Coordinated Multi-Agent Motion Planning via Imitation Learning

Abstract

As autonomous vehicles (AVs) become increasingly adopted, many opportunities to share information and communicate with one another will arise. This ability to communicate reduces future uncertainties and allows for collaboration in downstream tasks, such as planning, ensuring increased road- side safety. Currently, many motion planners treat other AVs as standalone human agents and plan to avoid their futures without exploring the potential for collaboration and better- informed motion planning. Towards this end, we present a method for coordinated multi-agent motion planning between two or more AVs that search over a distribution of expert future trajectories to jointly plan paths. We evaluate our model on a didactic, illustrative dataset to experimentally verify its performance, with future plans to use more realistic perception data.

Publication
ICRA Workshop on Fresh Perspectives on the Future of Autonomous Driving
Andrei Ivanovic
Andrei Ivanovic
MSc in Computer Science Student

I am a Master’s in Computer Science student at the University of Toronto and a recent graduate of the Engineering Science program at the University of Toronto, majoring in Machine Intelligence with a Robotics/Mechatronics minor. My interests include deep learning, robotics, and computer vision.