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Explainable and Advisable Learning for Self-driving Vehicles
Deep neural perception and control networks are likely to be a key component of self-driving vehicles. These models need to be explainable - they should provide easy-to-interpret rationales for their behavior - so that passengers, insurance companies, law enforcement, developers, etc., can understand what triggered a particular behavior. Explanations may be triggered by the neural controller, namely introspective explanations, or informed by the neural controller's output, namely rationalizations. Our work has focused on the challenge of generating introspective explanations of deep models for self-driving vehicles. In Chapter 3, we begin by exploring the use of visual explanations. These explanations take the form of real-time highlighted regions of an image that causally influence the network's output (steering control). In the first stage, we use a visual attention model to train a convolution network end-to-end from images to steering angle. The attention model highlights image regions that potentially influence the network's output. Some of these are true influences, but some are spurious. We then apply a causal filtering step to determine which input regions actually influence the output. This produces more succinct visual explanations and more accurately exposes the network's behavior. In Chapter 4, we add an attention-based video-to-text model to produce textual explanations of model actions, e.g. "the car slows down because the road is wet". The attention maps of controller and explanation model are aligned so that explanations are grounded in the parts of the scene that mattered to the controller. We explore two approaches to attention alignment, strong- and weak-alignment. These explainable systems represent an externalization of tacit knowledge. The network's opaque reasoning is simplified to a situation-specific dependence on a visible object in the image. This makes them brittle and potentially unsafe in situations that do not match training data. In Chapter 5, we propose to address this issue by augmenting training data with natural language advice from a human. Advice includes guidance about what to do and where to attend. We present the first step toward advice-giving, where we train an end-to-end vehicle controller that accepts advice. The controller adapts the way it attends to the scene (visual attention) and the control (steering and speed). Further, in Chapter 6, we propose a new approach that learns vehicle control with the help of long-term (global) human advice. Specifically, our system learns to summarize its visual observations in natural language, predict an appropriate action response (e.g. "I see a pedestrian crossing, so I stop"), and predict the controls, accordingly
Interpretable Motion Planner for Urban Driving via Hierarchical Imitation Learning
Learning-based approaches have achieved remarkable performance in the domain
of autonomous driving. Leveraging the impressive ability of neural networks and
large amounts of human driving data, complex patterns and rules of driving
behavior can be encoded as a model to benefit the autonomous driving system.
Besides, an increasing number of data-driven works have been studied in the
decision-making and motion planning module. However, the reliability and the
stability of the neural network is still full of uncertainty. In this paper, we
introduce a hierarchical planning architecture including a high-level
grid-based behavior planner and a low-level trajectory planner, which is highly
interpretable and controllable. As the high-level planner is responsible for
finding a consistent route, the low-level planner generates a feasible
trajectory. We evaluate our method both in closed-loop simulation and real
world driving, and demonstrate the neural network planner has outstanding
performance in complex urban autonomous driving scenarios.Comment: 6 pages, 8 figures, accepted by IROS202
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