediction guidance.


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    Title :

    Occupancy Prediction-Guided Neural Planner for Autonomous Driving


    Contributors:
    Liu, Haochen (author) / Huang, Zhiyu (author) / Lv, Chen (author)


    Publication date :

    2023-09-24


    Size :

    679281 byte





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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