A gamified simulator and physical platform for self-driving algorithm training and validation

11/18/2019
by   Joshua E. Siegel, et al.
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We identify the need for a gamified self-driving simulator where game mechanics encourage high-quality data capture, and design and apply such a simulator to collecting lane-following training data. The resulting synthetic data enables a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to drive an in-game vehicle. We simultaneously develop a physical test platform based on a radio-controlled vehicle and the Robotic Operating System (ROS) and successfully transfer the simulation-trained model to the physical domain without modification. The cross-platform simulator facilitates unsupervised crowdsourcing, helping to collect diverse data emulating complex, dynamic environment data, infrequent events, and edge cases. The physical platform provides a low-cost solution for validating simulation-trained models or enabling rapid transfer learning, thereby improving the safety and resilience of self-driving algorithms.

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