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This research advances autonomous driving safety by integrating physics-based vehicle dynamics with rigorous uncertainty quantification, addressing the gap between motion variable variability and trajectory-space predictions. The proposed framework successfully propagates both aleatoric and epistemic uncertainties through dynamic models while ensuring conformal calibration for reliable confidence intervals.
Uncertainty-Aware Optimization for Physics-Aware Highway Trajectory Prediction
arXiv:2610.11580v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate trajectory forecasting and well-defined predictive uncertainty are crucial for reliable, safety-critical applications such as autonomous driving. Most trajectory prediction approaches provide point estimates only, while uncertainty-aware approaches typically quantify uncertainty only in the trajectory space. In physics-aware approaches, uncertainty in the predicted motion variables should be explicitly modeled and propagated through the vehicle dynamics. Otherwise, the resulting trajectory-space uncertainty may not fully reflect the variability introduced by the underlying motion prediction. Therefore, in this work, uncertainty-aware extensions of X-TRACK (X-TRACK-DE and X-TRACK-MCD), a physics-aware trajectory prediction framework, are proposed. The proposed framework predicts future vehicle motion variables and models both aleatoric and epistemic uncertainties by propagating motion space uncertainty to trajectory space. Additionally, conformal prediction is applied to the trajectory space predictive covariance to construct uncertainty regions targeting a desired marginal coverage level. Evaluation on the highD dataset shows that X-TRACK-DE improves trajectory prediction accuracy over the deterministic baseline, while both uncertainty-aware variants provide predictive uncertainty that can be conformally calibrated to the desired marginal coverage level.
Abstract:Accurate trajectory forecasting and well-defined predictive uncertainty are crucial for reliable, safety-critical applications such as autonomous driving. Most trajectory prediction approaches provide point estimates only, while uncertainty-aware approaches typically quantify uncertainty only in the trajectory space. In physics-aware approaches, uncertainty in the predicted motion variables should be explicitly modeled and propagated through the vehicle dynamics. Otherwise, the resulting trajectory-space uncertainty may not fully reflect the variability introduced by the underlying motion prediction. Therefore, in this work, uncertainty-aware extensions of X-TRACK (X-TRACK-DE and X-TRACK-MCD), a physics-aware trajectory prediction framework, are proposed. The proposed framework predicts future vehicle motion variables and models both aleatoric and epistemic uncertainties by propagating motion space uncertainty to trajectory space. Additionally, conformal prediction is applied to the trajectory space predictive covariance to construct uncertainty regions targeting a desired marginal coverage level. Evaluation on the highD dataset shows that X-TRACK-DE improves trajectory prediction accuracy over the deterministic baseline, while both uncertainty-aware variants provide predictive uncertainty that can be conformally calibrated to the desired marginal coverage level.
Machine Learning (cs.LG)
arXiv:2610.11580 [cs.LG]
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