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This paper presents a global trajectory optimization framework for minimizing lap time in autonomous racing under uncertain vehicle dynamics. Optimizing the trajectory over the full racing horizon is computationally expensive, and tracking…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Youngim Nam , Jungbin Kim , Kyungtae Kang , Cheolhyeon Kwon

Generating realistic and diverse trajectories is a critical challenge in autonomous driving simulation. While Large Language Models (LLMs) show promise, existing methods often rely on structured data like vectorized maps, which fail to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Mingxuan Mu , Guo Yang , Lei Chen , Ping Wu , Jianxun Cui

Long-tail and rare event problems become crucial when autonomous driving algorithms are applied in the real world. For the purpose of evaluating systems in challenging settings, we propose a generative framework to create safety-critical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Wenhao Ding , Baiming Chen , Minjun Xu , Ding Zhao

Coordination behavior in robot swarms is inherently multi-modal in nature. That is, there are numerous ways in which a swarm of robots can avoid inter-agent collisions and reach their respective goals. However, the problem of generating…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Simon Idoko , B. Bhanu Teja , K. Madhava Krishna , Arun Kumar Singh

We explore a data-driven approach for learning to optimize neural networks. We construct a dataset of neural network checkpoints and train a generative model on the parameters. In particular, our model is a conditional diffusion transformer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-27 William Peebles , Ilija Radosavovic , Tim Brooks , Alexei A. Efros , Jitendra Malik

Time-optimal trajectories drive quadrotors to their dynamic limits, but computing such trajectories involves solving non-convex problems via iterative nonlinear optimization, making them prohibitively costly for real-time applications. In…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Katherine Mao , Hongzhan Yu , Ruipeng Zhang , Igor Spasojevic , M Ani Hsieh , Sicun Gao , Vijay Kumar

Long time-duration low-thrust nonlinear optimal spacecraft trajectory global search is a computationally and time expensive problem characterized by clustering patterns in locally optimal solutions. During preliminary mission design,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-24 Jannik Graebner , Ryne Beeson

Safe trajectory planning in complex environments must balance stringent collision avoidance with real-time efficiency, which is a long-standing challenge in robotics. In this work, we present a diffusion-based trajectory planning framework…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Wule Mao , Zhouheng Li , Yunhao Luo , Yilun Du , Lei Xie

With the research into development of quadruped robots picking up pace, learning based techniques are being explored for developing locomotion controllers for such robots. A key problem is to generate leg trajectories for continuously…

We propose GoalFlow, an end-to-end autonomous driving method for generating high-quality multimodal trajectories. In autonomous driving scenarios, there is rarely a single suitable trajectory. Recent methods have increasingly focused on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Zebin Xing , Xingyu Zhang , Yang Hu , Bo Jiang , Tong He , Qian Zhang , Xiaoxiao Long , Wei Yin

Generative modeling has drawn much attention in creative and scientific data generation tasks. Score-based Diffusion Models, a type of generative model that iteratively learns to denoise data, have shown state-of-the-art results on tasks…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Tyler Presser , Agnimitra Dasgupta , Daniel Erwin , Assad Oberai

Visual navigation is fundamental to autonomous systems, yet generating reliable trajectories in cluttered and uncertain environments remains a core challenge. Recent generative models promise end-to-end synthesis, but their reliance on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Xubo Luo , Aodi Wu , Haodong Han , Xue Wan , Wei Zhang , Leizheng Shu , Ruisuo Wang

The availability of data is limited in some fields, especially for object detection tasks, where it is necessary to have correctly labeled bounding boxes around each object. A notable example of such data scarcity is found in the domain of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Matteo Paiano , Stefano Martina , Carlotta Giannelli , Filippo Caruso

Molecular dynamics (MD) is a powerful technique for studying microscopic phenomena, but its computational cost has driven significant interest in the development of deep learning-based surrogate models. We introduce generative modeling of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-09-27 Bowen Jing , Hannes Stärk , Tommi Jaakkola , Bonnie Berger

This paper introduces a novel numerical approach to achieving smooth lane-change trajectories in autonomous driving scenarios. Our trajectory generation approach leverages particle swarm optimization (PSO) techniques, incorporating Neural…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Lin Song , David Isele , Naira Hovakimyan , Sangjae Bae

Current autonomous driving systems often favor end-to-end frameworks, which take sensor inputs like images and learn to map them into trajectory space via neural networks. Previous work has demonstrated that models can achieve better…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Zebin Xing , Pengxuan Yang , Linbo Wang , Yichen Zhang , Yiming Hu , Yupeng Zheng , Junli Wang , Yinfeng Gao , Guang Li , Kun Ma , Long Chen , Zhongpu Xia , Qichao Zhang , Hangjun Ye , Dongbin Zhao

This paper presents a trajectory generation method for contact-constrained robotic systems such as manipulators and legged robots. Contact-constrained systems are affected by the interaction forces between the robot and the environment. In…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Jaemin Lee , Efstathios Bakolas , Luis Sentis

This paper presents a method and an open-source implementation, Bernstein/B\'ezier Optimal Trajectories (BeBOT), for the generation of trajectories for autonomous system operations. The proposed method is based on infinite dimensional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Calvin Kielas-Jensen , Venanzio Cichella

Navigating an arbitrary-shaped ground robot safely in cluttered environments remains a challenging problem. The existing trajectory planners that account for the robot's physical geometry severely suffer from the intractable runtime. To…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Yisheng Li , Longji Yin , Yixi Cai , Jianheng Liu , Fangcheng Zhu , Mingpu Ma , Siqi Liang , Haotian Li , Fu Zhang

Accumulating substantial volumes of real-world driving data proves pivotal in the realm of trajectory forecasting for autonomous driving. Given the heavy reliance of current trajectory forecasting models on data-driven methodologies, we aim…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Yiheng Li , Seth Z. Zhao , Chenfeng Xu , Chen Tang , Chenran Li , Mingyu Ding , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Wei Zhan