Multi-Agent Path Integral Control for Interaction-Aware Motion Planning in Urban Canals

Autor: Streichenberg, Lucas, Trevisan, Elia, Chung, Jen Jen, Siegwart, Roland, Alonso-Mora, Javier
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: 2023 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA48891.2023.10161511
Popis: Autonomous vehicles that operate in urban environments shall comply with existing rules and reason about the interactions with other decision-making agents. In this paper, we introduce a decentralized and communication-free interaction-aware motion planner and apply it to Autonomous Surface Vessels (ASVs) in urban canals. We build upon a sampling-based method, namely Model Predictive Path Integral control (MPPI), and employ it to, in each time instance, compute both a collision-free trajectory for the vehicle and a prediction of other agents' trajectories, thus modeling interactions. To improve the method's efficiency in multi-agent scenarios, we introduce a two-stage sample evaluation strategy and define an appropriate cost function to achieve rule compliance. We evaluate this decentralized approach in simulations with multiple vessels in real scenarios extracted from Amsterdam's canals, showing superior performance than a state-of-the-art trajectory optimization framework and robustness when encountering different types of agents.
Comment: Accepted for presentation at the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Databáze: arXiv