Clustering Vehicle Maneuver Trajectories Using Mixtures of Hidden Markov Models
2018 (English)In: 2018 21st International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), 2018, p. 3698-3705Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
The safety of autonomous vehicles needs to be verified and validated by rigorous testing. It is expensive to test autonomous vehicles in the field, and therefore virtual testing methods are needed. Generative models of maneuvers such as cut-ins, overtakes, and lane-keeping are needed to thoroughly test the autonomous vehicle in a virtual environment. To train such models we need ground truth maneuver labels and obtaining such labels can be time-consuming and costly. In this work, we use a mixture of hidden Markov models to find clusters in maneuver trajectories, which can be used to speed up the labeling process. The maneuver trajectories are noisy, asynchronous and of uneven length, which make hidden Markov models a good fit for the data. The method is evaluated on labeled data from a test track consisting of cut-ins and overtakes with favorable results. Further, it is applied to natural data where many of the clusters found can be interpreted as driver maneuvers under reasonable assumptions. We show that mixtures of hidden Markov models can be used to find motion patterns in driver maneuver data from highways and country roads.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2018. p. 3698-3705
Keywords [en]
driver information systems, hidden Markov models, mobile robots, pattern clustering, road safety, road traffic, road vehicles, roads, vehicle maneuver trajectories, autonomous vehicle, virtual testing methods, generative models, driver maneuver data, asynchronous, cut-ins, clusters, motion patterns, highways, country roads, safety, lane-keeping, Trajectory, Tracking, Clustering methods, Autonomous vehicles
National Category
Natural Sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:ri:diva-51882DOI: 10.1109/ITSC.2018.8569418OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ri-51882DiVA, id: diva2:1519214
Conference
2018 21st International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)
2021-01-182021-01-182023-05-22Bibliographically approved