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Planning collision free trajectories in complex environments remains a core challenge in robotics. Existing corridor based planners which rely on decomposition of the free space into collision free subsets scale poorly with environmental…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Akshay Jaitly , Jon Arrizabalaga , Guanrui Li

Safe corridor-based Trajectory Optimization (TO) presents an appealing approach for collision-free path planning of autonomous robots, offering global optimality through its convex formulation. The safe corridor is constructed based on the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Shaohang Xu , Haolin Ruan , Wentao Zhang , Yian Wang , Lijun Zhu , Chin Pang Ho

To achieve autonomy in unknown and unstructured environments, we propose a method for semantic-based planning under perceptual uncertainty. This capability is crucial for safe and efficient robot navigation in environment with…

Trajectory prediction in autonomous driving relies on accurate representation of all relevant contexts of the driving scene, including traffic participants, road topology, traffic signs, as well as their semantic relations to each other.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Zhigang Sun , Zixu Wang , Lavdim Halilaj , Juergen Luettin

Pedestrian trajectory prediction is a critical to avoid autonomous driving collision. But this prediction is a challenging problem due to social forces and cluttered scenes. Such human-human and human-space interactions lead to many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Xiong Dan

Trajectory planning and control have historically been separated into two modules in automated driving stacks. Trajectory planning focuses on higher-level tasks like avoiding obstacles and staying on the road surface, whereas the controller…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Rowan Dempster , Mohammad Al-Sharman , Derek Rayside , William Melek

This paper presents a continuous-time optimal control framework for the generation of reference trajectories in driving scenarios with uncertainty. A previous work presented a discrete-time stochastic generator for autonomous vehicles;…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Ange Valli , Shangyuan Zhang , Abdel Lisser

Multi-vehicle coordinated motion planning has always been challenged to safely and efficiently resolve conflicts under non-holonomic dynamic constraints. Constructing spatial-temporal corridors for multi-vehicle can decouple the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Xiang Zhang , Boyang Wang , Yaomin Lu , Haiou Liu , Jianwei Gong , Huiyan Chen

Road obstacle detection is an important problem for vehicle driving safety. In this paper, we aim to obtain robust road obstacle detection based on spatio-temporal context modeling. Firstly, a data-driven spatial context model of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Xiuen Wu , Tao Wang , Lingyu Liang , Zuoyong Li , Fum Yew Ching

The autonomous driving industry is expected to grow by over 20 times in the coming decade and, thus, motivate researchers to delve into it. The primary focus of their research is to ensure safety, comfort, and efficiency. An autonomous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Jilan Samiuddin , Benoit Boulet , Di Wu

Planning trajectories for automated vehicles in urban environments requires methods with high generality, long planning horizons, and fast update rates. Using a path-velocity decomposition, we contribute a novel planning framework, which…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Jona Ruof , Max Bastian Mertens , Michael Buchholz , Klaus Dietmayer

Safe navigation in dynamic environments remains challenging due to uncertain obstacle behaviors and the lack of formal prediction guarantees. We propose two motion planning frameworks that leverage conformal prediction (CP): a global…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Kaier Liang , Licheng Luo , Yixuan Wang , Mingyu Cai , Cristian Ioan Vasile

This work is concerned with developing a data-driven approach for learning control barrier certificates (CBCs) and associated safety controllers for discrete-time nonlinear polynomial systems with unknown mathematical models, guaranteeing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Behrad Samari , Omid Akbarzadeh , Mahdieh Zaker , Abolfazl Lavaei

This paper presents a new trajectory planning method for multiple quadrotors in obstacle-dense environments. We suggest a relative safe flight corridor (RSFC) to model safe region between a pair of agents, and it is used to generate linear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-09 Jungwon Park , H. Jin Kim

We propose an online iterative algorithm to optimize a convex cover to under-approximate the free space for autonomous navigation to delineate Safe Flight Corridors (SFC). The convex cover consists of a set of polytopes such that the union…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Yuwei Wu , Igor Spasojevic , Pratik Chaudhari , Vijay Kumar

Efficient trajectory planning for urban intersections is currently one of the most challenging tasks for an Autonomous Vehicle (AV). Courteous behavior towards other traffic participants, the AV's comfort and its progression in the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Oliver Speidel , Maximilian Graf , Ankit Kaushik , Thanh Phan-Huu , Andreas Wedel , Klaus Dietmayer

Ensuring safety and driving consistency is a significant challenge for autonomous vehicles operating in partially observed environments. This work introduces a consistent parallel trajectory optimization (CPTO) approach to enable safe and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Lei Zheng , Rui Yang , Minzhe Zheng , Michael Yu Wang , Jun Ma

This work addresses a gap in semantic scene completion (SSC) data by creating a novel outdoor data set with accurate and complete dynamic scenes. Our data set is formed from randomly sampled views of the world at each time step, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Joey Wilson , Jingyu Song , Yuewei Fu , Arthur Zhang , Andrew Capodieci , Paramsothy Jayakumar , Kira Barton , Maani Ghaffari

Generating time-optimal, collision-free trajectories for autonomous mobile robots involves a fundamental trade-off between guaranteeing safety and managing computational complexity. State-of-the-art approaches formulate spline-based motion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Dries Dirckx , Jan Swevers , Wilm Decré

MPC (Model predictive control)-based motion planning and trajectory generation are essential in applications such as unmanned aerial vehicles, robotic manipulators, and rocket control. However, the real-time implementation of such…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Haotian Tan , Yuan-Hua Ni