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Purpose

The purpose of this paper aims to model interaction relationship of traffic agents for motion prediction, which is critical for autonomous driving. It is obvious that traffic agents’ trajectories are influenced by physical lane rules and agents’ social interactions.

Design/methodology/approach

In this paper, the authors propose the social relation and physical lane aggregator for multimodal motion prediction, where the social relations of agents are mainly captured with graph convolutional networks and self-attention mechanism and then fused with the physical lane via the self-attention mechanism.

Findings

The proposed methods are evaluated on the Waymo Open Motion Dataset, and the results show the effectiveness of the proposed two feature aggregation modules for trajectory prediction.

Originality/value

This paper proposes a new design method to extract traffic interactions, and the attention mechanism is used in each part of the model to extract and fuse different relational features, which is different from other methods and improves the accuracy of the LSTM-based trajectory prediction method.


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Social relation and physical lane aggregator: integrating social and physical features for multimodal motion prediction

Show Author's information Qiyuan Chen1Zebing Wei1Xiao Wang1Lingxi Li2Yisheng Lv3( )
The State Key Laboratory for Management and Control of Complex Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China and School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Complex Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China and School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper aims to model interaction relationship of traffic agents for motion prediction, which is critical for autonomous driving. It is obvious that traffic agents’ trajectories are influenced by physical lane rules and agents’ social interactions.

Design/methodology/approach

In this paper, the authors propose the social relation and physical lane aggregator for multimodal motion prediction, where the social relations of agents are mainly captured with graph convolutional networks and self-attention mechanism and then fused with the physical lane via the self-attention mechanism.

Findings

The proposed methods are evaluated on the Waymo Open Motion Dataset, and the results show the effectiveness of the proposed two feature aggregation modules for trajectory prediction.

Originality/value

This paper proposes a new design method to extract traffic interactions, and the attention mechanism is used in each part of the model to extract and fuse different relational features, which is different from other methods and improves the accuracy of the LSTM-based trajectory prediction method.

Keywords: Deep learning, Machine learning, Autonomous driving, Trajectory prediction

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Received: 09 July 2022
Revised: 29 July 2022
Accepted: 29 July 2022
Published: 25 August 2022
Issue date: October 2022

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© 2022 Qiyuan Chen, Zebing Wei, Xiao Wang, Lingxi Li and Yisheng Lv. Published in Journal of Intelligent and Connected Vehicles. Published by Emerald Publishing Limited.

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