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To plan safe maneuvers and act with foresight, autonomous vehicles must be capable of accurately predicting the uncertain future. In the context of autonomous driving, deep neural networks have been successfully applied to learning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Salar Arbabi , Davide Tavernini , Saber Fallah , Richard Bowden

Trajectory prediction and planning are fundamental yet disconnected components in autonomous driving. Prediction models forecast surrounding agent motion under unknown intentions, producing multimodal distributions, while planning assumes…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Constantin Selzer , Fabina B. Flohr

The conditional diffusion model has been demonstrated as an efficient tool for learning robot policies, owing to its advancement to accurately model the conditional distribution of policies. The intricate nature of real-world scenarios,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Wenhao Yu , Jie Peng , Huanyu Yang , Junrui Zhang , Yifan Duan , Jianmin Ji , Yanyong Zhang

Scene flow estimation is an essential ingredient for a variety of real-world applications, especially for autonomous agents, such as self-driving cars and robots. While recent scene flow estimation approaches achieve a reasonable accuracy,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Yushan Zhang , Bastian Wandt , Maria Magnusson , Michael Felsberg

Merging into dense highway traffic for an autonomous vehicle is a complex decision-making task, wherein the vehicle must identify a potential gap and coordinate with surrounding human drivers, each of whom may exhibit diverse driving…

Navigating dense and dynamic environments poses a significant challenge for autonomous driving systems, owing to the intricate nature of multimodal interaction, wherein the actions of various traffic participants and the autonomous vehicle…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Tong Li , Lu Zhang , Sikang Liu , Shaojie Shen

Offline reinforcement learning (RL) aims to learn policies from pre-existing datasets without further interactions, making it a challenging task. Q-learning algorithms struggle with extrapolation errors in offline settings, while supervised…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Zhengbang Zhu , Minghuan Liu , Liyuan Mao , Bingyi Kang , Minkai Xu , Yong Yu , Stefano Ermon , Weinan Zhang

In order to drive safely on the road, autonomous vehicle is expected to predict future outcomes of its surrounding environment and react properly. In fact, many researchers have been focused on solving behavioral prediction problems for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Weihao Xuan , Ruijie Ren

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly adopted in modern communication networks. However, challenges in decision-making and digital modeling continue to impede their rapid advancement. Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms face…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Yousef Emami , Hao Zhou , Luis Almeida , Kai Li

End-to-end autonomous driving (E2E-AD) has rapidly emerged as a promising approach toward achieving full autonomy. However, existing E2E-AD systems typically adopt a traditional multi-task framework, addressing perception, prediction, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Tao Wang , Cong Zhang , Xingguang Qu , Kun Li , Weiwei Liu , Chang Huang

It is crucial to ask how agents can achieve goals by generating action plans using only partial models of the world acquired through habituated sensory-motor experiences. Although many existing robotics studies use a forward model…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Takazumi Matsumoto , Jun Tani

Motion planning in dynamic urban environments requires balancing immediate safety with long-term goals. While diffusion models effectively capture multi-modal decision-making, existing approaches treat trajectories as monolithic entities,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Xiang Li , Bikun Wang , John Zhang , Jianjun Wang

Unlike discriminative approaches in autonomous driving that predict a fixed set of candidate trajectories of the ego vehicle, generative methods, such as diffusion models, learn the underlying distribution of future motion, enabling more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Liuhan Yin , Runkun Ju , Guodong Guo , Erkang Cheng

Decision-making in dense traffic scenarios is challenging for automated vehicles (AVs) due to potentially stochastic behaviors of other traffic participants and perception uncertainties (e.g., tracking noise and prediction errors, etc.).…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Lu Zhang , Wenchao Ding , Jing Chen , Shaojie Shen

Motion forecasting for autonomous driving is a challenging task because complex driving scenarios result in a heterogeneous mix of static and dynamic inputs. It is an open problem how best to represent and fuse information about road…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Nigamaa Nayakanti , Rami Al-Rfou , Aurick Zhou , Kratarth Goel , Khaled S. Refaat , Benjamin Sapp

End-to-end motion planning is promising for simplifying complex autonomous driving pipelines. However, challenges such as scene understanding and effective prediction for decision-making continue to present substantial obstacles to its…

The feasibility of collecting a large amount of expert demonstrations has inspired growing research interests in learning-to-drive settings, where models learn by imitating the driving behaviour from experts. However, exclusively relying on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Jonathan Francis , Bingqing Chen , Weiran Yao , Eric Nyberg , Jean Oh

Diffusion models have demonstrated strong capabilities for modeling human-like driving behaviors in autonomous driving, but their iterative sampling process induces substantial latency, and operating directly on raw trajectory points forces…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Jinhao Zhang , Wenlong Xia , Zhexuan Zhou , Haoming Song , Youmin Gong , Jie Mei

Simulating diverse and realistic traffic scenarios is critical for developing and testing autonomous planning. Traditional rule-based planners lack diversity and realism, while learning-based simulators often replay, forecast, or edit…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Da Saem Lee , Akash Karthikeyan , Yash Vardhan Pant , Sebastian Fischmeister

We introduce DriveAgent, a novel multi-agent autonomous driving framework that leverages large language model (LLM) reasoning combined with multimodal sensor fusion to enhance situational understanding and decision-making. DriveAgent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Xinmeng Hou , Wuqi Wang , Long Yang , Hao Lin , Jinglun Feng , Haigen Min , Xiangmo Zhao