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The Waymo Open Sim Agents Challenge

Authors

  • Nico Montali

  • John Lambert

  • Paul Mougin

  • Alex Kuefler

  • Nick Rhinehart

  • Michelle Li

  • Cole Gulino

  • Tristan Emrich

  • Zoey Yang

  • Shimon Whiteson

  • Brandyn White

  • Dragomir Anguelov

    Abstract

    In this work, we define the Waymo Open Sim Agents Challenge (WOSAC). Simulation with realistic, interactive agents represents a key task for autonomous vehicle software development. WOSAC is the first public challenge to tackle this task and propose corresponding metrics. The goal of the challenge is to stimulate the design of realistic simulators that can be used to evaluate and train a behavior model for autonomous driving. We outline our evaluation methodology and present preliminary results for a number of different baseline simulation agent methods.