LCSim: A Large-Scale Controllable Traffic Simulator

1Tsinghua University, 2SenseAuto

Abstract

With the rapid development of urban transportation and the continuous advancement in autonomous vehicles, the demand for safely and efficiently testing autonomous driving and traffic optimization algorithms arises, which needs accurate modeling of large-scale urban traffic scenarios. Existing traffic simulation systems encounter two significant limitations. Firstly, they often rely on open-source datasets or manually crafted maps, constraining the scale of simulations. Secondly, vehicle models within these systems tend to be either oversimplified or lack controllability, compromising the authenticity and diversity of the simulations. In this paper, we propose LCSim, a large-scale controllable traffic simulator. LCSim provides map tools for constructing unified high-definition map (HD map) descriptions from open-source datasets including Waymo and Argoverse or publicly available data sources like OpenStreetMap to scale up the simulation scenarios. Also, we integrate diffusion-based traffic simulation into the simulator for realistic and controllable microscopic traffic flow modeling. By leveraging these features, LCSim provides realistic and diverse virtual traffic environments.

Basic architecture of LCSim

Teaser image

Diffusion denoising process of vehicle action sequences generation.

BibTeX

@misc{zhang2024lcsimlargescalecontrollabletraffic,
    title={LCSim: A Large-Scale Controllable Traffic Simulator}, 
    author={Yuheng Zhang and Tianjian Ouyang and Fudan Yu and Cong Ma and Lei Qiao and Wei Wu and Jian Yuan and Yong Li},
    year={2024},
    eprint={2406.19781},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    primaryClass={cs.RO},
    url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.19781},
}