Simulated vehicle position errors in driving simulations

Abstract

Techniques are described herein for determining simulated vehicle positional errors and correlating the positional errors with vehicle features. Such techniques may include receiving log data comprising trajectories and position data for a real vehicle, and executing a log-based simulated vehicle based on the log data. A simulated vehicle may be controlled to follow a simulation trajectory in a simulated environment based on the trajectory of the real vehicle. A simulation system may determine a difference between the positions of the simulated vehicle and corresponding positions of the real vehicle in the real environment. The techniques may further include determining a vehicle state features correlated to the lateral and/or longitudinal position errors of the simulated vehicle, and determining, based on the vehicle state features, position error distributions and/or models that can be used to control subsequent driving simulations.