Journal
IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL
Volume 22, Issue 21, Pages 21009-21023Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2022.3204836
Keywords
Laser radar; Sensors; Three-dimensional displays; Point cloud compression; Robot sensing systems; Optimization; Optimal control; Entropy; information theory; light detection and ranging (LiDAR); mounting placement; performance analysis
Funding
- National Key Research and Development Program [2021YFB2501204]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [52172380]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [300102242711]
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Intelligent vehicle infrastructure cooperative systems can address the limited perception range of autonomous vehicles by real-time perception of road traffic using roadside mounted sensors. In this study, an information-theoretic LiDAR mounting placement evaluation method is proposed, which quantifies the perception performance of LiDAR by introducing a metric based on per voxel point clouds. Experimental results show that the proposed method is simple, efficient, and consistent with existing algorithms.
Intelligent vehicle infrastructure cooperative systems can essentially address the bottleneck of the limited perception range of autonomous vehicles. This is achieved by the real-time perception of road traffic using roadside mounted sensors, which is receiving increasing attention. Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) has progressively been deployed on the roadside due to its advantage of remaining unaffected by lights and the capability to obtain 3-D information about traffic participants. However, a practical evaluation criterion is currently lacking for assessing the merits of roadside LiDAR placement. In this study, we propose an information-theoretic LiDAR mounting placement evaluation method, which simplifies the complex problem of LiDAR mounting placement to a simple parameter calculation problem. We characterize the amount of information detected by LiDAR in the region of interest (ROI) by introducing the per voxel point clouds' metric. The resulting metric, named the maximum density gain, quantifies the effect of LiDAR mounting placements on perception performance. A bidirectional eight-lane traffic scenario is constructed in Unity3D, and datasets of simulated LiDARs are collected under two traffic conditions: with and without obstruction. The Pointpillars is used to test the collected dataset, which is a point cloud-based 3-D object detection algorithm. The results of Pointpillars and our proposed method are compared to test the validity of the proposed method. The experimental results show that our proposed method is compatible with the outcomes of Pointpillars while being simpler and computationally efficient. The proposed LiDAR mounting placement evaluation method can offer a reliable calculation reference for the mounting placement of roadside LiDARs.
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