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Machine Learning (ML) has replaced traditional handcrafted methods for perception and prediction in autonomous vehicles. Yet for the equally important planning task, the adoption of ML-based techniques is slow. We present nuPlan, the…

We present a scalable and effective multi-agent safe motion planner that enables a group of agents to move to their desired locations while avoiding collisions with obstacles and other agents, with the presence of rich obstacles,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Jingkai Chen , Jiaoyang Li , Chuchu Fan , Brian Williams

In this paper, we present a bilevel optimal motion planning (BOMP) model for autonomous parking. The BOMP model treats motion planning as an optimal control problem, in which the upper level is designed for vehicle nonlinear dynamics, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Shenglei Shi , Youlun Xiong , Jiankui Chen , Caihua Xiong

This paper introduces a local planner that synergizes the decision making and trajectory planning modules towards autonomous driving. The decision making and trajectory planning tasks are jointly formulated as a nonlinear programming…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Wenru Liu , Haichao Liu , Lei Zheng , Zhenmin Huang , Jun Ma

In this work, we address the motion planning problem for autonomous vehicles through a new lattice planning approach, called Feedback Enhanced Lattice Planner (FELP). Existing lattice planners have two major limitations, namely the high…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Ke Sun , Brent Schlotfeldt , Stephen Chaves , Paul Martin , Gulshan Mandhyan , Vijay Kumar

With the release of open source datasets such as nuPlan and Argoverse, the research around learning-based planners has spread a lot in the last years. Existing systems have shown excellent capabilities in imitating the human driver…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Cristian Gariboldi , Matteo Corno , Beng Jin

Uncertainties in dynamic road environments pose significant challenges for behavior and trajectory planning in autonomous driving. This paper introduces Hi-Drive, a hierarchical planning algorithm addressing uncertainties at both behavior…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Xuanjin Jin , Chendong Zeng , Shengfa Zhu , Chunxiao Liu , Panpan Cai

With the increasing development of intelligent transportation systems and advancements in aviation technology, the concept of Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) is gaining attention. This study aims to improve operational safety and service…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-13 Jin Zhang , Xiaoran Qin , Ming Zhang

We present a planning framework designed for humanoid navigation over challenging terrain. This framework is designed to plan a traversable, smooth, and collision-free path using a 2.5D height map. The planner is comprised of two stages.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Stephen McCrory , Bhavyansh Mishra , Jaehoon An , Robert Griffin , Jerry Pratt , Hakki Erhan Sevil

Automated driving on ramps presents significant challenges due to the need to balance both safety and efficiency during lane changes. This paper proposes an integrated planner for automated vehicles (AVs) on ramps, utilizing an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-23 Yaoze Liu , Zhen Tian , Qifan Zhou , Zixuan Huang , Hongyu Sun

Autonomous driving remains a highly active research domain that seeks to enable vehicles to perceive dynamic environments, predict the future trajectories of traffic agents such as vehicles, pedestrians, and cyclists and plan safe and…

Recent road trials have shown that guaranteeing the safety of driving decisions is essential for the wider adoption of autonomous vehicle technology. One promising direction is to pose safety requirements as planning constraints in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Francisco Eiras , Majd Hawasly , Stefano V. Albrecht , Subramanian Ramamoorthy

Our research introduces a modular motion planning framework for autonomous vehicles using a sampling-based trajectory planning algorithm. This approach effectively tackles the challenges of solution space construction and optimization in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Rainer Trauth , Korbinian Moller , Gerald Wuersching , Johannes Betz

Quadrotors are agile platforms. With human experts, they can perform extremely high-speed flights in cluttered environments. However, fully autonomous flight at high speed remains a significant challenge. In this work, we propose a motion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Yunfan Ren , Fangcheng Zhu , Wenyi Liu , Zhepei Wang , Yi Lin , Fei Gao , Fu Zhang

We present the design of a motion planning algorithm that ensures safety for an autonomous vehicle. In particular, we consider a multimodal distribution over uncertainties; for example, the uncertain predictions of future trajectories of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-01 Heejin Ahn , Colin Chen , Ian M. Mitchell , Maryam Kamgarpour

Over the past decade, a wide range of motion planning approaches for autonomous vehicles has been developed to handle increasingly complex traffic scenarios. However, these approaches are rarely compared on standardized benchmarks, limiting…

We consider the problem of finding collision-free paths for curvature-constrained systems in the presence of obstacles while minimizing execution time. Specifically, we focus on the setting where a planar system can travel at some range of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Doron Pinsky , Petr Váňa , Jan Faigl , Oren Salzman

Motivated by the requirements for effectiveness and efficiency, path-speed decomposition-based trajectory planning methods have widely been adopted for autonomous driving applications. While a global route can be pre-computed offline,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Faizan M. Tariq , Zheng-Hang Yeh , Avinash Singh , David Isele , Sangjae Bae

This paper presents a novel planning and control strategy for competing with multiple vehicles in a car racing scenario. The proposed racing strategy switches between two modes. When there are no surrounding vehicles, a learning-based model…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Suiyi He , Jun Zeng , Koushil Sreenath

Motion planning is an essential part of autonomous mobile platforms. A good pipeline should be modular enough to handle different vehicles, environments, and perception modules. The planning process has to cope with all the different…