1. We Need to Talk: Identifying and Overcoming Communication-Critical Scenarios for Self-Driving
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Glaser, Nathaniel Moore and Kira, Zsolt
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FOS: Computer and information sciences ,Computer Science - Robotics ,Computer Science - Multiagent Systems ,Robotics (cs.RO) ,Multiagent Systems (cs.MA) - Abstract
In this work, we consider the task of collision-free trajectory planning for connected self-driving vehicles. We specifically consider communication-critical situations--situations where single-agent systems have blindspots that require multi-agent collaboration. To identify such situations, we propose a method which (1) simulates multi-agent perspectives from real self-driving datasets, (2) finds scenarios that are challenging for isolated agents, and (3) augments scenarios with adversarial obstructions. To overcome these challenges, we propose to extend costmap-based trajectory evaluation to a distributed multi-agent setting. We demonstrate that our bandwidth-efficient, uncertainty-aware method reduces collision rates by up to 62.5% compared to single agent baselines., Comment: Submitted to ICRA 2023 Workshop on Collaborative Perception
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- 2023
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