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Urban intersections represent a complex environment for autonomous vehicles with many sources of uncertainty. The vehicle must plan in a stochastic environment with potentially rapid changes in driver behavior. Providing an efficient…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-04-17 Maxime Bouton , Akansel Cosgun , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

A self-driving vehicle must understand its environment to determine the appropriate action. Traditional autonomy systems rely on object detection to find the agents in the scene. However, object detection assumes a discrete set of objects…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Sourav Biswas , Sergio Casas , Quinlan Sykora , Ben Agro , Abbas Sadat , Raquel Urtasun

Traffic congestion in metropolitan areas presents a formidable challenge with far-reaching economic, environmental, and societal ramifications. Therefore, effective congestion management is imperative, with traffic signal control (TSC)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-13 Maonan Wang , Aoyu Pang , Yuheng Kan , Man-On Pun , Chung Shue Chen , Bo Huang

Intelligent mechanisms implemented in autonomous vehicles, such as proactive driving assist and collision alerts, reduce traffic accidents. However, verifying their correct functionality is difficult due to complex interactions with the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Diego Ortiz Barbosa , Luis Burbano , Carlos Hernandez , Zengxiang Lei , Younghee Park , Satish Ukkusuri , Alvaro A Cardenas

Path Loss (PL) is vital to evaluate the performance of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) as Aerial Base Stations (ABSs), particularly in urban environments with complex propagation due to various obstacles. Accurately modeling PL requires a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Abdul Saboor , Zhuangzhuang Cui , Evgenii Vinogradov , Sofie Pollin

Autonomous driving in urban crowds at unregulated intersections is challenging, where dynamic occlusions and uncertain behaviors of other vehicles should be carefully considered. Traditional methods are heuristic and based on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Peide Cai , Sukai Wang , Hengli Wang , Ming Liu

Traffic congestion remains a significant challenge in modern urban networks. Autonomous driving technologies have emerged as a potential solution. Among traffic control methods, reinforcement learning has shown superior performance over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Songyang Liu , Muyang Fan , Weizi Li , Jing Du , Shuai Li

Unmanned vehicle technologies are an area of great interest in theory and practice today. These technologies have advanced considerably after the first applications have been implemented and cause a rapid change in human life. Autonomous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Sertap Kamçı , Dogukan Aksu , Muhammed Ali Aydin

The cooperation of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) has shown great potential in improving traffic efficiency during intersection management. Existing research mainly focuses on intersections where lane changing is prohibited, which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-30 Chaoyi Chen , Mengchi Cai , Jiawei Wang , Kai Li , Qing Xu , Jianqiang Wang , Keqiang Li

Navigating through intersections is one of the main challenging tasks for an autonomous vehicle. However, for the majority of intersections regulated by traffic lights, the problem could be solved by a simple rule-based method in which the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Alessandro Paolo Capasso , Paolo Maramotti , Anthony Dell'Eva , Alberto Broggi

Traffic forecasting is pivotal for intelligent transportation systems, where accurate and interpretable predictions can significantly enhance operational efficiency and safety. A key challenge stems from the heterogeneity of traffic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Seyed Mohamad Moghadas , Bruno Cornelis , Alexandre Alahi , Adrian Munteanu

Machine Learning (ML) models are increasingly integrated into safety-critical systems, such as autonomous vehicle platooning, to enable real-time decision-making. However, their inherent imperfection introduces a new class of failure:…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Razieh Arshadizadeh , Mahmoud Asgari , Zeinab Khosravi , Yiannis Papadopoulos , Koorosh Aslansefat

Traffic prediction has long been a focal and pivotal area in research, witnessing both significant strides from city-level to road-level predictions in recent years. With the advancement of Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) technologies,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Shuhao Li , Yue Cui , Jingyi Xu , Libin Li , Lingkai Meng , Weidong Yang , Fan Zhang , Xiaofang Zhou

A novel paradigm for vehicular traffic in the era of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) is proposed, which includes two combined principles: lane-free traffic and vehicle nudging, whereby vehicles are "pushing" (from a distance, using…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Markos Papageorgiou , Kyriakos-Simon Mountakis , Iasson Karafyllis , Ioannis Papamichail

With the development of autonomous driving, the improvement of autonomous driving technology for individual vehicles has reached the bottleneck. The advancement of vehicle-road cooperation autonomous driving technology can expand the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Songbin Chen

In recent years, considerable progress has been made towards a vehicle's ability to operate autonomously. An end-to-end approach attempts to achieve autonomous driving using a single, comprehensive software component. Recent breakthroughs…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Hege Haavaldsen , Max Aasboe , Frank Lindseth

Emerging vehicular systems with increasing proportions of automated components present opportunities for optimal control to mitigate congestion and increase efficiency. There has been a recent interest in applying deep reinforcement…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Zhongxia Yan , Abdul Rahman Kreidieh , Eugene Vinitsky , Alexandre M. Bayen , Cathy Wu

Autonomous vehicles interacting with other traffic participants heavily rely on the perception and prediction of other agents' behaviors to plan safe trajectories. However, as occlusions limit the vehicle's perception ability, reasoning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Zixu Zhang , Jaime F. Fisac

This paper proposes a physics-inspired solution for low altitude Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Traffic Management (UTM) in urban areas. We decompose UTM into spatial and temporal planning problems. For the spatial planning problem, we use…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-13 Hamid Emadi , Ella Atkins , Hossein Rastgoftar

Comprehensive environment perception is essential for autonomous vehicles to operate safely. It is crucial to detect both dynamic road users and static objects like traffic signs or lanes as these are required for safe motion planning.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Jörg Gamerdinger , Sven Teufel , Georg Volk , Oliver Bringmann