An Uncertainty-Aware Lane Change Motion Planning Algorithm Based on Probabilistic Trajectory Prediction Distribution

Comprehensive and accurate understanding of the interactive traffic environment facilitates reasonable motion planning for automated vehicles. This paper presents an overall risk assessment method for the host vehicle to achieve efficient motion planning considering uncertainties of the predicted dr...

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Main Authors: Zhiqiang Zhang, Lei Zhang, Mingqiang Wang, Cong Wang, Zhenpo Wang
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Published: IEEE 2024-01-01
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10599622/
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Lei Zhang
Mingqiang Wang
Cong Wang
Zhenpo Wang
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Cong Wang
Zhenpo Wang
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description Comprehensive and accurate understanding of the interactive traffic environment facilitates reasonable motion planning for automated vehicles. This paper presents an overall risk assessment method for the host vehicle to achieve efficient motion planning considering uncertainties of the predicted driving behaviors of surrounding vehicles. A Social Temporal Convolutional Long Short-Term Memory network is constructed to capture the interactive characteristics among the host and surrounding vehicles and to predict the statistical distribution of the trajectory prediction uncertainty in the prediction horizon. Then a two-dimensional Gaussian distribution-based dynamic risk assessment with a soft update method is developed to spatially and temporally quantify the driving risk by constructing the occupancy map based on the multi-modal distribution of the predicted trajectories for the surrounding vehicles. The optimal motion of the host vehicle is determined by minimizing a multi-objective function of the alternative driving behaviors. The effectiveness of the proposed scheme is verified under typical driving scenarios extracted from the NGSIM dataset. The results show that the proposed method can comprehensively evaluate the potential risk and efficiently achieve motion planning while minimizing the driving risk.
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spelling doaj-art-c7aab3081e1649ad928ff162cc0500c62025-01-30T00:04:15ZengIEEEIEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology2644-13302024-01-0151386139910.1109/OJVT.2024.342864510599622An Uncertainty-Aware Lane Change Motion Planning Algorithm Based on Probabilistic Trajectory Prediction DistributionZhiqiang Zhang0Lei Zhang1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1763-0397Mingqiang Wang2Cong Wang3Zhenpo Wang4https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1396-906XAdvanced Technology Research Institute, Beijing Institute of Technology, Jinan, ChinaAdvanced Technology Research Institute, Beijing Institute of Technology, Jinan, ChinaNational Engineering Research Center for Electric Vehicles, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, ChinaSchool of Vehicle and Mobility, Tsinghua University, Beijing, ChinaAdvanced Technology Research Institute, Beijing Institute of Technology, Jinan, ChinaComprehensive and accurate understanding of the interactive traffic environment facilitates reasonable motion planning for automated vehicles. This paper presents an overall risk assessment method for the host vehicle to achieve efficient motion planning considering uncertainties of the predicted driving behaviors of surrounding vehicles. A Social Temporal Convolutional Long Short-Term Memory network is constructed to capture the interactive characteristics among the host and surrounding vehicles and to predict the statistical distribution of the trajectory prediction uncertainty in the prediction horizon. Then a two-dimensional Gaussian distribution-based dynamic risk assessment with a soft update method is developed to spatially and temporally quantify the driving risk by constructing the occupancy map based on the multi-modal distribution of the predicted trajectories for the surrounding vehicles. The optimal motion of the host vehicle is determined by minimizing a multi-objective function of the alternative driving behaviors. The effectiveness of the proposed scheme is verified under typical driving scenarios extracted from the NGSIM dataset. The results show that the proposed method can comprehensively evaluate the potential risk and efficiently achieve motion planning while minimizing the driving risk.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10599622/Automated vehiclesrisk assessmentmotion planningpredictive occupancy map
spellingShingle Zhiqiang Zhang
Lei Zhang
Mingqiang Wang
Cong Wang
Zhenpo Wang
An Uncertainty-Aware Lane Change Motion Planning Algorithm Based on Probabilistic Trajectory Prediction Distribution
IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology
Automated vehicles
risk assessment
motion planning
predictive occupancy map
title An Uncertainty-Aware Lane Change Motion Planning Algorithm Based on Probabilistic Trajectory Prediction Distribution
title_full An Uncertainty-Aware Lane Change Motion Planning Algorithm Based on Probabilistic Trajectory Prediction Distribution
title_fullStr An Uncertainty-Aware Lane Change Motion Planning Algorithm Based on Probabilistic Trajectory Prediction Distribution
title_full_unstemmed An Uncertainty-Aware Lane Change Motion Planning Algorithm Based on Probabilistic Trajectory Prediction Distribution
title_short An Uncertainty-Aware Lane Change Motion Planning Algorithm Based on Probabilistic Trajectory Prediction Distribution
title_sort uncertainty aware lane change motion planning algorithm based on probabilistic trajectory prediction distribution
topic Automated vehicles
risk assessment
motion planning
predictive occupancy map
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10599622/
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