OVPD: A Virtual-Physical Fusion Testing Dataset of OnSite Auton-omous Driving Challenge

arXiv cs.RO / 4/23/2026

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Key Points

  • The paper introduces OVPD, a virtual-physical fusion testing dataset created from the 2025 OnSite Autonomous Driving Challenge to better support replayable and diagnosable autonomous-driving evaluation.
  • OVPD is designed around real-vehicle-in-the-loop testing, combining virtual background traffic with vehicle-and-infrastructure perception to create controllable closed-loop scenarios on a proving ground.
  • The dataset includes 20 clips from 20 teams built on a chain of 15 atomic scenarios, providing nearly 3 hours of multi-modal data such as trajectories, vehicle states, control commands, and digital-twin-generated surround-view observations.
  • OVPD targets validation of long-tail planning and decision-making, supports both open-loop and platform-enabled closed-loop evaluations, and enables comprehensive scoring for safety, efficiency, comfort, rule compliance, and traffic impact.
  • The dataset is released publicly via Hugging Face, providing material for failure diagnosis and iterative algorithm improvement.

Abstract

The rapid iteration of autonomous driving algorithms has created a growing demand for high-fidelity, replayable, and diagnosable testing data. However, many public datasets lack real vehicle dynamics feedback and closed-loop interaction with surrounding traffic and road infrastructure, limiting their ability to reflect deployment readiness. To address this gap, we present OVPD (OnSite Virtual-Physical Dataset), a virtual-physical fusion testing dataset released from the 2025 OnSite Autonomous Driving Challenge. Centered on real-vehicle-in-the-loop testing, OVPD integrates virtual background traffic with vehicle-infrastructure perception to build controllable and interactive closed-loop test environments on a proving ground. The dataset contains 20 testing clips from 20 teams over a scenario chain of 15 atomic scenarios, totaling nearly 3 hours of multi-modal data, including vehicle trajectories and states, control commands, and digital-twin-rendered surround-view observations. OVPD supports long-tail planning and decision-making validation, open-loop or platform-enabled closed-loop evaluation, and comprehensive assessment across safety, efficiency, comfort, rule compliance, and traffic impact, providing actionable evidence for failure diagnosis and iterative improvement. The dataset is available via: https://huggingface.co/datasets/Yuhang253820/Onsite_OPVD