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Hybrid traffic modeling and simulation provide an important way to represent and evaluate large-scale traffic networks at different levels of details. The first level, called "microscopic" allows the description of individual vehicles and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2015-05-28 Najia Bouha , Gildas Morvan , Hassane Abouaïssa , Yoann Kubera

Developing autonomous vehicles that can navigate complex environments with human-level safety and efficiency is a central goal in self-driving research. A common approach to achieving this is imitation learning, where agents are trained to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Clémence Grislain , Risto Vuorio , Cong Lu , Shimon Whiteson

Traffic simulators are widely used to study the operational efficiency of road infrastructure, but their rule-based approach limits their ability to mimic real-world driving behavior. Traffic intersections are critical components of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Yash Ranjan , Rahul Sengupta , Anand Rangarajan , Sanjay Ranka

Traffic intersections are important scenes that can be seen almost everywhere in the traffic system. Currently, most simulation methods perform well at highways and urban traffic networks. In intersection scenarios, the challenge lies in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Pei Lv , Xinming Pei , Xinyu Ren , Yuzhen Zhang , Chaochao Li , Mingliang Xu

Simulation of the real-world traffic can be used to help validate the transportation policies. A good simulator means the simulated traffic is similar to real-world traffic, which often requires dense traffic trajectories (i.e., with a high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Hua Wei , Chacha Chen , Chang Liu , Guanjie Zheng , Zhenhui Li

In the realm of autonomous driving, conventional approaches for vehicle perception and decision-making primarily rely on sensor input and rule-based algorithms. However, these methodologies often suffer from lack of interpretability and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Haidong Wang , Pengfei Xiao , Ao Liu , Qia Shan , Jianhua Zhang

Traditional decision and planning frameworks for self-driving vehicles (SDVs) scale poorly in new scenarios, thus they require tedious hand-tuning of rules and parameters to maintain acceptable performance in all foreseeable cases.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Peide Cai , Hengli Wang , Yuxiang Sun , Ming Liu

A set of very simple rules for driving behavior used to simulate roadway traffic gives realistic results. Because of its simplicity, it is easy to implement the model on supercomputers (vectorizing and parallel), where we have achieved real…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-02-03 K. Nagel

Predicting the trajectories of vehicles is crucial for the development of autonomous driving (AD) systems, particularly in complex and dynamic traffic environments. In this study, we introduce HiT (Human-like Trajectory Prediction), a novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Haicheng Liao , Zhenning Li , Guohui Zhang , Keqiang Li , Chengzhong Xu

The heavy traffic and related issues have always been concerns for modern cities. With the help of deep learning and reinforcement learning, people have proposed various policies to solve these traffic-related problems, such as smart…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Chang Liu , Guanjie Zheng , Zhenhui Li

An input to a system reveals a non-robust behaviour when, by making a small change in the input, the output of the system changes from acceptable (passing) to unacceptable (failing) or vice versa. Identifying inputs that lead to non-robust…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Baharin Aliashrafi Jodat , Shiva Nejati , Mehrdad Sabetzadeh , Patricio Saavedra

Interactive traffic simulation is crucial to autonomous driving systems by enabling testing for planners in a more scalable and safe way compared to real-world road testing. Existing approaches learn an agent model from large-scale driving…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Qiao Sun , Xin Huang , Brian C. Williams , Hang Zhao

Expert human drivers perform actions relying on traffic laws and their previous experience. While traffic laws are easily embedded into an artificial brain, modeling human complex behaviors which come from past experience is a more…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Giulio Bacchiani , Daniele Molinari , Marco Patander

Road inspection is crucial for maintaining road serviceability and ensuring traffic safety, as road defects gradually develop and compromise functionality. Traditional inspection methods, which rely on manual evaluations, are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Yikang Zhang , Chuang-Wei Liu , Jiahang Li , Yingbing Chen , Jie Cheng , Rui Fan

In this work, we present a simple end-to-end trainable machine learning system capable of realistically simulating driving experiences. This can be used for the verification of self-driving system performance without relying on expensive…

An accurate model of the environment and the dynamic agents acting in it offers great potential for improving motion planning. We present MILE: a Model-based Imitation LEarning approach to jointly learn a model of the world and a policy for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Anthony Hu , Gianluca Corrado , Nicolas Griffiths , Zak Murez , Corina Gurau , Hudson Yeo , Alex Kendall , Roberto Cipolla , Jamie Shotton

Simulation is a prospective method for generating diverse and realistic traffic scenarios to aid in the development of driving decision-making systems. However, existing simulators often fall short in diverse scenarios or interactive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Yueyuan Li , Songan Zhang , Mingyang Jiang , Xingyuan Chen , Yeqiang Qian , Chunxiang Wang , Ming Yang

Significant challenges are posed by simulation and testing in the field of low-altitude unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) traffic due to the high costs associated with large-scale UAV testing and the complexity of establishing low-altitude…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Zonghan Li , Tianwen Tao , Rao Fu , Liang Wang , Dongyuan Zhang , Quan Quan

We propose an imitation learning system for autonomous driving in urban traffic with interactions. We train a Behavioral Cloning~(BC) policy to imitate driving behavior collected from the real urban traffic, and apply the data aggregation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Zhao-Heng Yin , Chenran Li , Liting Sun , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Wei Zhan

Traffic congestion and violations pose significant challenges for urban mobility and road safety. Traditional traffic monitoring systems, such as fixed cameras and sensor-based methods, are often constrained by limited coverage, low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Ali Khanpour , Tianyi Wang , Afra Vahidi-Shams , Wim Ectors , Farzam Nakhaie , Amirhossein Taheri , Christian Claudel