分离短期与长期决策,提升城市自动驾驶规划效率
PlanScope: Learning to Plan Within Decision Scope for Urban Autonomous Driving
- 用小波变换分离轨迹中的长短决策成分
- 引入细节解码器增强模型生成细节能力
- 多尺度监督策略实现跨层级决策指导,适合改进现有规划模型
在城市自动驾驶场景中,基于模仿学习的方法表现优异,通常通过最小化专家驾驶日志与预测决策序列之间的差异来优化。然而,专家日志中包含未来短期决策(如应对突发障碍或快速变化的交通信号),这些不可预测事件及其对应反应会引入推理干扰,影响规划模型的收敛效率。同时,长期决策信息(如保持车道或避开静止障碍)对指导短期决策至关重要。初步实验显示,缩短规划时域会导致驾驶性能先升后降,验证了该假设。为此,本文提出PlanScope,一种新型序贯决策学习框架,通过小波变换从轨迹中识别并提取决策成分;为增强神经网络生成细节的能力,设计额外的细节解码器;并通过多尺度监督策略,在训练中实现跨层级的在作用域内决策监督。所提方法,特别是时变归一化机制,在nuPlan数据集的闭环评估中优于基线模型,可作为即插即用方案提升现有规划模型。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
In the context of urban autonomous driving, imitation learning-based methods have shown remarkable effectiveness, with a typical practice to minimize the discrepancy between expert driving logs and predictive decision sequences. As expert driving logs natively contain future short-term decisions with respect to events, such as sudden obstacles or rapidly changing traffic signals. We believe that unpredictable future events and corresponding expert reactions can introduce reasoning disturbances, negatively affecting the convergence efficiency of planning models. At the same time, long-term decision information, such as maintaining a reference lane or avoiding stationary obstacles, is essential for guiding short-term decisions. Our preliminary experiments on shortening the planning horizon show a rise-and-fall trend in driving performance, supporting these hypotheses. Based on these insights, we present PlanScope, a sequential-decision-learning framework with novel techniques for separating short-term and long-term decisions in decision logs. To identify and extract each decision component, the Wavelet Transform on trajectory profiles is proposed. After that, to enhance the detail-generating ability of Neural Networks, extra Detail Decoders are proposed. Finally, to enable in-scope decision supervision across detail levels, Multi-Scope Supervision strategies are adopted during training. The proposed methods, especially the time-dependent normalization, outperform baseline models in closed-loop evaluations on the nuPlan dataset, offering a plug-and-play solution to enhance existing planning models.
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