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In this paper, we address the issue of increasing the performance of reinforcement learning (RL) solutions for autonomous racing cars when navigating under conditions where practical vehicle modelling errors (commonly known as \emph{model…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Andrew Murdoch , Johannes Cornelius Schoeman , Hendrik Willem Jordaan

In recent years, autonomous parking has made significant advances, yet parking tasks still face challenges in extreme scenarios such as mechanical and dead-end parking slots, often resulting in failures. This is mainly due to traditional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Changze Li , Zhe Chen , Shaoyu Chen , Lisen Mu , Yijian Li , Yuelong Yu , Qian Zhang , Qing Su , Ming Yang , Tong Qin

Focusing on the task of point-to-point navigation for an autonomous driving vehicle, we propose a novel deep learning model trained with end-to-end and multi-task learning manners to perform both perception and control tasks simultaneously.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Oskar Natan , Jun Miura

Navigating through intersections is one of the main challenging tasks for an autonomous vehicle. However, for the majority of intersections regulated by traffic lights, the problem could be solved by a simple rule-based method in which the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Alessandro Paolo Capasso , Paolo Maramotti , Anthony Dell'Eva , Alberto Broggi

In recent years, end-to-end autonomous driving architectures have gained increasing attention due to their advantage in avoiding error accumulation. Most existing end-to-end autonomous driving methods are based on Imitation Learning (IL),…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Yueyuan Li , Mingyang Jiang , Songan Zhang , Wei Yuan , Chunxiang Wang , Ming Yang

A safe and efficient decision-making system is crucial for autonomous vehicles. However, the complexity of driving environments limits the effectiveness of many rule-based and machine learning approaches. Reinforcement Learning (RL), with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Rongliang Zhou , Jiakun Huang , Mingjun Li , Hepeng Li , Haotian Cao , Xiaolin Song

Current deep learning based autonomous driving approaches yield impressive results also leading to in-production deployment in certain controlled scenarios. One of the most popular and fascinating approaches relies on learning vehicle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Luca Cultrera , Lorenzo Seidenari , Federico Becattini , Pietro Pala , Alberto Del Bimbo

End-to-end autonomous driving requires adaptive and robust handling of complex and diverse traffic environments. However, prevalent single-mode planning methods attempt to learn an overall policy while struggling to acquire diversified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Chi Wan , Yixin Cui , Jiatong Du , Shuo Yang , Yulong Bai , Peng Yi , Nan Li , Yanjun Huang

End-to-End driving is a promising paradigm as it circumvents the drawbacks associated with modular systems, such as their overwhelming complexity and propensity for error propagation. Autonomous driving transcends conventional traffic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Pranav Singh Chib , Pravendra Singh

Data driven approaches for decision making applied to automated driving require appropriate generalization strategies, to ensure applicability to the world's variability. Current approaches either do not generalize well beyond the training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Karl Kurzer , Philip Schörner , Alexander Albers , Hauke Thomsen , Karam Daaboul , J. Marius Zöllner

We present an end-to-end imitation learning system for agile, off-road autonomous driving using only low-cost sensors. By imitating a model predictive controller equipped with advanced sensors, we train a deep neural network control policy…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-12 Yunpeng Pan , Ching-An Cheng , Kamil Saigol , Keuntaek Lee , Xinyan Yan , Evangelos Theodorou , Byron Boots

End-to-end autonomous driving systems, predominantly trained through imitation learning, have demonstrated considerable effectiveness in leveraging large-scale expert driving data. Despite their success in open-loop evaluations, these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Yi Huang , Zhan Qu , Lihui Jiang , Bingbing Liu , Hongbo Zhang

Sampling-based motion planning is a well-established approach in autonomous driving, valued for its modularity and analytical tractability. In complex urban scenarios, however, uniform or heuristic sampling often produces many infeasible or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Korbinian Moller , Roland Stroop , Mattia Piccinini , Alexander Langmann , Johannes Betz

Reinforcement Learning (RL) can mitigate the causal confusion and distribution shift inherent to imitation learning (IL). However, applying RL to end-to-end autonomous driving (E2E-AD) remains an open problem for its training difficulty,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Zhenjie Yang , Xiaosong Jia , Qifeng Li , Xue Yang , Maoqing Yao , Junchi Yan

Designing a driving policy for autonomous vehicles is a difficult task. Recent studies suggested an end-toend (E2E) training of a policy to predict car actuators directly from raw sensory inputs. It is appealing due to the ease of labeled…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Yonatan Glassner , Liran Gispan , Ariel Ayash , Tal Furman Shohet

Autonomous driving has made significant strides through data-driven techniques, achieving robust performance in standardized tasks. However, existing methods frequently overlook user-specific preferences, offering limited scope for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Chengkai Xu , Jiaqi Liu , Yicheng Guo , Yuhang Zhang , Peng Hang , Jian Sun

Ensuring both safety and efficiency in decision-making for autonomous driving systems remains a fundamental challenge. Traditional Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) suffers from unsafe random exploration and slow convergence, while Large…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Kangyu Wu , Peng Cui , Guoxi Chen , Ya Zhang

Automated lane changing is a critical feature for advanced autonomous driving systems. In recent years, reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms trained on traffic simulators yielded successful results in computing lane changing policies that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Anil Ozturk , Mustafa Burak Gunel , Melih Dal , Ugur Yavas , Nazim Kemal Ure

Efficient and effective exploration in continuous space is a central problem in applying reinforcement learning (RL) to autonomous driving. Skills learned from expert demonstrations or designed for specific tasks can benefit the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Tong Zhou , Letian Wang , Ruobing Chen , Wenshuo Wang , Yu Liu

The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into autonomous driving systems demonstrates strong common sense and reasoning abilities, effectively addressing the pitfalls of purely data-driven methods. Current LLM-based agents require…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Sihao Wu , Jiaxu Liu , Xiangyu Yin , Guangliang Cheng , Xingyu Zhao , Meng Fang , Xinping Yi , Xiaowei Huang