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Policies developed through Reinforcement Learning (RL) and Imitation Learning (IL) have shown great potential in continuous control tasks, but real-world applications often require adapting trained policies to unforeseen requirements. While…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Pengcheng Wang , Chenran Li , Catherine Weaver , Kenta Kawamoto , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Chen Tang , Wei Zhan

The Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) problem aims to find collision-free paths for multiple agents while optimizing objectives such as the sum of costs or makespan. MAPF has wide applications in domains like automated warehouses,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Jingtian Yan , Shuai Zhou , Stephen F. Smith , Jiaoyang Li

Reinforcement learning has received high research interest for developing planning approaches in automated driving. Most prior works consider the end-to-end planning task that yields direct control commands and rarely deploy their algorithm…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Marvin Klimke , Benjamin Völz , Michael Buchholz

In this work the problem of path planning for an autonomous vehicle that moves on a freeway is considered. The most common approaches that are used to address this problem are based on optimal control methods, which make assumptions about…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Konstantinos Makantasis , Maria Kontorinaki , Ioannis Nikolos

Online map matching is a fundamental problem in location-based services, aiming to incrementally match trajectory data step-by-step onto a road network. However, existing methods fail to meet the needs for efficiency, robustness, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Minxiao Chen , Haitao Yuan , Nan Jiang , Zhihan Zheng , Sai Wu , Ao Zhou , Shangguang Wang

We study learning control in an online reset-free lifelong learning scenario, where mistakes can compound catastrophically into the future and the underlying dynamics of the environment may change. Traditional model-free policy learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Kevin Lu , Igor Mordatch , Pieter Abbeel

It is critical to predict the motion of surrounding vehicles for self-driving planning, especially in a socially compliant and flexible way. However, future prediction is challenging due to the interaction and uncertainty in driving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Haoran Song , Wenchao Ding , Yuxuan Chen , Shaojie Shen , Michael Yu Wang , Qifeng Chen

Multi-robot path finding in dynamic environments is a highly challenging classic problem. In the movement process, robots need to avoid collisions with other moving robots while minimizing their travel distance. Previous methods for this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Shaoming Peng

We study online Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF), where new agents are constantly revealed over time and all agents must find collision-free paths to their given goal locations. We generalize existing complexity results of (offline) MAPF to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Hang Ma

Shared autonomy provides an effective framework for human-robot collaboration that takes advantage of the complementary strengths of humans and robots to achieve common goals. Many existing approaches to shared autonomy make restrictive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Charles Schaff , Matthew R. Walter

End-to-end learning for autonomous navigation has received substantial attention recently as a promising method for reducing modeling error. However, its data complexity, especially around generalization to unseen environments, is high. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Xiangyun Meng , Nathan Ratliff , Yu Xiang , Dieter Fox

In recent years, end-to-end autonomous driving has attracted increasing attention for its ability to jointly model perception, prediction, and planning within a unified framework. However, most existing approaches underutilize the online…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Huilin Yin , Yiming Kan , Daniel Watzenig

Widespread development of driverless vehicles has led to the formation of autonomous racing, where technological development is accelerated by the high speeds and competitive environment of motorsport. A particular challenge for an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Sam Garlick , Andrew Bradley

In this paper, we present a receding-horizon, sampling-based planner capable of reasoning over multimodal policy distributions. By using the cross-entropy method to optimize a multimodal policy under a common cost function, our approach…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Mark Gonzales , Ethan Oh , Joseph Moore

We study a novel graph path planning problem for multiple agents that may crash at runtime, and block part of the workspace. In our setting, agents can detect neighboring crashed agents, and change followed paths at runtime. The objective…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Keisuke Okumura , Sébastien Tixeuil

We study the problem of optimizing a guidance policy capable of dynamically guiding the agents for lifelong Multi-Agent Path Finding based on real-time traffic patterns. Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) focuses on moving multiple agents from…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Hongzhi Zang , Yulun Zhang , He Jiang , Zhe Chen , Daniel Harabor , Peter J. Stuckey , Jiaoyang Li

Well-established optimization-based methods can guarantee an optimal trajectory for a short optimization horizon, typically no longer than a few seconds. As a result, choosing the optimal trajectory for this short horizon may still result…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Branka Mirchevska , Maria Hügle , Gabriel Kalweit , Moritz Werling , Joschka Boedecker

Autonomous robots are widely utilized for mapping and exploration tasks due to their cost-effectiveness. Multi-robot systems offer scalability and efficiency, especially in terms of the number of robots deployed in more complex…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Apoorva Vashisth , Manav Kulshrestha , Damon Conover , Aniket Bera

Multi-agent path planning (MAPP) is the problem of planning collision-free trajectories from start to goal locations for a team of agents. This work explores a relatively unexplored setting of MAPP where streams of agents have to go through…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Kazumi Kasaura , Ryo Yonetani , Mai Nishimura

Conventional trajectory planning approaches for autonomous vehicles often assume a fixed vehicle model that remains constant regardless of the vehicle's location. This overlooks the critical fact that the tires and the surface are the two…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Frederik Werner , Ann-Kathrin Schwehn , Markus Lienkamp , Johannes Betz