Testing and evaluation are critical steps in the development and deployment of autonomous vehicles (AVs). This paper aims to provide an online adaptive generation framework for critical boundary driving scenarios (CBDS) with flexible complexity and diversity. Both static scenarios and dynamic scenarios are comprehensively investigated based on real traffic flow data, where the generated static scenarios contain variables of drivable area, weather visibility, and road friction coefficient on autonomous vehicles, and the generated dynamic scenarios consider the effects of mixed traffic streams of AVs, human-driven vehicles, bicycles, and pedestrians. Two complexity models are proposed to characterize the complexity of static scenarios and dynamic scenarios separately, which help to construct feedback for the adaptive generation of CBDS. The scenario-based test is carried out on a joint simulation platform, and the multi-dimensional evaluation system, including safety, driving comfort, driving performance, and traffic coordination, is developed to assess the performance of AVs. Based on the proposed complexity models and multi-dimensional evaluation system, the generation of CBDS is transformed into online environmental parameter optimization. Moreover, the naturalistic driving scenarios generation, scenario complexity calculation, intelligent driving algorithm execution, and intelligent driving evaluation are all concatenated together to form a closed loop so as to adaptively generate critical boundary driving scenarios. Extensive simulations are conducted at the intersection with two different types of intelligent driving algorithms, which show the effectiveness of the proposed framework.
Online Adaptive Generation of Critical Boundary Scenarios for Evaluation of Autonomous Vehicles
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems ; 24 , 6 ; 6372-6388
01.06.2023
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