Multi-agent autonomous racing is a challenging
problem for autonomous vehicles due to the split-second, and
complex decisions that vehicles must continuously make during
a race. The presence of other agents on the track requires
continuous monitoring of the ego vehicle’s surroundings, and
necessitates predicting the behavior of other vehicles so the ego
can quickly react to a changing environment with informed
decisions. In our previous work we have developed the DeepRacing AI framework for autonomous formula one racing. Our
DeepRacing framework was the first implementation to use
the highly photorealisitc Formula One game as a simulation
testbed for autonomous racing. We have successfully demonstrated single agent high speed autonomous racing using Bezier
curve trajectories. In this paper, we extend the capabilities of
the DeepRacing framework towards multi-agent autonomous
racing. To do so, we first develop and learn a virtual camera
model from game data that the user can configure to emulate the
presence of a camera sensor on the vehicle. Next we propose
and train a deep recurrent neural network that can predict
the future poses of opponent agents in the field of view of the
virtual camera using vehicles position, velocity, and heading
data with respect to the ego vehicle racecar. We demonstrate
early promising results for both these contributions in the game.
These added features will extend the DeepRacing framework
to become more suitable for multi-agent autonomous racing
algorithm development
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Continuous integration and testing for autonomous racing software: An experience report from GRAIC
Self-driving autonomous vehicles (AVs) have recently gained popularity as a research topic. The safety of AVs is exceptionally important as failure in the design of an AV could lead to catastrophic consequences. AV systems are highly heterogeneous with many different and complex components, so it is difficult to perform end-to-end testing. One solution to this dilemma is to evaluate AVs using simulated racing competition. In this thesis, we present a simulated autonomous racing competition, Generalized RAcing Intelligence Competition (GRAIC). To compete in GRAIC, participants need to submit their controller files which are deployed on a racing ego-vehicle on different race tracks. To evaluate the submitted controller, we also developed a testing pipeline, Autonomous System Operations (AutOps). AutOps is an automated, scalable, and fair testing pipeline developed using software engineering techniques such as continuous integration, containerization, and serverless computing. In order to evaluate the submitted controller in non-trivial circumstances, we populate the race tracks with scenarios, which are pre-defined traffic situations commonly seen in the real road. We present a dynamic scenario testing strategy that generates new scenarios based on results of the ego-vehicle passing through previous scenarios.
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- PAR ID:
- 10296575
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- IEEE ICRA 2021, International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Workshop on OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES WITH AUTONOMOUS RACING
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- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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