自动驾驶车辆用自然语言通信,精准传递感知不确定性,大幅降带宽提安全。
UNCAP: Uncertainty-Guided Neurosymbolic Planning Using Natural Language Communication for Cooperative Autonomous Vehicles
- 通过自然语言消息传递感知不确定性,仅选择关键车辆通信。
- 通信带宽减少63%,驾驶安全评分提升31%。
- 适合需要高效安全协同的自动驾驶系统研究者。
多车协同自动驾驶(CAVs)的安全大规模协调依赖于高效且可解释的通信。现有方法或依赖高带宽原始传感器数据流,或忽略共享数据中的感知与规划不确定性,导致系统难以扩展且不安全。为此,我们提出不确定性引导的自然语言协同自动驾驶规划方法(UNCAP),基于视觉-语言模型,使车辆通过轻量级自然语言消息通信,并在决策中显式考虑感知不确定性。UNCAP采用两阶段通信协议:(i) 主体车辆首先识别最相关的信息交换对象;(ii) 被选车辆发送量化其感知不确定性的消息。通过选择性融合最大化互信息的消息,主体车辆仅整合最相关信号,从而提升协同规划的可扩展性与可靠性。多样驾驶场景实验表明,通信带宽降低63%,驾驶安全评分提升31%,决策不确定性减少61%,近撞事件中碰撞距离裕度提升四倍。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Safe large-scale coordination of multiple cooperative connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs) hinges on communication that is both efficient and interpretable. Existing approaches either rely on transmitting high-bandwidth raw sensor data streams or neglect perception and planning uncertainties inherent in shared data, resulting in systems that are neither scalable nor safe. To address these limitations, we propose Uncertainty-Guided Natural Language Cooperative Autonomous Planning (UNCAP), a vision-language model-based planning approach that enables CAVs to communicate via lightweight natural language messages while explicitly accounting for perception uncertainty in decision-making. UNCAP features a two-stage communication protocol: (i) an ego CAV first identifies the subset of vehicles most relevant for information exchange, and (ii) the selected CAVs then transmit messages that quantitatively express their perception uncertainty. By selectively fusing messages that maximize mutual information, this strategy allows the ego vehicle to integrate only the most relevant signals into its decision-making, improving both the scalability and reliability of cooperative planning. Experiments across diverse driving scenarios show a 63% reduction in communication bandwidth with a 31% increase in driving safety score, a 61% reduction in decision uncertainty, and a four-fold increase in collision distance margin during near-miss events. Project website: https://uncap-project.github.io/
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