%0 Report %D 2020 %T Modeling Human Car-Following Behavior from Demonstration with Recurrent Neural Networks %A Iris Jones %A Megan Walter %E Rahul Bhadani %Y Jonathan Sprinkle %K car-following models %K driving behavior %K recurrent neural network %K simulation %K trajectory prediction %X

The validity of simulation testing for autonomous vehicles depends on the ability to accurately simulate human driving behavior. This project seeks to train a model on an individual’s driving data, and to test the ability of the model to predict trajectories that replicate the driver’s style by using the model in a realistic simulated environment. Specifically, we deployed Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) modeling techniques to create a black-box model of an individual’s driving behavior. We use our RNN-trained model to simulate a human-driven vehicle in the Robot Operating System (ROS) based CAT Vehicle simulator for autonomous vehicle validation. We hope this work is a step to improve testing environments for validating human behavior replicating car-following models and thereby improve testing environments for autonomous vehicles in general.

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