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Autonomous mobile robots require accurate human motion predictions to safely and efficiently navigate among pedestrians, whose behavior may adapt to environmental changes. This paper introduces a self-supervised continual learning framework…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Luzia Knoedler , Chadi Salmi , Hai Zhu , Bruno Brito , Javier Alonso-Mora

Humans use spatial language to naturally describe object locations and their relations. Interpreting spatial language not only adds a perceptual modality for robots, but also reduces the barrier of interfacing with humans. Previous work…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Kaiyu Zheng , Deniz Bayazit , Rebecca Mathew , Ellie Pavlick , Stefanie Tellex

In this paper, a multi-modal 360$^{\circ}$ framework for 3D object detection and tracking for autonomous vehicles is presented. The process is divided into four main stages. First, images are fed into a CNN network to obtain instance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Jorge Beltrán , Carlos Guindel , Irene Cortés , Alejandro Barrera , Armando Astudillo , Jesús Urdiales , Mario Álvarez , Farid Bekka , Vicente Milanés , Fernando García

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

Recent advances in end-to-end autonomous driving show that policies trained on patch-aligned features extracted from foundation models generalize better to Out-of-Distribution (OOD). We hypothesize that due to the self-attention mechanism,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Amir Mallak , Erfan Aasi , Shiva Sreeram , Tsun-Hsuan Wang , Daniela Rus , Alaa Maalouf

Robotic systems must be able to quickly and robustly make decisions when operating in uncertain and dynamic environments. While Reinforcement Learning (RL) can be used to compute optimal policies with little prior knowledge about the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-09-13 Yunpeng Pan , Xinyan Yan , Evangelos Theodorou , Byron Boots

Autonomous driving technology can improve traffic safety and reduce traffic accidents. In addition, it improves traffic flow, reduces congestion, saves energy and increases travel efficiency. In the relatively mature automatic driving…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Wenjian Sun , Linying Pan , Jingyu Xu , Weixiang Wan , Yong Wang

Autonomous vehicles necessitate a delicate balance between safety, efficiency, and user preferences in trajectory planning. Existing traditional or learning-based methods face challenges in adequately addressing all these aspects. In…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Yuejiao Xu , Ruolin Wang , Chengpeng Xu , Jianmin Ji

End-to-end autonomous driving systems powered by Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models achieve strong performance on common driving scenarios, yet remain brittle in rare but safety-critical long-tail situations such as active construction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ruiyang Zhu , Yuehan He , Boyuan Zheng , Zesen Zhao , Ahmad Chalhoub , Qingzhao Zhang , Z. Morley Mao

Practical autonomous driving systems face two crucial challenges: memory constraints and domain gap issues. In this paper, we present a novel approach to learn domain adaptive knowledge in models with limited memory, thus bestowing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Divya Kothandaraman , Athira Nambiar , Anurag Mittal

Trajectory prediction is central to the safe and seamless operation of autonomous vehicles (AVs). In deployment, however, prediction models inevitably face distribution shifts between training data and real-world conditions, where rare or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Tongfei Guo , Lili Su

Mapping is essential in robotics and autonomous systems because it provides the spatial foundation for path planning. Efficient mapping enables planning algorithms to generate reliable paths while ensuring safety and adapting in real time…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Yihui Mao , Tian Tan , Xuehui Shen , Warren E. Dixon , Rushikesh Kamalapurkar

The goal of autonomous vehicles is to navigate public roads safely and comfortably. To enforce safety, traditional planning approaches rely on handcrafted rules to generate trajectories. Machine learning-based systems, on the other hand,…

Trajectory planning is a critical component in ensuring the safety, stability, and efficiency of autonomous vehicles. While existing trajectory planning methods have achieved progress, they often suffer from high computational costs,…

Accurate prediction is important for operating an autonomous vehicle in interactive scenarios. Prediction must be fast, to support multiple requests from a planner exploring a range of possible futures. The generated predictions must…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Anthony Knittel , Majd Hawasly , Stefano V. Albrecht , John Redford , Subramanian Ramamoorthy

Recently significant progress has been made in vehicle prediction and planning algorithms for autonomous driving. However, it remains quite challenging for an autonomous vehicle to plan its trajectory in complex scenarios when it is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Xiangguo Liu , Ruochen Jiao , Yixuan Wang , Yimin Han , Bowen Zheng , Qi Zhu

Self-supervised learning has driven significant progress in learning from single-subject, iconic images. However, there are still unanswered questions about the use of minimally-curated, naturalistic video data, which contain dense scenes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Alex N. Wang , Christopher Hoang , Yuwen Xiong , Yann LeCun , Mengye Ren

Model-free learning-based control methods have recently shown significant advantages over traditional control methods in avoiding complex vehicle characteristic estimation and parameter tuning. As a primary policy learning method, imitation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-29 C. Gong , C. Lu , Z. Li , Z. Liu , J. Gong , X. Chen

This paper introduces SmartBSP, an advanced self-supervised learning framework for real-time path planning and obstacle avoidance in autonomous robotics navigating through complex environments. The proposed system integrates Proximal Policy…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Shahab Shokouhi , Oguzhan Oruc , May-Win Thein

Autonomous cars have to navigate in dynamic environment which can be full of uncertainties. The uncertainties can come either from sensor limitations such as occlusions and limited sensor range, or from probabilistic prediction of other…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-06 Liting Sun , Wei Zhan , Ching-Yao Chan , Masayoshi Tomizuka