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Automotive Engineering ›› 2025, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (5): 809-819.doi: 10.19562/j.chinasae.qcgc.2025.05.002

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Vehicle Trajectory Prediction with Spatial-Temporal Interaction Based on Sparse Attention

Kai Gao1,2,Xinyu Liu2,Lin Hu2(),Xiangming Huang1(),Tiefang Zou2,Peng Liu3   

  1. 1.College of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering,Hunan University,Changsha 410082
    2.College of Automotive and Mechanical Engineering,Changsha University of Science & Technology,Changsha 410114
    3.Hunan Sinoboom Intelligent Equipment Co. ,Ltd. ,Changsha 410600
  • Received:2024-08-14 Revised:2024-11-27 Online:2025-05-25 Published:2025-05-20
  • Contact: Lin Hu,Xiangming Huang E-mail:hulin@csust.edu.cn;h_xiangming@aliyun.com

Abstract:

In a mixed traffic ecosystem, accurately predicting the trajectories of surrounding vehicles is crucial for the safety of autonomous vehicles. However, existing technologies still face issues of accuracy and computational complexity in long-term prediction. A spatiotemporal interactive sparse attention model combined with intention probability is proposed in this paper, which predicts trajectories through an efficient encoder-decoder structure. The position mask matrix is first constructed to extract positional information from historical trajectories, and key features are selected using the sparse attention mechanism. The intention behavior analysis module is utilized to improve the accuracy of intention recognition. Finally, spatiotemporal features, positional features, and intention features are fused and input into the decoder, and the model is trained using a multi-task learning approach. The experimental results show that, compared to the optimal algorithm on the HighD and NGSIM datasets, the proposed model achieves a notable reduction in root mean square error (RMSE) in long-term prediction of 3 to 5 seconds, significantly enhancing prediction accuracy. In addition, the model's performance in real-world scenarios is validated through road tests, further demonstrating its application potential in complex traffic environment.

Key words: traffic engineering, trajectory prediction, sparse attention, deep learning