NVIDIA Corporation
VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT SCENARIOS AND OBSERVERS FOR AUTONOMOUS MACHINE APPLICATIONS

Abstract:

In various examples, scenarios may be defined using a declarative description--e.g., defining a behavior of interest--that the present system may convert into a procedural description for generating one or more instances and/or variations of a scenario for testing an autonomous or semi-autonomous machine in a virtual environment. The system may execute observers or evaluators for testing the performance and accuracy of the machine and may compute coverage of various elements based on the generated virtual scenarios, and may feed the results back to the system to generate additional instances and/or variations where the coverage or accuracy is below a desired level. As a result, the system may include an end-to-end framework for generating scenarios in virtual environments, testing and validating the scenarios themselves, and/or testing and validating the underlying autonomous or semi-autonomous systems of the machine--all based on a declarative description.