Using Time-to-React based on Naturalistic Traffic Object Behavior for Scenario-Based Risk Assessment of Automated Driving

Sebastian Wagner, Korbinian Groh, Thomas Kuhbeck, Michael Dörfel, Alois Knoll

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Abstract

The steady improvement of advanced driving assistance systems (ADAS) and the leap towards automated driving (AD) require novel methods for assessing the safety of those, which is a major subject for current research. Different proposals cope with the massive testing effort to assure the safety of such systems. These proposals include virtualization of testing, usage of stochastic methods and reduction of the necessary real world driving tests. Despite these different approaches, they all rely on the same basis: The behavior assessment of the vehicle under test, which results in a measurement of risk. This paper presents a novel approach to measure the criticality of a given driving scenario fitted on the requirements of testing. A Monte-Carlo simulation, which uses the input of a motion prediction model as variation parameters, determines the possible evolutions of a scenario at every time step. The distributions of these parameters have been fitted to data obtained by a large-scale field tests. These evolutions are then analyzed individually by considering the Time-To-React (TTR) measure. Finally a single value of accident risk between 0 and 1 can be assigned to the scenario.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2018 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, IV 2018
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages1521-1528
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9781538644522
DOIs
StatePublished - 18 Oct 2018
Event2018 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, IV 2018 - Changshu, Suzhou, China
Duration: 26 Sep 201830 Sep 2018

Publication series

NameIEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, Proceedings
Volume2018-June

Conference

Conference2018 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, IV 2018
Country/TerritoryChina
CityChangshu, Suzhou
Period26/09/1830/09/18

Keywords

  • Autonomous vehicles
  • Performance analysis
  • Risk analysis
  • Vehicle safety

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