Results of the 2024 CommonRoad Motion Planning Competition for Autonomous Vehicles

TL;DR

The paper reports on the 2024 CommonRoad Motion Planning Competition, providing a standardized benchmarking framework for evaluating autonomous vehicle motion planning algorithms across diverse traffic scenarios and performance metrics.

Contribution

It introduces the setup and results of the 2024 competition, establishing a reproducible benchmark suite for comparing motion planning approaches in autonomous driving.

Findings

Comparison of high-performing planners from 2023 and 2024

Benchmark scenarios include highway and urban environments

Evaluation along efficiency, safety, comfort, and traffic rule compliance

Abstract

Over the past decade, a wide range of motion planning approaches for autonomous vehicles has been developed to handle increasingly complex traffic scenarios. However, these approaches are rarely compared on standardized benchmarks, limiting the assessment of relative strengths and weaknesses. To address this gap, we present the setup and results of the 4th CommonRoad Motion Planning Competition held in 2024, conducted using the CommonRoad benchmark suite. This annual competition provides an open-source and reproducible framework for benchmarking motion planning algorithms. The benchmark scenarios span highway and urban environments with diverse traffic participants, including passenger cars, buses, and bicycles. Planner performance is evaluated along four dimensions: efficiency, safety, comfort, and compliance with selected traffic rules. This report introduces the competition format and provides a comparison of representative high-performing planners from the 2023 and 2024 editions.