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Predicting the motion of a mobile agent from a third-person perspective is an important component for many robotics applications, such as autonomous navigation and tracking. With accurate motion prediction of other agents, robots can plan…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-18 Yanfu Zhang , Wenshan Wang , Rogerio Bonatti , Daniel Maturana , Sebastian Scherer

Motivated by vision-based control of autonomous vehicles, we consider the problem of controlling a known linear dynamical system for which partial state information, such as vehicle position, is extracted from complex and nonlinear data,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-24 Sarah Dean , Nikolai Matni , Benjamin Recht , Vickie Ye

Safe and efficient autonomous driving maneuvers in an interactive and complex environment can be considerably challenging due to the unpredictable actions of other surrounding agents that may be cooperative or adversarial in their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Pin Wang , Ching-Yao Chan , Hanhan Li

Learning predictive models from interaction with the world allows an agent, such as a robot, to learn about how the world works, and then use this learned model to plan coordinated sequences of actions to bring about desired outcomes.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Karl Schmeckpeper , Annie Xie , Oleh Rybkin , Stephen Tian , Kostas Daniilidis , Sergey Levine , Chelsea Finn

One of the great promises of robot learning systems is that they will be able to learn from their mistakes and continuously adapt to ever-changing environments. Despite this potential, most of the robot learning systems today are deployed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Ryan Julian , Benjamin Swanson , Gaurav S. Sukhatme , Sergey Levine , Chelsea Finn , Karol Hausman

While reinforcement learning algorithms provide automated acquisition of optimal policies, practical application of such methods requires a number of design decisions, such as manually designing reward functions that not only define the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Tim G. J. Rudner , Vitchyr H. Pong , Rowan McAllister , Yarin Gal , Sergey Levine

Despite remarkable progress in driving world models, their potential for autonomous systems remains largely untapped: the world models are mostly learned for world simulation and decoupled from trajectory planning. While recent efforts aim…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Zhida Zhao , Talas Fu , Yifan Wang , Lijun Wang , Huchuan Lu

We propose a control framework that integrates model-based bipedal locomotion with residual reinforcement learning (RL) to achieve robust and adaptive walking in the presence of real-world uncertainties. Our approach leverages a model-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Yashuai Yan , Tobias Egle , Christian Ott , Dongheui Lee

It is still a challenging topic to make reactive driving behaviors in complex urban environments as road users' intentions are unknown. Model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL) offers great potential to learn a reactive policy by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Yinfeng Gao , Qichao Zhang , Da-wei Ding , Dongbin Zhao

This paper investigates the vision-based autonomous driving with deep learning and reinforcement learning methods. Different from the end-to-end learning method, our method breaks the vision-based lateral control system down into a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Dong Li , Dongbin Zhao , Qichao Zhang , Yaran Chen

Making safe and human-like decisions is an essential capability of autonomous driving systems, and learning-based behavior planning presents a promising pathway toward achieving this objective. Distinguished from existing learning-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Zhiyu Huang , Haochen Liu , Jingda Wu , Chen Lv

Offline reinforcement learning (RL) enables policy optimization using static datasets, avoiding the risks and costs of extensive real-world exploration. However, it struggles with suboptimal offline behaviors and inaccurate value estimation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Minting Pan , Yitao Zheng , Jiajian Li , Yunbo Wang , Xiaokang Yang

Reinforcement learning provides an appealing framework for robotic control due to its ability to learn expressive policies purely through real-world interaction. However, this requires addressing real-world constraints and avoiding…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Kyle Stachowicz , Sergey Levine

We propose the use of latent space generative world models to address the covariate shift problem in autonomous driving. A world model is a neural network capable of predicting an agent's next state given past states and actions. By…

Autonomous navigation in dense traffic scenarios remains challenging for autonomous vehicles (AVs) because the intentions of other drivers are not directly observable and AVs have to deal with a wide range of driving behaviors. To maneuver…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Bruno Brito , Achin Agarwal , Javier Alonso-Mora

When driving, people make decisions based on current traffic as well as their desired route. They have a mental map of known routes and are often able to navigate without needing directions. Current self-driving models improve their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Iulia Paraicu , Marius Leordeanu

In autonomous driving, traditional Computer Vision (CV) agents often struggle in unfamiliar situations due to biases in the training data. Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) agents address this by learning from experience and maximizing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Bhargava Uppuluri , Anjel Patel , Neil Mehta , Sridhar Kamath , Pratyush Chakraborty

Autonomous racing presents unique challenges due to its non-linear dynamics, the high speed involved, and the critical need for real-time decision-making under dynamic and unpredictable conditions. Most traditional Reinforcement Learning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Benedict Hildisch , Edoardo Ghignone , Nicolas Baumann , Cheng Hu , Andrea Carron , Michele Magno

In this work, we present a learning method for lateral and longitudinal motion control of an ego-vehicle for vehicle pursuit. The car being controlled does not have a pre-defined route, rather it reactively adapts to follow a target vehicle…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Jiaxin Pan , Changyao Zhou , Mariia Gladkova , Qadeer Khan , Daniel Cremers

Recently, world models have been incorporated into the autonomous driving systems to improve the planning reliability. Existing approaches typically predict future states through appearance generation or deterministic regression, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Xiaolu Liu , Yicong Li , Song Wang , Junbo Chen , Angela Yao , Jianke Zhu