Overview
As a promising topic in cognitive robotics, neuro-symbolic modeling integrates symbolic reasoning and neural
representation altogether. However,
previous neuro-symbolic models usually wire their structures and the connections manually, making the underlying
parameters sub-optimal. In this work,
we propose the Neuro-Symbolic Program Search (NSPS) to improve the autonomous driving system design. NSPS is a
novel
automated search method
that synthesizes the Neuro-Symbolic Programs. It can produce robust and expressive Neuro-Symbolic Programs and
automatically tune the hyper-parameters.
We validate NSPS in the CARLA driving simulation environment. The resulting
Neuro-Symbolic Decision Programs successfully handle multiple traffic scenarios. Compared with previous
neural-network-based driving and rule-based methods, our neuro-symbolic driving pipeline achieves more stable and
safer
behaviors in complex driving scenarios while maintaining an interpretable symbolic
decision-making process.
BibTeX
@InProceedings{Sun_2020_corl,
author={Sun, Jiankai and Sun, Hao and Han, Tian and Zhou, Bolei},
title={Neuro-Symbolic Program Search for Autonomous Driving Decision Module Design},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2020}
}
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