统一目标让轨迹规划更安全舒适,尤其在复杂交互场景中表现突出。
DiffuSearch: How Hybrid Trajectory Planning Benefits from Aligned Objectives in Diffusion and Action Space

- 用统一目标引导扩散生成与MCTS搜索,保持前后一致
- 在nuPlan和interPlan上碰撞率显著降低,舒适度明显提升
- 适合追求高安全性和可解释性的自动驾驶系统研发
在自动驾驶轨迹规划中,混合规划架构通常由多个目标各异的模块组成,缺乏统一原则易导致初始与精炼轨迹不一致,造成次优行为。为此,我们提出DiffuSearch,一种在生成与精炼阶段均采用统一目标的新型混合规划器。模型通过碰撞规避、可行驶区域合规、驾驶舒适性与前进进度等共享目标,引导整个流程。其两阶段设计:首先,使用可微分引导函数的扩散模型生成场景一致的联合轨迹;其次,基于离散动作空间的蒙特卡洛树搜索(MCTS)以相同目标作为奖励函数进行局部精炼。该协同设计结合了扩散模型生成全局一致性解的能力与MCTS的可解释性与约束感知能力。在nuPlan和interPlan的反应式闭环基准测试中,DiffuSearch展现出强性能,显著减少碰撞并提升舒适度,尤其在复杂交互场景中效果突出。消融实验表明,MCTS精炼是性能提升的主要来源,而生成与搜索共享目标进一步带来稳定改进。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
In trajectory planning for autonomous driving, hybrid planning architectures are often realized as a collection of disparate modules, each with its own objectives. This lack of a unifying principle can lead to inconsistencies between the initial and refined trajectory, resulting in suboptimal behavior. We address this by introducing DiffuSearch, a novel hybrid planner that uses a unified set of objectives across generation and refinement. Our model encourages all components to follow the same shared driving goals: collision avoidance, drivable area compliance, comfort, and progress. DiffuSearch employs a two-stage architecture. First, a guided diffusion model generates a scene-consistent, joint trajectory prediction, using our driving objectives as differentiable guidance functions to implicitly steer the denoising process. Second, a Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) in a discretized action space performs an explicit, local refinement of this proposal, leveraging the same driving objectives as its reward function. This synergistic design leverages the diffusion model's strength in finding scene-consistent solutions combined with the explainable, constraint-aware refinement of MCTS. Experiments on nuPlan and interPlan reactive closed-loop benchmarks demonstrate that DiffuSearch achieves strong and often state-of-the-art performance, substantially reducing collisions and improving comfort, particularly in complex, interactive scenarios. Our ablation studies indicate that MCTS refinement is the main mechanism behind the gains, while sharing objectives between implicit guidance and explicit search provides further consistent improvements.
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