Real-Time Certified Probabilistic Pedestrian Forecasting

Autor: Henry O. Jacobs, Owen K. Hughes, Matthew Johnson-Roberson, Ram Vasudevan
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2:2064-2071
ISSN: 2377-3774
DOI: 10.1109/lra.2017.2719762
Popis: The success of autonomous systems will depend upon their ability to safely navigate human-centric environments. This motivates the need for a real-time, probabilistic forecasting algorithm for pedestrians, cyclists, and other agents since these predictions will form a necessary step in assessing the risk of any action. This letter presents a novel approach to probabilistic forecasting for pedestrians based on weighted sums of ordinary differential equations that are learned from historical trajectory information within a fixed scene. The resulting algorithm is embarrassingly parallel and is able to work at real-time speeds using a naive Python implementation. The quality of predicted locations of agents generated by the proposed algorithm is validated on a variety of examples and is considerably higher than existing state of the art approaches over long time horizons.
Databáze: OpenAIRE