MAP: End-to-End Autonomous Driving with Map-Assisted Planning
This work addresses trajectory planning for autonomous driving systems by explicitly leveraging semantic map features, representing an incremental improvement in structure design for end-to-end frameworks.
The paper tackles the underutilization of online mapping in end-to-end autonomous driving by proposing MAP, a map-assisted trajectory planning framework that integrates segmentation-based map features and ego status, resulting in a 16.6% reduction in L2 displacement error, 56.2% reduction in off-road rate, and 44.5% improvement in overall score compared to a baseline.
In recent years, end-to-end autonomous driving has attracted increasing attention for its ability to jointly model perception, prediction, and planning within a unified framework. However, most existing approaches underutilize the online mapping module, leaving its potential to enhance trajectory planning largely untapped. This paper proposes MAP (Map-Assisted Planning), a novel map-assisted end-to-end trajectory planning framework. MAP explicitly integrates segmentation-based map features and the current ego status through a Plan-enhancing Online Mapping module, an Ego-status-guided Planning module, and a Weight Adapter based on current ego status. Experiments conducted on the DAIR-V2X-seq-SPD dataset demonstrate that the proposed method achieves a 16.6% reduction in L2 displacement error, a 56.2% reduction in off-road rate, and a 44.5% improvement in overall score compared to the UniV2X baseline, even without post-processing. Furthermore, it achieves top ranking in Track 2 of the End-to-End Autonomous Driving through V2X Cooperation Challenge of MEIS Workshop @CVPR2025, outperforming the second-best model by 39.5% in terms of overall score. These results highlight the effectiveness of explicitly leveraging semantic map features in planning and suggest new directions for improving structure design in end-to-end autonomous driving systems. Our code is available at https://gitee.com/kymkym/map.git