Spatio-semantic road space modeling for vehicle-pedestrian simulation to test automated driving systems

Benedikt Schwab, Christof Beil, Thomas H. Kolbe

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Abstract

Automated driving technologies offer the opportunity to substantially reduce the number of road accidents and fatalities. This requires the development of systems that can handle traffic scenarios more reliable than the human driver. The extreme number of traffic scenarios, though, causes enormous challenges in testing and proving the correct system functioning. Due to its efficiency and reproducibility, the test procedure will involve environment simulations to which the system under test is exposed. A combination of traffic, driving and Vulnerable Road User (VRU) simulation is therefore required for a holistic environment simulation. Since these simulators have different requirements and support various formats, a concept for integrated spatio-semantic road space modeling is proposed in this paper. For this purpose, the established standard OpenDRIVE, which describes road networks with their topology for submicroscopic driving simulation and HD maps, is combined with the internationally used semantic 3D city model standard CityGML. Both standards complement each other, and their combination opens the potentials of both application domains-automotive and 3D GIS. As a result, existing HD maps can now be used by model processing tools, enabling their transformation to the target formats of the respective simulators. Based on this, we demonstrate a distributed environment simulation with the submicroscopic driving simulator Virtual Test Drive and the pedestrian simulator MomenTUM at a sensitive crossing in the city of Ingolstadt. Both simulators are coupled at runtime and the architecture supports the integration of automated driving functions.

Original languageEnglish
Article number3799
JournalSustainability (Switzerland)
Volume12
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 May 2020

Keywords

  • Automated driving
  • Autonomous driving
  • CityGML
  • Driving simulation
  • Environment simulation
  • OpenDRIVE
  • Pedestrian behavior modeling
  • Road space
  • Street space
  • Testing

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