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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

Industrial manipulators are normally operated in cluttered environments, making safe motion planning important. Furthermore, the presence of model-uncertainties make safe motion planning more difficult. Therefore, in practice the speed is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Bernhard Wullt , Johannes Köhler , Per Mattsson , Mikeal Norrlöf , Thomas B. Schön

Fast and safe navigation of dynamical systems through a priori unknown cluttered environments is vital to many applications of autonomous systems. However, trajectory planning for autonomous systems is computationally intensive, often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Sylvia L. Herbert , Mo Chen , SooJean Han , Somil Bansal , Jaime F. Fisac , Claire J. Tomlin

Autonomous vehicles have to navigate the surrounding environment with partial observability of other objects sharing the road. Sources of uncertainty in autonomous vehicle measurements include sensor fusion errors, limited sensor range due…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Mohammad Naghshvar , Ahmed K. Sadek , Auke J. Wiggers

We address one of the crucial aspects necessary for safe and efficient operations of autonomous vehicles, namely predicting future state of traffic actors in the autonomous vehicle's surroundings. We introduce a deep learning-based approach…

We tackle safe trajectory planning under Gaussian mixture model (GMM) uncertainty. Specifically, we use a GMM to model the multimodal behaviors of obstacles' uncertain states. Then, we develop a mixed-integer conic approximation to the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Kai Ren , Heejin Ahn , Maryam Kamgarpour

Motion planning is an essential process for the navigation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) where they need to adapt to obstacles and different structures of their operating environment to reach the goal. This paper presents an optimal…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Duy-Nam Bui , Thu Hang Khuat , Manh Duong Phung , Thuan-Hoang Tran , Dong LT Tran

Path planning in dynamic environments is essential to high-risk applications such as unmanned aerial vehicles, self-driving cars, and autonomous underwater vehicles. In this paper, we generate collision-free trajectories for a robot within…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Sourav Dutta , Tuan Tran , Banafsheh Rekabdar , Chinwe Ekenna

Knowing and predicting dangerous factors within a scene are two key components during autonomous driving, especially in a crowded urban environment. To navigate safely in environments, risk assessment is needed to quantify and associate the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Ming-Yuan Yu , Ram Vasudevan , Matthew Johnson-Roberson

Constrained Iterative Linear Quadratic Regulator (CILQR), a variant of ILQR, has been recently proposed for motion planning problems of autonomous vehicles to deal with constraints such as obstacle avoidance and reference tracking. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Yanjun Pan , Qin Lin , Het Shah , John M. Dolan

This work studies the design of safe control policies for large-scale non-linear systems operating in uncertain environments. In such a case, the robust control framework is a principled approach to safety that aims to maximize the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-03-04 Edouard Leurent , Yann Blanco , Denis Efimov , Odalric-Ambrym Maillard

Safe trajectory planning for high-performance automated vehicles in an environment with both static and moving obstacles is a challenging problem. Part of the challenge is developing a formulation that can be solved in real-time while…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-29 Huckleberry Febbo , Paramsothy Jayakumar , Jeffrey L. Stein , Tulga Ersal

Safe motion planning is essential for autonomous vessel operations, especially in challenging spaces such as narrow inland waterways. However, conventional motion planning approaches are often computationally intensive or overly…

Path planning for autonomous vehicles in arbitrary environments requires a guarantee of safety, but this can be impractical to ensure in real-time when the vehicle is described with a high-fidelity model. To address this problem, this paper…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Shreyas Kousik , Sean Vaskov , Matthew Johnson-Roberson , Ramanarayan Vasudevan

Motion planning for autonomous vehicles sharing the road with human drivers remains challenging. The difficulty arises from three challenging aspects: human drivers are 1) multi-modal, 2) interacting with the autonomous vehicle, and 3)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Rui Oliveira , Siddharth H. Nair , Bo Wahlberg

We present a risk-aware formalism for evaluating system trajectories in the presence of uncertain interactions between the system and its environment. The proposed formalism supports reasoning under uncertainty and systematically handles…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-28 Tichakorn Wongpiromsarn

Accurate trajectory prediction and motion planning are crucial for autonomous driving systems to navigate safely in complex, interactive environments characterized by multimodal uncertainties. However, current generation-then-evaluation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Ruiguo Zhong , Ruoyu Yao , Pei Liu , Xiaolong Chen , Rui Yang , Jun Ma

Motion planning for urban environments with numerous moving agents can be viewed as a combinatorial problem. With passing an obstacle before, after, right or left, there are multiple options an autonomous vehicle could choose to execute.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Klemens Esterle , Patrick Hart , Julian Bernhard , Alois Knoll

Forecasting the scalable future states of surrounding traffic participants in complex traffic scenarios is a critical capability for autonomous vehicles, as it enables safe and feasible decision-making. Recent successes in learning-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Haochen Liu , Zhiyu Huang , Chen Lv

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