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End-to-End Driving Via Conditional Imitation Learning

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Codevilla, Felipe, Muller, Matthias, Lopez, Antonio, Koltun, Vladlen, Dosovitskiy, Alexey·2018·2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

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Deep networks trained on demonstrations of human driving have learned to follow roads and avoid obstacles. However, driving policies trained via imitation learning cannot be controlled at test time. A vehicle trained end-to-end to imitate an expert cannot be guided to take a specific turn at an upcoming intersection. This limits the utility of such systems. We propose to condition imitation learning on high-level command input. At test time, the learned driving policy functions as a chauffeur that handles sensorimotor coordination but continues to respond to navigational commands. We evaluate different architectures for conditional imitation learning in vision-based driving. We conduct experiments in realistic three-dimensional simulations of urban driving and on a 1/5 scale robotic truck that is trained to drive in a residential area. Both systems drive based on visual input yet remain responsive to high-level navigational commands.

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  • IL using real-world demonstration data has become one of the most popular and robust control algorithms in research and industry.

    “In this era, IL using real-world demonstration data has become one of the most popular and robust control algorithms in research and industry [59,60].”

    From Data-Driven Robotic Manipulation of Cloth-like Deformable Objects: The Present, Challenges and Future Prospects (2023) · cites this paper as [60]

    The Introduction (p. 1) describes imitation learning from human driving demonstrations as a promising approach receiving renewed interest, and Related Work (p. 2) lists applications across several tasks. The paper does not establish that it is among the most popular control algorithms in research and industry; Training Data Distribution (p. 4) also cautions that policies trained only on natural demonstrations are typically unstable, rather than broadly robust. (LLM, conf=0.86)

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  1. [5][5] A. Broad, J. Arkin, N. Ratliff, T. Howard, and B. Argall. Realtime natural language corrections for assistive robotic manipulators. International Journal of Robotics Research , 2017. -
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Authors
Codevilla, F., Muller, M., Lopez, A., Koltun, V., & Dosovitskiy, A.
Affiliations
  • Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ES)
  • King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (SA)
  • Intel (United States) (US)
Venue
2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Publisher
IEEE
Published
2018-05
Pages
4693-4700
ISSN
1050-4729 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2760878839
Cited by
129
References
41
Citations by year
2025: 3 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 11 · 2022: 18 · 2021: 29 · 2020: 22 · 2019: 23 · 2018: 10 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 1
FWCI
21.53
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation/Proceedings (publishedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
  • King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Repository (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology) (submittedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Funders
  • Centres de Recerca de Catalunya
  • Generalitat de Catalunya
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Automotive Engineering › Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Reinforcement Learning in Robotics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
Keywords
end-to-end driving, vision-based driving, autonomous vehicles, sensorimotor coordination

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