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Current approaches to identifying driving heterogeneity face challenges in comprehending fundamental patterns from the perspective of underlying driving behavior mechanisms. The concept of Action phases was proposed in our previous work,…

The rapid development of automated driving systems in recent years has led to improvements in road safety and travel comfort. One typical function of these systems is Lane Keep Assist, which generally does not take human driving preferences…

Simulation has long been an essential part of testing autonomous driving systems, but only recently has simulation been useful for building and training self-driving vehicles. Vehicle behavioural models are necessary to simulate the…

Driving behavior monitoring plays a crucial role in managing road safety and decreasing the risk of traffic accidents. Driving behavior is affected by multiple factors like vehicle characteristics, types of roads, traffic, but, most…

The Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) is both the historical algorithm for multi-sensor fusion and still state of the art in numerous industrial applications. However, it may prove inconsistent in the presence of unobservability under a group of…

Predicting and planning interactive behaviors in complex traffic situations presents a challenging task. Especially in scenarios involving multiple traffic participants that interact densely, autonomous vehicles still struggle to interpret…

Understanding the merging behavior patterns at freeway on-ramps is important for assistanting the decisions of autonomous driving. This study develops a primitive-based framework to identify the driving patterns during merging processes and…

A primary difficulty with unsupervised discovery of structure in large data sets is a lack of quantitative evaluation criteria. In this work, we propose and investigate several metrics for evaluating and comparing generative models of…

Developing safety and efficiency applications for Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs) require a great deal of testing and evaluation. The need for the operation of these systems in critical and dangerous situations makes the burden of…

The computation required for a switching Kalman Filter (SKF) increases exponentially with the number of system operation modes. In this paper, a computationally tractable graph representation is proposed for a switching linear dynamic…

Human mobility clustering is an important problem for understanding human mobility behaviors (e.g., work and school commutes). Existing methods typically contain two steps: choosing or learning a mobility representation and applying a…

Mutual understanding between driver and vehicle is critically important to the design of intelligent vehicles and customized interaction interface. In this study, a unified driver behavior reasoning system toward multi-scale and multi-tasks…

Understanding the movement behaviours of individuals and the way they react to the external world is a key component of any problem that involves the modelling of human dynamics at a physical level. In particular, it is crucial to capture…

Urban intersections are prone to delays and inefficiencies due to static precedence rules and occlusions limiting the view on prioritized traffic. Existing approaches to improve traffic flow, widely known as automatic intersection…

We present simulations of congested traffic in circular and open systems with a non-local, gas-kinetic-based traffic model and a novel car-following model. The model parameters are all intuitive and can be easily calibrated. Micro- and…

We deal with the problem of deriving the microscopic equations governing the individual car motion based on the assumptions about the strategy of driver behavior. We suppose the driver behavior to be a result of a certain compromise between…

In this endeavor, we developed a comprehensive system that processes integrated visual features derived from video frames captured by a regular camera, along with depth details obtained from a point cloud scanner. This system is designed to…

Recent experimental and empirical observations have demonstrated that stochasticity plays a critical role in car following (CF) dynamics. To reproduce the observations, quite a few stochastic CF models have been proposed. However, while…

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…

Autonomous vehicles use a variety of sensors and machine-learned models to predict the behavior of surrounding road users. Most of the machine-learned models in the literature focus on quantitative error metrics like the root mean square…