TRAVERSE: 交通応答型自動運転体験と希少事象シミュレーションによる安全性向上
TRAVERSE: Traffic-Responsive Autonomous Vehicle Experience & Rare-event Simulation for Enhanced safety
VR運転シミュレータで参加者に様々な事故シナリオを体験させ、人間の反応と行動を分析する枠組みを構築した。軽量な没入型ハードウェアを用い、自動運転研究のための希少事象データ収集を容易にする。
著者: Sandeep Thalapanane, Sandip Sharan Senthil Kumar, Guru Nandhan Appiya Dilipkumar Peethambari, Sourang SriHari, Laura Zheng, Julio Poveda, Ming C. Lin
分類: cs.RO, cs.GR
原文アブストラクト
Data for training learning-enabled self-driving cars in the physical world are typically collected in a safe, normal environment. Such data distribution often engenders a strong bias towards safe driving, making self-driving cars unprepared when encountering adversarial scenarios like unexpected accidents. Due to a dearth of such adverse data that is unrealistic for drivers to collect, autonomous vehicles can perform poorly when experiencing such rare events. This work addresses much-needed research by having participants drive a VR vehicle simulator going through simulated traffic with various types of accidental scenarios. It aims to understand human responses and behaviors in simulated accidents, contributing to our understanding of driving dynamics and safety. The simulation framework adopts a robust traffic simulation and is rendered using the Unity Game Engine. Furthermore, the simulation framework is built with portable, light-weight immersive driving simulator hardware, lowering the resource barrier for studies in autonomous driving research. Keywords: Rare Events, Traffic Simulation, Autonomous Driving, Virtual Reality, User Studies
