actorProfiles

Physical and radar characteristics of actors in driving scenario

Syntax

profiles = actorProfiles(scenario)

Description

profiles = actorProfiles(scenario) returns the physical and radar characteristics, profiles, for all actors in a driving scenario, scenario. Actors include Actor objects, Vehicle objects and Barrier segments, which you can create using the actor, vehicle and barrier functions, respectively.

You can use actor profiles as inputs to radar, vision, and lidar sensors, such as drivingRadarDataGenerator, visionDetectionGenerator, lidarPointCloudGenerator and ultrasonicDetectionGenerator objects.

Examples

Create Driving Scenario with Multiple Actors and Roads

Create a driving scenario containing a curved road, two straight roads, and two actors: a car and a bicycle. Both actors move along the road for 60 seconds.

Create the driving scenario object.

scenario = drivingScenario('SampleTime',0.1','StopTime',60);

Create the curved road using road center points following the arc of a circle with an 800-meter radius. The arc starts at 0°, ends at 90°, and is sampled at 5° increments.

angs = [0:5:90]';
R = 800;
roadcenters = R*[cosd(angs) sind(angs) zeros(size(angs))];
roadwidth = 10;
cr = road(scenario,roadcenters,roadwidth);

Add two straight roads with the default width, using road center points at each end. To the first straight road add barriers on both road edges.

roadcenters = [700 0 0; 100 0 0];
sr1 = road(scenario,roadcenters);
barrier(scenario,sr1)
barrier(scenario,sr1,'RoadEdge','left')
roadcenters = [400 400 0; 0 0 0];
road(scenario,roadcenters);

Get the road boundaries.

rbdry = roadBoundaries(scenario);

Add a car and a bicycle to the scenario. Position the car at the beginning of the first straight road.

car = vehicle(scenario,'ClassID',1,'Position',[700 0 0], ...
    'Length',3,'Width',2,'Height',1.6);

Position the bicycle farther down the road.

bicycle = actor(scenario,'ClassID',3,'Position',[706 376 0]', ...
    'Length',2,'Width',0.45,'Height',1.5);

Plot the scenario.

plot(scenario,'Centerline','on','RoadCenters','on');
title('Scenario');

Display the actor poses and profiles.

allActorPoses = actorPoses(scenario)

allActorPoses=242×1 struct array with fields:
    ActorID
    Position
    Velocity
    Roll
    Pitch
    Yaw
    AngularVelocity

allActorProfiles = actorProfiles(scenario)

allActorProfiles=242×1 struct array with fields:
    ActorID
    ClassID
    Length
    Width
    Height
    OriginOffset
    MeshVertices
    MeshFaces
    RCSPattern
    RCSAzimuthAngles
    RCSElevationAngles

Because there are barriers in this scenario, and each barrier segment is considered an actor, actorPoses and actorProfiles functions return the poses of all stationary and non-stationary actors. To only obtain the poses and profiles of non-stationary actors such as vehicles and bicycles, first obtain their corresponding actor IDs using the scenario.Actors.ActorID property.

movableActorIDs = [scenario.Actors.ActorID];

Then, use those IDs to filter only non-stationary actor poses and profiles.

movableActorPoseIndices = ismember([allActorPoses.ActorID],movableActorIDs);

movableActorPoses = allActorPoses(movableActorPoseIndices)

movableActorPoses=2×1 struct array with fields:
    ActorID
    Position
    Velocity
    Roll
    Pitch
    Yaw
    AngularVelocity

movableActorProfiles = allActorProfiles(movableActorPoseIndices)

movableActorProfiles=2×1 struct array with fields:
    ActorID
    ClassID
    Length
    Width
    Height
    OriginOffset
    MeshVertices
    MeshFaces
    RCSPattern
    RCSAzimuthAngles
    RCSElevationAngles

Input Arguments

scenario — Driving scenario

drivingScenario object

Driving scenario, specified as a drivingScenario object.

Output Arguments

profiles — Actor profiles

structure | array of structures

Actor profiles, returned as a structure or as an array of structures. Each structure contains the physical and radar characteristics of an actor.

The actor profile structures have these fields.

Field	Description
ActorID	Scenario-defined actor identifier, specified as a positive integer.
ClassID	Classification identifier, specified as a nonnegative integer. 0 represents an object of an unknown or unassigned class.
Length	Length of actor, specified as a positive real-valued scalar. Units are in meters.
Width	Width of actor, specified as a positive real-valued scalar. Units are in meters.
Height	Height of actor, specified as a positive real-valued scalar. Units are in meters.
OriginOffset	Offset of actor's rotational center from its geometric center, specified as a real-valued vector of the form [x, y, z]. The rotational center, or origin, is located at the bottom center of the actor. For vehicles, the rotational center is the point on the ground beneath the center of the rear axle. Units are in meters.
MeshVertices	Mesh vertices of actor, specified as an n-by-3 real-valued matrix of vertices. Each row in the matrix defines a point in 3-D space.
MeshFaces	Mesh faces of actor, specified as an m-by-3 matrix of integers. Each row of MeshFaces represents a triangle defined by the vertex IDs, which are the row numbers of vertices.
RCSPattern	Radar cross-section (RCS) pattern of actor, specified as a numel(RCSElevationAngles)-by-numel(RCSAzimuthAngles) real-valued matrix. Units are in decibels per square meter.
RCSAzimuthAngles	Azimuth angles corresponding to rows of RCSPattern, specified as a vector of values in the range [–180, 180]. Units are in degrees.
RCSElevationAngles	Elevation angles corresponding to rows of RCSPattern, specified as a vector of values in the range [–90, 90]. Units are in degrees.

For full definitions of these structure fields, see the actor, vehicle and barrier functions.

Version History

Introduced in R2017a