commonroad-drivability-checker 2021.4.1

CommonRoad Drivability Checker

Collision avoidance, kinematic feasibility, and road-compliance must be validated to ensure the drivability of planned motions for autonomous vehicles. The CommonRoad Drivability Checker toolbox unifies these checks in order to simplify the development and validation of motion planning algorithms. It is compatible with the CommonRoad benchmark suite, which additionally facilitates and drastically reduces the effort of the development of motion planning algorithms.

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Installation

To install the Python package of the drivability checker, please run:

pip install commonroad-drivability-checker

Documentation

A full documentation as well as tutorials to get started with the tool can be found on our toolpage.

Publication

CommonRoad Drivability Checker: Simplifying the Development and Validation of Motion Planning Algorithms

Christian Pek, Vitaliy Rusinov, Stefanie Manzinger, Murat Can Üste, and Matthias Althoff

Abstract— Collision avoidance, kinematic feasibility, and road-compliance must be validated to ensure the drivability of planned motions for autonomous vehicles. Although these tasks are highly repetitive, computationally efficient toolboxes are still unavailable. The CommonRoad Drivability Checker—an open-source toolbox—unifies these mentioned checks. It is compatible with the CommonRoad benchmark suite, which additionally facilitates the development of motion planners. Our toolbox drastically reduces the effort of developing and validating motion planning algorithms. Numerical experiments show that our toolbox is real-time capable and can be used in real test vehicles.

Fulltext is available on mediaTUM.

Bibtex:

@inproceedings{ PekIV20.pdf,
	author = "Christian Pek, Vitaliy Rusinov, Stefanie Manzinger, Murat Can Üste, and Matthias Althoff",
	title = "CommonRoad Drivability Checker: Simplifying the Development and Validation of Motion Planning Algorithms",
	pages = "1-8",
	booktitle = "Proc. of the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium",
	year = "2020",
	abstract = "Collision avoidance, kinematic feasibility, and road-compliance must be validated to ensure the drivability of planned motions for autonomous vehicles. Although these tasks are highly repetitive, computationally efficient toolboxes are still unavailable. The CommonRoad Drivability Checker— an open-source toolbox—unifies these mentioned checks. It is compatible with the CommonRoad benchmark suite, which additionally facilitates the development of motion planners. Our toolbox drastically reduces the effort of developing and validating motion planning algorithms. Numerical experiments show that our toolbox is real-time capable and can be used in real test vehicles."
}

Licensing note

Please note, that the drivability checker contains a dependency to the third party library Triangle which states:

Please note that although Triangle is freely available, it is copyrighted by the author and may 
not be sold or included in commercial products without a license.

Please be aware of that when using the drivability checker in your projects. See the original licensing conditions of the Triangle library as well as the Triangle website for details.