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Effective motion planning in high dimensional spaces is a long-standing open problem in robotics. One class of traditional motion planning algorithms corresponds to potential-based motion planning. An advantage of potential based motion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Yunhao Luo , Chen Sun , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Yilun Du

Temporal prediction is critical for making intelligent and robust decisions in complex dynamic environments. Motion prediction needs to model the inherently uncertain future which often contains multiple potential outcomes, due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Yichuan Charlie Tang , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Accurate traffic participant prediction is the prerequisite for collision avoidance of autonomous vehicles. In this work, we predict pedestrians by emulating their own motion planning. From online observations, we infer a mixture density…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-21 Eike Rehder , Florian Wirth , Martin Lauer , Christoph Stiller

Operation in a real world traffic requires autonomous vehicles to be able to plan their motion in complex environments (multiple moving participants). Planning through such environment requires the right search space to be provided for the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Jasprit Singh Gill , Pierluigi Pisu , Venkat N. Krovi , Matthias J. Schmid

Motion forecasts of road users (i.e., agents) vary in complexity depending on the number of agents, scene constraints, and interactions. In particular, the output space of joint trajectory distributions grows exponentially with the number…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Royden Wagner , Omer Sahin Tas , Felix Hauser , Marlon Steiner , Dominik Strutz , Abhishek Vivekanandan , Jaime Villa , Yinzhe Shen , Carlos Fernandez , Christoph Stiller

Most computational accounts of cognitive maps assume that stability is achieved primarily through sensory anchoring, with self-motion contributing to incremental positional updates only. However, biological spatial representations often…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-24 Yingchao Yu , Pengfei Sun , Yaochu Jin , Kuangrong Hao , Hao Zhang , Yifeng Zhang , Wenxuan Pan , Wei Chen , Danyal Akarca , Yuchen Xiao

The goal of autonomous vehicles is to navigate public roads safely and comfortably. To enforce safety, traditional planning approaches rely on handcrafted rules to generate trajectories. Machine learning-based systems, on the other hand,…

Autonomous cars have to navigate in dynamic environment which can be full of uncertainties. The uncertainties can come either from sensor limitations such as occlusions and limited sensor range, or from probabilistic prediction of other…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-06 Liting Sun , Wei Zhan , Ching-Yao Chan , Masayoshi Tomizuka

Predicting a vehicle's trajectory is an essential ability for autonomous vehicles navigating through complex urban traffic scenes. Bird's-eye-view roadmap information provides valuable information for making trajectory predictions, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Ross Greer , Nachiket Deo , Mohan Trivedi

Motion forecasting for on-road traffic agents presents both a significant challenge and a critical necessity for ensuring safety in autonomous driving systems. In contrast to most existing data-driven approaches that directly predict future…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Muleilan Pei , Shaoshuai Shi , Xuesong Chen , Xu Liu , Shaojie Shen

Quantifying and encoding occupants' preferences as an objective function for the tactical decision making of autonomous vehicles is a challenging task. This paper presents a low-complexity approach for lane-change initiation and planning to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Salar Arbabi , Shilp Dixit , Ziyao Zheng , David Oxtoby , Alexandros Mouzakitis , Saber Fallah

This paper presents a novel approach to improving autonomous vehicle control in environments lacking clear road markings by integrating a diffusion-based motion predictor within an Active Inference Framework (AIF). Using a simulated parking…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Yufei Huang , Yulin Li , Andrea Matta , Mohsen Jafari

Accurate motion prediction of surrounding traffic participants is crucial for the safe and efficient operation of automated vehicles in dynamic environments. Marginal prediction models commonly forecast each agent's future trajectories…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Fabian Konstantinidis , Ariel Dallari Guerreiro , Raphael Trumpp , Moritz Sackmann , Ulrich Hofmann , Marco Caccamo , Christoph Stiller

Motion prediction of road users in traffic scenes is critical for autonomous driving systems that must take safe and robust decisions in complex dynamic environments. We present a novel motion prediction system for autonomous driving. Our…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Morris Antonello , Mihai Dobre , Stefano V. Albrecht , John Redford , Subramanian Ramamoorthy

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

Understanding the spatial dynamics of cars within urban systems is essential for optimizing infrastructure management and resource allocation. Recent empirical approaches for analyzing traffic patterns have gained traction due to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Kangan Qian , Jinyu Miao , Xinyu Jiao , Ziang Luo , Zheng Fu , Yining Shi , Yunlong Wang , Kun Jiang , Diange Yang

Motion planning at urban intersections that accounts for the situation context, handles occlusions, and deals with measurement and prediction uncertainty is a major challenge on the way to urban automated driving. In this work, we address…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Johannes Müller , Jan Strohbeck , Martin Herrmann , Michael Buchholz

To plan a safe and efficient route, an autonomous vehicle should anticipate future motions of other agents around it. Motion prediction is an extremely challenging task which recently gained significant attention of the research community.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Aleksey Postnikov , Aleksander Gamayunov , Gonzalo Ferrer

Motion planning in environments with multiple agents is critical to many important autonomous applications such as autonomous vehicles and assistive robots. This paper considers the problem of motion planning, where the controlled agent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Yuxiao Chen , Ugo Rosolia , Chuchu Fan , Aaron D. Ames , Richard Murray

Predictions of driver's intentions and their behaviors using the road is of great importance for planning and decision making processes of autonomous driving vehicles. In particular, relatively short-term driving intentions are the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Zhou Xing , Fei Xiao