Print Email Facebook Twitter Scenario Parameter Generation Method and Scenario Representativeness Metric for Scenario-Based Assessment of Automated Vehicles Title Scenario Parameter Generation Method and Scenario Representativeness Metric for Scenario-Based Assessment of Automated Vehicles Author de Gelder, E. (TU Delft Team Bart De Schutter; TNO) Hof, Jasper (Radboud University Medical Center) Cator, Eric (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen) Paardekooper, Jan Pieter (TNO; Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen) Camp, Olaf Op den (TNO) Ploeg, Jeroen (Eindhoven University of Technology) De Schutter, B.H.K. (TU Delft Team Bart De Schutter) Date 2022 Abstract The development of assessment methods for the performance of Automated Vehicles (AVs) is essential to enable the deployment of automated driving technologies, due to the complex operational domain of AVs. One candidate is scenario-based assessment, in which test cases are derived from real-world road traffic scenarios obtained from driving data. Because of the high variety of the possible scenarios, using only observed scenarios for the assessment is not sufficient. Therefore, methods for generating additional scenarios are necessary. Our contribution is twofold. First, we propose a method to determine the parameters that describe the scenarios to a sufficient degree while relying less on strong assumptions on the parameters that characterize the scenarios. By estimating the probability density function (pdf) of these parameters, realistic parameter values can be generated. Second, we present the Scenario Representativeness (SR) metric based on the Wasserstein distance, which quantifies to what extent the scenarios with the generated parameter values are representative of real-world scenarios while covering the actual variety found in the real-world scenarios. A comparison of our proposed method with methods relying on assumptions of the scenario parameterization and pdf estimation shows that the proposed method can automatically determine the optimal scenario parameterization and pdf estimation. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that our sr metric can be used to choose the (number of) parameters that best describe a scenario. The presented method is promising, because the parameterization and pdf estimation can directly be applied to already available importance sampling strategies for accelerating the evaluation of AVs. Subject automatic testingautonomous vehiclesestimationIntelligent vehiclesMeasurementMonte Carlo methodsperformance evaluationprobability density functionroadssafetytime series analysisvehicle safety To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:e3aa055c-eda3-4bbc-be9d-5bb81adf686e DOI https://doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2022.3154774 Embargo date 2023-07-01 ISSN 1524-9050 Source IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 23 (10), 18794-18807 Bibliographical note Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public. Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2022 E. de Gelder, Jasper Hof, Eric Cator, Jan Pieter Paardekooper, Olaf Op den Camp, Jeroen Ploeg, B.H.K. De Schutter Files PDF Scenario_Parameter_Genera ... hicles.pdf 3.3 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:e3aa055c-eda3-4bbc-be9d-5bb81adf686e/datastream/OBJ/view