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Autonomous navigation through unknown environments is a challenging task that entails real-time localization, perception, planning, and control. UAVs with this capability have begun to emerge in the literature with advances in lightweight…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Jesus Tordesillas , Brett T. Lopez , John Carter , John Ware , Jonathan P. How

In today's world, circumstances, processes, and requirements for software systems are becoming increasingly complex. In order to operate properly in such dynamic environments, software systems must adapt to these changes, which has led to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Veronika Lesch , Marius Hadry , Samuel Kounev , Christian Krupitzer

Recent years have seen an increasing number of deployment of fleets of autonomous vehicles. As the problem scales up, in terms of autonomous vehicles number and complexity of their objectives, there is a growing need for decision-support…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Roland Godet , Charles Lesire , Arthur Bit-Monnot

Planning safe trajectories for autonomous vehicles is essential for operational safety but remains extremely challenging due to the complex interactions among traffic participants. Recent autonomous driving frameworks have focused on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Tian Niu , Kaizhao Zhang , Zhongxue Gan , Wenchao Ding

Spatio-temporal machine learning is critically needed for a variety of societal applications, such as agricultural monitoring, hydrological forecast, and traffic management. These applications greatly rely on regional features that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Zhexiong Liu , Licheng Liu , Yiqun Xie , Zhenong Jin , Xiaowei Jia

Autonomous driving requires safe planning, but most learning-based planners lack explicit self-correction ability: once an unsafe action is proposed, there is no mechanism to correct it. Thus, we propose CorrectionPlanner, an autoregressive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Yihong Guo , Dongqiangzi Ye , Sijia Chen , Anqi Liu , Xianming Liu

With the evolution of self-driving cars, autonomous racing series like Roborace and the Indy Autonomous Challenge are rapidly attracting growing attention. Researchers participating in these competitions hope to subsequently transfer their…

Planning safe trajectories under uncertain and dynamic conditions makes the autonomous driving problem significantly complex. Current sampling-based methods such as Rapidly Exploring Random Trees (RRTs) are not ideal for this problem…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Kaleb Ben Naveed , Zhiqian Qiao , John M. Dolan

Utilizing robots for autonomous target search in complex and unknown environments can greatly improve the efficiency of search and rescue missions. However, existing methods have shown inadequate performance due to hardware platform…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Hao Zhang , Yifei Wang , Weifan Zhang , Yu Wang , Haoyao Chen

Motion planning in dynamically changing environments is one of the most complex challenges in autonomous driving. Safety is a crucial requirement, along with driving comfort and speed limits. While classical sampling-based, lattice-based,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Maksim Katerishich , Mikhail Kurenkov , Sausar Karaf , Artem Nenashev , Dzmitry Tsetserukou

This paper addresses the problem of planning a safe (i.e., collision-free) trajectory from an initial state to a goal region when the obstacle space is a-priori unknown and is incrementally revealed online, e.g., through line-of-sight…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Lucas Janson , Tommy Hu , Marco Pavone

Driving requires reacting to a wide variety of complex environment conditions and agent behaviors. Explicitly modeling each possible scenario is unrealistic. In contrast, imitation learning can, in theory, leverage data from large fleets of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Felipe Codevilla , Eder Santana , Antonio M. López , Adrien Gaidon

In this paper, we present a learning approach to goal assignment and trajectory planning for unlabeled robots operating in 2D, obstacle-filled workspaces. More specifically, we tackle the unlabeled multi-robot motion planning problem with…

In this technical report, we present the 2nd place solution of 2023 Waymo Open Sim Agents Challenge (WOSAC)[4]. We propose a simple yet effective autoregressive method for simulating multi-agent behaviors, which is built upon a well-known…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Cheng Qian , Di Xiu , Minghao Tian

Reinforcement learning (RL) faces challenges in trajectory planning for urban automated driving due to the poor convergence of RL and the difficulty in designing reward functions. Consequently, few RL-based trajectory planning methods can…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Di Zeng , Ling Zheng , Xiantong Yang , Yinong Li

In the context of urban autonomous driving, imitation learning-based methods have shown remarkable effectiveness, with a typical practice to minimize the discrepancy between expert driving logs and predictive decision sequences. As expert…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Ren Xin , Jie Cheng , Hongji Liu , Jun Ma

Imitation learning is a powerful tool for training robot manipulation policies, allowing them to learn from expert demonstrations without manual programming or trial-and-error. However, common methods of data collection, such as human…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Murtaza Dalal , Ajay Mandlekar , Caelan Garrett , Ankur Handa , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Dieter Fox

To improve safety and energy efficiency, autonomous vehicles are expected to drive smoothly in most situations, while maintaining their velocity below a predetermined speed limit. However, some scenarios such as low road adherence or…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-04-05 Florent Altché , Philip Polack , Arnaud de la Fortelle

We present a modular, full-stack autonomy system for lunar surface navigation and mapping developed for the Lunar Autonomy Challenge. Operating in a GNSS-denied, visually challenging environment, our pipeline integrates semantic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Adam Dai , Asta Wu , Keidai Iiyama , Guillem Casadesus Vila , Kaila Coimbra , Thomas Deng , Grace Gao

Vehicle Re-identification is a challenging task due to intra-class variability and inter-class similarity across non-overlapping cameras. To tackle these problems, recently proposed methods require additional annotation to extract more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Quang Truong , Hy Dang , Zhankai Ye , Minh Nguyen , Bo Mei