Abstract
Today's software stacks for autonomous vehicles rely on HD maps to enable sufficient localization, accurate path planning, and reliable motion prediction. Recent developments have resulted in pipelines for the automated generation of HD maps to reduce manual efforts for creating and updating these HD maps. We present FlexMap Fusion, a methodology to automatically update and enhance existing HD vector maps using OpenStreetMap. Our approach is designed to enable the use of HD maps created from LiDAR and camera data within Autoware. The pipeline provides different functionalities: It provides the possibility to georeference both the point cloud map and the vector map using an RTK-corrected GNSS signal. Moreover, missing semantic attributes can be conflated from OpenStreetMap into the vector map. Differences between the HD map and OpenStreetMap are visualized for manual refinement by the user. In general, our findings indicate that our approach leads to reduced human labor during HD map generation, increases the scalability of the mapping pipeline, and improves the completeness and usability of the maps. The methodological choices may have resulted in limitations that arise especially at complex street structures, e.g., traffic islands. Therefore, more research is necessary to create efficient preprocessing algorithms and advancements in the dynamic adjustment of matching parameters. In order to build upon our work, our source code is available at this https URL.
Abstract (translated)
今天的自动驾驶软件栈依赖HD地图来实现足够的局部定位、精确路径规划和可靠的运动预测。最近的发展使得自动化生成HD地图的流程减少了对创建和更新这些HD地图的手动努力。我们提出了FlexMap Fusion，一种利用OpenStreetMap自动更新和增强现有HD矢量地图的方法。我们的方法旨在使使用来自激光雷达和相机数据的HD地图在Autoware中得到更广泛的应用。管道提供了不同的功能：它提供了使用RTK校正的GNSS信号将点云地图和矢量地图进行几何参考的可能性。此外，缺失的语义属性可以从OpenStreetMap中 conflat到矢量地图中。用户可以通过手动细化来使用户查看HD地图和OpenStreetMap之间的差异。总的来说，我们的研究结果表明，我们的方法在HD地图生成过程中减少了人类劳动，提高了地图映射管道的可扩展性，并提高了地图的完整性和可用性。方法论选择可能导致在复杂街道结构（如交通岛屿）上出现限制。因此，需要进行更多的研究来创建高效的预处理算法和改进动态调整匹配参数。为了基于我们的工作，我们的源代码可在此链接处访问：https://www.example.com/flexmap-fusion。
URL
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10879
