DeepIPCv2: LiDAR-powered Robust Environmental Perception and Navigational Control for Autonomous Vehicle
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We propose DeepIPCv2, an end-to-end autonomous driving framework that integrates LiDAR-based environmental perception with command-specific control learning. Unlike prior camera-reliant models, DeepIPCv2 employs point cloud segmentation and multi-view projection to construct robust scene representations. These features are fused and decoded through a combination of gated recurrent units, command-specific multi-layer perceptrons, and PID controllers to estimate both waypoints and navigational control commands. This design enhances maneuverability and addresses action imbalance in driving datasets. To validate the model, we constructed a dataset covering diverse illumination conditions and conducted ablation studies and comparative tests against recent methods, including TransFuser. Results demonstrate that DeepIPCv2 achieves the lowest total metric error and the fewest driving interventions, highlighting both its robustness to illumination changes and its improved control accuracy. By releasing the codes at https://github.com/oskarnatan/DeepIPCv2 later, we aim to support reproducibility and future advancements in end-to-end autonomous driving research.