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.
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