DiffuSearch:拡散と行動空間での整合した目的関数によるハイブリッド軌道計画の利点
DiffuSearch: How Hybrid Trajectory Planning Benefits from Aligned Objectives in Diffusion and Action Space
自動運転の軌道計画において、拡散モデルとモンテカルロ木探索を統合したハイブリッドプランナーを提案し、共通の運転目的関数を用いて生成と洗練を一貫させ、衝突回避と快適性を向上させた。
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著者: Steffen Hagedorn, Aron Distelzweig, Alexandru P. Condurache
分類: cs.RO, cs.AI
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In trajectory planning for autonomous driving, hybrid planning architectures are often realized as a collection of disparate modules, each with its own objectives. This lack of a unifying principle can lead to inconsistencies between the initial and refined trajectory, resulting in suboptimal behavior. We address this by introducing DiffuSearch, a novel hybrid planner that uses a unified set of objectives across generation and refinement. Our model encourages all components to follow the same shared driving goals: collision avoidance, drivable area compliance, comfort, and progress. DiffuSearch employs a two-stage architecture. First, a guided diffusion model generates a scene-consistent, joint trajectory prediction, using our driving objectives as differentiable guidance functions to implicitly steer the denoising process. Second, a Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) in a discretized action space performs an explicit, local refinement of this proposal, leveraging the same driving objectives as its reward function. This synergistic design leverages the diffusion model's strength in finding scene-consistent solutions combined with the explainable, constraint-aware refinement of MCTS. Experiments on nuPlan and interPlan reactive closed-loop benchmarks demonstrate that DiffuSearch achieves strong and often state-of-the-art performance, substantially reducing collisions and improving comfort, particularly in complex, interactive scenarios. Our ablation studies indicate that MCTS refinement is the main mechanism behind the gains, while sharing objectives between implicit guidance and explicit search provides further consistent improvements.