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Decision-making for automated driving remains a challenging task. For their integration into real platforms, these algorithms must guarantee passenger safety and comfort while ensuring interpretability and an appropriate computational time.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Karim Essalmi , Fernando Garrido , Fawzi Nashashibi

Motion planning is crucial for safe navigation in complex urban environments. Historically, motion planners (MPs) have been evaluated with procedurally-generated simulators like CARLA. However, such synthetic benchmarks do not capture…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Arun Balajee Vasudevan , Neehar Peri , Jeff Schneider , Deva Ramanan

Many existing autonomous driving paradigms involve a multi-stage discrete pipeline of tasks. To better predict the control signals and enhance user safety, an end-to-end approach that benefits from joint spatial-temporal feature learning is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Shengchao Hu , Li Chen , Penghao Wu , Hongyang Li , Junchi Yan , Dacheng Tao

The decision and planning system for autonomous driving in urban environments is hard to design. Most current methods manually design the driving policy, which can be expensive to develop and maintain at scale. Instead, with imitation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Jianyu Chen , Bodi Yuan , Masayoshi Tomizuka

Path planners that can interpret free-form natural language instructions hold promise to automate a wide range of robotics applications. These planners simplify user interactions and enable intuitive control over complex semi-autonomous…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-17 William English , Dominic Simon , Sumit Jha , Rickard Ewetz

We propose a new scheme to learn motion planning constraints from human driving trajectories. Behavioral and motion planning are the key components in an autonomous driving system. The behavioral planning is responsible for high-level…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Kasra Rezaee , Peyman Yadmellat

State-of-the-art autonomous driving systems rely on high definition (HD) maps for localization and navigation. However, building and maintaining HD maps is time-consuming and expensive. Furthermore, the HD maps assume structured environment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Jiaolong Xu , Liang Xiao , Dawei Zhao , Yiming Nie , Bin Dai

Motion planning in complex scenarios is the core challenge in autonomous driving. Conventional methods apply predefined rules or learn from driving data to plan the future trajectory. Recent methods seek the knowledge preserved in large…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Ruijun Zhang , Xianda Guo , Wenzhao Zheng , Chenming Zhang , Kurt Keutzer , Long Chen

Fast and efficient sampling-based motion planning (SMP) is an integral component of many robotic systems, such as autonomous cars. A popular technique to improve the efficiency of these planners is to restrict search space in the planning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Jacob J. Johnson , Uday S. Kalra , Ankit Bhatia , Linjun Li , Ahmed H. Qureshi , Michael C. Yip

Traditional autonomous vehicle pipelines that follow a modular approach have been very successful in the past both in academia and industry, which has led to autonomy deployed on road. Though this approach provides ease of interpretation,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Tanmay Agarwal , Hitesh Arora , Jeff Schneider

Existing end-to-end autonomous driving models rely heavily on purely data-driven inductive reasoning. This "black-box" nature leads to a lack of interpretability and absolute safety guarantees in complex, long-tail scenarios. To overcome…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Hongyan Wei , Wael AbdAlmageed

We present an approach for safe trajectory planning, where a strategic task related to autonomous racing is learned sample-efficient within a simulation environment. A high-level policy, represented as a neural network, outputs a reward…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Rudolf Reiter , Jasper Hoffmann , Joschka Boedecker , Moritz Diehl

The current paradigm for motion planning generates solutions from scratch for every new problem, which consumes significant amounts of time and computational resources. For complex, cluttered scenes, motion planning approaches can often…

Modern autonomous driving systems are typically divided into three main tasks: perception, prediction, and planning. The planning task involves predicting the trajectory of the ego vehicle based on inputs from both internal intention and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Jiang-Tian Zhai , Ze Feng , Jinhao Du , Yongqiang Mao , Jiang-Jiang Liu , Zichang Tan , Yifu Zhang , Xiaoqing Ye , Jingdong Wang

Despite real-time planners exhibiting remarkable performance in autonomous driving, the growing exploration of Large Language Models (LLMs) has opened avenues for enhancing the interpretability and controllability of motion planning.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Yuan Chen , Zi-han Ding , Ziqin Wang , Yan Wang , Lijun Zhang , Si Liu

Hybrid planner switching framework (HPSF) for autonomous driving needs to reconcile high-speed driving efficiency with safe maneuvering in dense traffic. Existing HPSF methods often fail to make reliable mode transitions or sustain…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-30 He Li , Zhaowei Chen , Rui Gao , Guoliang Li , Qi Hao , Shuai Wang , Chengzhong Xu

Motion planning for autonomous driving must handle multiple plausible futures while remaining computationally efficient. Recent end-to-end systems and world-model-based planners predict rich multi-modal trajectories, but typically rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Bin Hu , Zijian Lu , Haicheng Liao , Chengran Yuan , Bin Rao , Yongkang Li , Guofa Li , Zhiyong Cui , Cheng-zhong Xu , Zhenning Li

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

We present a novel approach for efficient and reliable goal-directed long-horizon navigation for a multi-robot team in a structured, unknown environment by predicting statistics of unknown space. Building on recent work in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Abhish Khanal , Gregory J. Stein

We propose a real-time implementable motion planning framework for cooperative object transportation by nonholonomic mobile manipulator robots (MMRs) in dynamic environments. Our global planner finds a path from start to goal through the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Keshab Patra , Arpita Sinha , Anirban Guha