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Heavy vehicles (HVs) pose a significant challenge to maintaining a smooth traffic flow on the freeway because they are slower moving and create large blind spots. It is therefore desirable for the followers of HVs to perform lane changes…

Applications · Statistics 2025-09-16 Nachuan Li , Hani S. Mahmassani , Soyoung Ahn , Anupam Srivastava

This paper introduces a Multi-modal Diffusion model for Motion Prediction (MDMP) that integrates and synchronizes skeletal data and textual descriptions of actions to generate refined long-term motion predictions with quantifiable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Leo Bringer , Joey Wilson , Kira Barton , Maani Ghaffari

Trajectory prediction is crucial to advance autonomous driving, improving safety, and efficiency. Although end-to-end models based on deep learning have great potential, they often do not consider vehicle dynamic limitations, leading to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Alexander Fertig , Lakshman Balasubramanian , Michael Botsch

Modern weather forecast models perform uncertainty quantification using ensemble prediction systems, which collect nonparametric statistics based on multiple perturbed simulations. To provide accurate estimation, dozens of such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Peter Grönquist , Tal Ben-Nun , Nikoli Dryden , Peter Dueben , Luca Lavarini , Shigang Li , Torsten Hoefler

In safety-critical Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), accurate trajectory prediction provides vital guidance for downstream planning and control, yet although deep learning models achieve high-fidelity forecasts on validation data, their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Tongfei Guo , Lili Su

Autonomous systems, like vehicles or robots, require reliable, accurate, fast, resource-efficient, scalable, and low-latency trajectory predictions to get initial knowledge about future locations and movements of surrounding objects for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Manuel Hetzel , Hannes Reichert , Konrad Doll , Bernhard Sick

Controllable and realistic traffic simulation is critical for developing and verifying autonomous vehicles. Typical heuristic-based traffic models offer flexible control to make vehicles follow specific trajectories and traffic rules. On…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Ziyuan Zhong , Davis Rempe , Danfei Xu , Yuxiao Chen , Sushant Veer , Tong Che , Baishakhi Ray , Marco Pavone

Achieving both safety guarantees and real-time performance in cooperative vehicle coordination remains a fundamental challenge, particularly in dynamic and uncertain environments. Existing methods often suffer from insufficient uncertainty…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Haojie Bai , Tingting Zhang , Cong Guo , Yang Wang , Xiongwei Zhao , Hai Zhu

This paper presents a novel approach to improving autonomous vehicle control in environments lacking clear road markings by integrating a diffusion-based motion predictor within an Active Inference Framework (AIF). Using a simulated parking…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Yufei Huang , Yulin Li , Andrea Matta , Mohsen Jafari

Visual traversability estimation is critical for autonomous navigation, but existing VLM-based methods rely on hand-crafted prompts, generalize poorly across embodiments, and output only traversability maps, leaving trajectory generation to…

Recent advances in diffusion models have demonstrated their strong capabilities in generating high-fidelity samples from complex distributions through an iterative refinement process. Despite the empirical success of diffusion models in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Chaoyi Pan , Zeji Yi , Guanya Shi , Guannan Qu

Realistic scene-level multi-agent motion simulations are crucial for developing and evaluating self-driving algorithms. However, most existing works focus on generating trajectories for a certain single agent type, and typically ignore the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Zhiming Guo , Xing Gao , Jianlan Zhou , Xinyu Cai , Botian Shi

Recently, the diffusion model has emerged as a powerful generative technique for robotic policy learning, capable of modeling multi-mode action distributions. Leveraging its capability for end-to-end autonomous driving is a promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Bencheng Liao , Shaoyu Chen , Haoran Yin , Bo Jiang , Cheng Wang , Sixu Yan , Xinbang Zhang , Xiangyu Li , Ying Zhang , Qian Zhang , Xinggang Wang

Path planning for a robotic system in high-dimensional cluttered environments needs to be efficient, safe, and adaptable for different environments and hardware. Conventional methods face high computation time and require extensive…

Diffusion models have shown promising capabilities in trajectory generation for planning in offline reinforcement learning (RL). However, conventional diffusion-based planning methods often fail to account for the fact that generating…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Hanping Zhang , Yuhong Guo

In this paper, we introduce a novel approach for autonomous driving trajectory generation by harnessing the complementary strengths of diffusion probabilistic models (a.k.a., diffusion models) and transformers. Our proposed framework,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Chen Yang , Yangfan He , Aaron Xuxiang Tian , Dong Chen , Jianhui Wang , Tianyu Shi , Arsalan Heydarian , Pei Liu

Accurate prediction of future agent trajectories is a critical challenge for ensuring safe and efficient autonomous navigation, particularly in complex urban environments characterized by multiple plausible future scenarios. In this paper,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Haichuan Li , Tomi Westerlund

Accurate trajectory prediction and motion planning are crucial for autonomous driving systems to navigate safely in complex, interactive environments characterized by multimodal uncertainties. However, current generation-then-evaluation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Ruiguo Zhong , Ruoyu Yao , Pei Liu , Xiaolong Chen , Rui Yang , Jun Ma

Predicting pedestrian crossing intentions is crucial for the navigation of mobile robots and intelligent vehicles. Although recent deep learning-based models have shown significant success in forecasting intentions, few consider incomplete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yu Liu , Zhijie Liu , Zedong Yang , You-Fu Li , He Kong

Diffusion models excel at creating images and videos thanks to their multimodal generative capabilities. These same capabilities have made diffusion models increasingly popular in robotics research, where they are used for generating robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Jean-Baptiste Bouvier , Kanghyun Ryu , Kartik Nagpal , Qiayuan Liao , Koushil Sreenath , Negar Mehr