BigRoad: Scaling road data acquisition for dependable self-driving

Luyang Liu, Hongyu Li, Jian Liu, Cagdas Karatas, Yan Wang, Marco Gruteser, Yingying Chen, Richard P. Martin

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Abstract

Advanced driver assistance systems and, in particular automated driving offers an unprecedented opportunity to transform the safety, efficiency, and comfort of road travel. Developing such safety technologies requires an understanding of not just common highway and city traffic situations but also a plethora of widely different unusual events (e.g., object on the road way and pedestrian crossing highway, etc.). While each such event may be rare, in aggregate they represent a significant risk that technology must address to develop truly dependable automated driving and traffic safety technologies. By developing technology to scale road data acquisition to a large number of vehicles, this paper introduces a low-cost yet reliable solution, BigRoad, that can derive internal driver inputs (i.e., steering wheel angles, driving speed and acceleration) and external perceptions of road environments (i.e., road conditions and front-view video) using a smartphone and an IMU mounted in a vehicle. We evaluate the accuracy of collected internal and external data using over 140 real-driving trips collected in a 3-month time period. Results show that BigRoad can accurately estimate the steering wheel angle with 0:69ffi median error, and derive the vehicle speed with 0:65 km/h deviation. The system is also able to determine binary road conditions with 95% accuracy by capturing a small number of brakes. We further validate the usability of BigRoad by pushing the collected video feed and steering wheel angle to a deep neural network steering wheel angle predictor, showing the potential of massive data acquisition for training self-driving system using BigRoad.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationMobiSys 2017 - Proceedings of the 15th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages371-384
Number of pages14
ISBN (Electronic)9781450349284
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 16 2017
Event15th ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services, MobiSys 2017 - Niagara Falls, United States
Duration: Jun 19 2017Jun 23 2017

Publication series

NameMobiSys 2017 - Proceedings of the 15th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services

Other

Other15th ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services, MobiSys 2017
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityNiagara Falls
Period6/19/176/23/17

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Information Systems
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Software
  • Hardware and Architecture

Keywords

  • IMU
  • Road data acquisition
  • Self-driving
  • Smartphone

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