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Data-Driven Reachability Analysis of Pedestrians Using Behavior Modes
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Intelligent systems, Decision and Control Systems (Automatic Control).
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Intelligent systems, Decision and Control Systems (Automatic Control).ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6653-5508
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Intelligent systems, Decision and Control Systems (Automatic Control).ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6030-2869
School of Computation, Information and Technology, Technical University of Munich, Heilbronn, Germany; the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Constructor University, Bremen, Germany.
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2023 (English)In: 2023 IEEE 26th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, ITSC 2023, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , 2023, p. 4025-4031Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

In this paper, we present a data-driven approach for safely predicting the future state sets of pedestrians. Previous approaches to predicting the future state sets of pedestrians either do not provide safety guarantees or are overly conservative. Moreover, an additional challenge is the selection or identification of a model that sufficiently captures the motion of pedestrians. To address these issues, this paper introduces the idea of splitting previously collected, historical pedestrian trajectories into different behavior modes for performing data-driven reachability analysis. Through this proposed approach, we are able to use data-driven reachability analysis to capture the future state sets of pedestrians, while being less conservative and still maintaining safety guarantees. Furthermore, this approach is modular and can support different approaches for behavior splitting. To illustrate the efficacy of the approach, we implement our method with a basic behavior-splitting module and evaluate the implementation on an open-source data set of real pedestrian trajectories. In this evaluation, we find that the modal reachable sets are less conservative and more descriptive of the future state sets of the pedestrian.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , 2023. p. 4025-4031
National Category
Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-344358DOI: 10.1109/ITSC57777.2023.10422257ISI: 001178996704008Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85186502066OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-344358DiVA, id: diva2:1844362
Conference
26th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, ITSC 2023, Bilbao, Spain, Sep 24 2023 - Sep 28 2023
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Part of ISBN 9798350399462

QC 20240315

Available from: 2024-03-13 Created: 2024-03-13 Last updated: 2026-04-08Bibliographically approved
In thesis
1. Shared Situational Awareness for Connected and Automated Vehicles in Urban Scenarios
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Shared Situational Awareness for Connected and Automated Vehicles in Urban Scenarios
2026 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

A major challenge in developing connected and automated vehicles~(CAVs) for urban environments is achieving a comprehensive understanding of the surrounding traffic scene. This relies on situational awareness, defined as the ability to perceive, interpret, and anticipate the behavior of surrounding road-users, which is essential to ensure safety. In particular, unprotected road-users, such as pedestrians and cyclists, are often occluded or located in sensor blind-spots of the CAV, which remains a critical challenge. This thesis aims to improve the situational awareness of the ego-vehicle, the CAV of primary interest, in urban environments by leveraging vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication to incorporate information from connected road-users. A framework using set-based methods is developed to systematically handle uncertainties in measurements and initial conditions of detected pedestrians.

The objective is to address several key challenges that arise in real-world scenarios, including data inconsistency, data association, pedestrian motion prediction, and efficient reduction of redundant information. The thesis first proposes a shared situational awareness framework for occluded pedestrian-crossing scenario to compute an estimated set for the pedestrian. The framework is extended to handle measurements from V2X units that may be inconsistent with the ground truth of the detected pedestrian. To address scenarios involving multiple occluded pedestrians, a data association method based on intersection-over-union heuristics is introduced. Pedestrian motion prediction is further studied using both a data-driven approach and a bounded velocity–acceleration model applied to the estimated set obtained from the framework. An occlusion-aware extension is also developed to handle situations where occlusions affect both the ego-vehicle and V2X units by exploiting previously observed measurements. Finally, a method for selecting and filtering relevant information from multiple V2X units is proposed to reduce the computational load while maintaining effectiveness. The proposed methods are validated through numerical simulations and real-world experiments using Scania prototype automated vehicles.

Abstract [sv]

En stor utmaning i utvecklingen av uppkopplade och automatiserade fordon (CAV) för stadsmiljöer är att uppnå en omfattande förståelse av den omgivande trafikbilden. Detta bygger på situationsmedvetenhet, definierad som förmågan att uppfatta, tolka och förutse omgivande trafikanters beteende, vilket är avgörande för att säkerställa säkerheten. I synnerhet är oskyddade trafikanter, såsom fotgängare och cyklister, ofta blockerade eller placerade i sensorers blinda vinklar i CAV, vilket fortfarande utgör en kritisk utmaning. Denna avhandling syftar till att förbättra situationsmedvetenheten hos ego-fordonet, CAV:n av primärt intresse, i stadsmiljöer genom att utnyttja fordon-till-allt-kommunikation (V2X) för att inkorporera information från uppkopplade trafikanter. Ett ramverk som använder på mängd-baserade metoder utvecklas för att systematiskt hantera osäkerheter i mätningar och initialvillkor för upptäckta fotgängare. 

Målet är att adressera flera viktiga utmaningar från verkliga scenarier, inklusive datainkonsekvens, dataassociation, förutsägelse av fotgängarrörelser och effektiv minskning av redundant information. Avhandlingen föreslår först ett gemensamt situationsmedvetenhetsramverk för ockluderade övergångsställen för att beräkna en uppskattad mängd för fotgängaren. Ramverket utökas för att hantera mätningar från V2X-enheter som kan vara inkonsekventa med den detekterade fotgängarens verklighet. För att hantera scenarier som involverar flera ockluderade fotgängare introduceras en dataassociationsmetod baserad på snitt-över-union heuristik. Förutsägelse av fotgängarrörelser studeras vidare med hjälp av både en datadriven metod och en begränsad hastighet-accelerations-modell tillämpad på den uppskattade mängden från ramverket. En ocklusionsmedveten utökning utvecklas också för att hantera situationer där ocklusioner påverkar både ego-fordonet och V2X-enheterna genom att utnyttja tidigare mätningar. Slutligen föreslås en metod för att välja och filtrera relevant information från flera V2X-enheter för att minska beräkningsbelastningen samtidigt som effektiviteten bibehålls. Metoderna valideras genom numeriska simuleringar och verkliga experiment med Scanias prototypbaserade automatiserade fordon.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 2026. p. xvi, 135
Series
TRITA-EECS-AVL ; 2026:21
Keywords
Connected and automated vehicles; pedestrian safety; vehicle-to-everything communication; Shared situational awareness
National Category
Robotics and automation
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-379079 (URN)978-91-8106-557-2 (ISBN)
Public defence
2026-05-07, https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/63639257006, Kollegiesalen, Brinellvägen 8, Stockholm, 09:00 (English)
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Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP)
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Available from: 2026-04-10 Created: 2026-04-08 Last updated: 2026-04-20Bibliographically approved

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