Planning-impacted prediction evaluation

A non-transitory machine-readable medium having instructions stored therein, which when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:

• predict, at an autonomous driving simulation platform, a plurality of trajectories of a plurality of obstacles by a prediction module of an autonomous driving vehicle (ADV);
• plan, at the autonomous driving simulation platform, a trajectory of the ADV by a planning module of the ADV based on the plurality of trajectories of the plurality of obstacles;
• determine, at the autonomous driving simulation platform, a performance of the planning module based on one or more evaluation metrics regarding the trajectory of the ADV;
• and
• evaluate a performance of the prediction module based on the performance of the planning module to improve the performance of the prediction module to deploy the prediction module to the ADV to drive autonomously.

A data processing system, comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a memory coupled to the processor to store instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:
• predict, at an autonomous driving simulation platform, a plurality of trajectories of a plurality of obstacles by a prediction module of an autonomous driving vehicle (ADV);
• plan, at the autonomous driving simulation platform, a trajectory of the ADV by a planning module of the ADV based on the plurality of trajectories of the plurality of obstacles;
• determine, at the autonomous driving simulation platform, a performance of the planning module based on one or more evaluation metrics regarding the trajectory of the ADV;
• and
• evaluate a performance of the prediction module based on the performance of the planning module to improve the performance of the prediction module to deploy the prediction module to the ADV to drive autonomously.