Planning with Adaptive World Models for Autonomous Driving

arXiv 2024

Carnegie Mellon University

tl;dr: We propose a model-predictive-control (MPC)-based planner (AdaptiveDriver) that makes use of world models who's agent behaviours adapt to the sequence. We compare AdaptiveDriver to state-of-art baselines (PDMC[1]).

PDMC collides with a decelerating lead vehicle (frame 20) while AdaptiveDriver avoids the collision.

PDMC collides with a decelerating lead vehicle (frame 20) while AdaptiveDriver avoids the collision.

AdaptiveDriver reaches the goal state (green square) faster than PDMC for a turn-right sequence.

AdaptiveDriver reaches the goal state (green square) faster than PDMC for a straight-road sequence.

Related Works

[1] Dauner, Daniel, et al. "Parting with misconceptions about learning-based vehicle motion planning." Conference on Robot Learning. PMLR, 2023.