Safe Motion Planning
Year
Sep 2023 - Mar 2024
Role
Sr. Product Designer at Aurora
Team
4 engineering teams
3 internal user teams
2 product managers
Product goal
Accelerate validation of Planner behavior and enable the iteration of behavior improvements.
Our Motion Planning team's validation strategy pivoted a mere year before we were expected to launch our driverless trucks. The new and more reliable strategy was a data-forward approach, creating an urgent need to manually create thousands of labels of good trajectories to be used for test creation and evaluation.
Design deliverables
In a highly agile environment with a myriad of cross-functional partners across different orgs, we evolved an engineering proof-of-concept labeling tool into a powerhouse tool that scaled our tests from 100 to 125,000.
Alongside the improved labeling tool, we developed net-new workspaces that enabled our autonomy engineers to review results of their newly-created tests, organize their experimental tests, and record their analysis of failures.
We brought a higher standard of product development to a formerly scrappy team through strong feedback loops with our direct internal labelers. We also aligned consistent patterns across autonomy teams beyond Motion Planning with similar workflows and patterns.
Previous state
Designs
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