This paper proposes DriViDOC: a framework for Driving from Vision through Differentiable Optimal Control, and its application to learn autonomous driving controllers from human demonstrations. DriViDOC combines the automatic inference of relevant features from camera frames with the properties of nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC), such as constraint satisfaction. Our approach leverages the differentiability of parametric NMPC, allowing for end-to-end learning of the driving model from images to control. The model is trained on an offline dataset comprising various human demonstrations collected on a motion-base driving simulator. During online testing, the model demonstrates successful imitation of different driving styles, and the interpreted NMPC parameters provide insights into the achievement of specific driving behaviors. Our experimental results show that DriViDOC outperforms other methods involving NMPC and neural networks, exhibiting an average improvement of 20% in imitation scores.
@article{arxiv.2403.15102,
title = {Driving from Vision through Differentiable Optimal Control},
author = {Flavia Sofia Acerbo and Jan Swevers and Tinne Tuytelaars and Tong Duy Son},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.15102},
year = {2024}
}
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This work has been accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2024). Accompanying video available at: https://youtu.be/ENHhphpbPLs