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 Mahjourian, Reza


UniGen: Unified Modeling of Initial Agent States and Trajectories for Generating Autonomous Driving Scenarios

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Abstract-- This paper introduces UniGen, a novel approach to generating new traffic scenarios for evaluating and improving autonomous driving software through simulation. By predicting the distributions of all these variables from a shared global scenario embedding, we ensure that the final generated scenario is fully conditioned on all available context in the existing scene. Our unified modeling approach, combined with autoregressive agent injection, conditions the placement and motion trajectory of every new agent on all existing agents and their trajectories, leading to realistic scenarios with low collision rates. Our experimental results show that UniGen outperforms prior state of the art on the Waymo Open Motion Dataset. I. INTRODUCTION Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) have the potential to revolutionize In most prior diverse real-world dataset of such events is difficult and methods, ฯ• and ฯˆ are disjoint and trained separately via two expensive, due to the extensive mileage required to encounter different training procedures.


Robotic Table Tennis: A Case Study into a High Speed Learning System

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

We present a deep-dive into a real-world robotic learning system that, in previous work, was shown to be capable of hundreds of table tennis rallies with a human and has the ability to precisely return the ball to desired targets. This system puts together a highly optimized perception subsystem, a high-speed low-latency robot controller, a simulation paradigm that can prevent damage in the real world and also train policies for zero-shot transfer, and automated real world environment resets that enable autonomous training and evaluation on physical robots. We complement a complete system description, including numerous design decisions that are typically not widely disseminated, with a collection of studies that clarify the importance of mitigating various sources of latency, accounting for training and deployment distribution shifts, robustness of the perception system, sensitivity to policy hyper-parameters, and choice of action space. A video demonstrating the components of the system and details of experimental results can be found at https://youtu.be/uFcnWjB42I0.