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Decision-making, motion planning, and trajectory prediction are crucial in autonomous driving systems. By accurately forecasting the movements of other road users, the decision-making capabilities of the autonomous system can be enhanced,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Mais Jamal , Aleksandr Panov

To drive safely in complex traffic environments, autonomous vehicles need to make an accurate prediction of the future trajectories of nearby heterogeneous traffic agents (i.e., vehicles, pedestrians, bicyclists, etc). Due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Zihao Sheng , Zilin Huang , Sikai Chen

To solve the problem of lateral and logitudinal joint decision-making of multi-vehicle cooperative driving for connected and automated vehicles (CAVs), this paper proposes a Monte Carlo tree search (MCTS) method with parallel update for…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Ye Han , Lijun Zhang , Dejian Meng , Zhuang Zhang , Xingyu Hu , Songyu Weng

Operation in a real world traffic requires autonomous vehicles to be able to plan their motion in complex environments (multiple moving participants). Planning through such environment requires the right search space to be provided for the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Jasprit Singh Gill , Pierluigi Pisu , Venkat N. Krovi , Matthias J. Schmid

Lane-free traffic environments allow vehicles to better harness the lateral capacity of the road without being restricted to lane-keeping, thereby increasing the traffic flow rates. As such, we have a distinct and more challenging setting…

Sampling-based motion planning is an effective tool to compute safe trajectories for automated vehicles in complex environments. However, a fast convergence to the optimal solution can only be ensured with the use of problem-specific…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Holger Banzhaf , Paul Sanzenbacher , Ulrich Baumann , J. Marius Zöllner

Autonomous cars have to navigate in dynamic environment which can be full of uncertainties. The uncertainties can come either from sensor limitations such as occlusions and limited sensor range, or from probabilistic prediction of other…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-06 Liting Sun , Wei Zhan , Ching-Yao Chan , Masayoshi Tomizuka

Planning the trajectory of the controlled ego vehicle is a key challenge in automated driving. As for human drivers, predicting the motions of surrounding vehicles is important to plan the own actions. Recent motion prediction methods…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Steffen Hagedorn , Marcel Milich , Alexandru P. Condurache

In this paper, we propose a search-based interactive motion planning scheme for autonomous vehicles (AVs), using a game-theoretic approach. In contrast to traditional search-based approaches, the newly developed approach considers other…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Pouya Panahandeh , Mohammad Pirani , Baris Fidan , Amir Khajepour

We propose an approach to simulating trajectories of multiple interacting agents (road users) based on transformers and probabilistic graphical models (PGMs), and apply it to the Waymo SimAgents challenge. The transformer baseline is based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Xinghua Lou , Meet Dave , Shrinu Kushagra , Miguel Lazaro-Gredilla , Kevin Murphy

Trajectory planning for autonomous driving is challenging because the unknown future motion of traffic participants must be accounted for, yielding large uncertainty. Stochastic Model Predictive Control (SMPC)-based planners provide…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-31 Tommaso Benciolini , Michael Fink , Nehir Güzelkaya , Dirk Wollherr , Marion Leibold

Urban traffic scenarios often require a high degree of cooperation between traffic participants to ensure safety and efficiency. Observing the behavior of others, humans infer whether or not others are cooperating. This work aims to extend…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Karl Kurzer , Florian Engelhorn , J. Marius Zöllner

Safe and interpretable motion planning in complex urban environments needs to reason about bidirectional multi-agent interactions. This reasoning requires to estimate the costs of potential ego driving maneuvers. Many existing planners…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Hang Yu , Julian Jordan , Julian Schmidt , Silvan Lindner , Alessandro Canevaro , Wilhelm Stork

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

While motion planning techniques for automated vehicles in a reactive and anticipatory manner are already widely presented, approaches to cooperative motion planning are still remaining. In this paper, we present an approach to enhance…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-08-24 Maximilian Naumann , Christoph Stiller

Motion planning for merging scenarios accounting for measurement and prediction uncertainties is a major challenge on the way to autonomous driving. Classical methods subdivide the motion planning into behavior and trajectory planning, thus…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-06 Johannes Müller , Michael Buchholz

Safe autonomous driving in mixed traffic requires a unified understanding of multimodal interactions and dynamic planning under uncertainty. Existing learning based approaches struggle to capture rare but safety critical behaviors, while…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Heye Huang , Yibin Yang , Mingfeng Fan , Haoran Wang , Xiaocong Zhao , Jianqiang Wang

Motion prediction and cost evaluation are vital components in the decision-making system of autonomous vehicles. However, existing methods often ignore the importance of cost learning and treat them as separate modules. In this study, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Zhiyu Huang , Peter Karkus , Boris Ivanovic , Yuxiao Chen , Marco Pavone , Chen Lv

We present a novel method for testing the safety of self-driving vehicles in simulation. We propose an alternative to sensor simulation, as sensor simulation is expensive and has large domain gaps. Instead, we directly simulate the outputs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Kelvin Wong , Qiang Zhang , Ming Liang , Bin Yang , Renjie Liao , Abbas Sadat , Raquel Urtasun

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) need to reason about the multimodal behavior of neighboring agents while planning their own motion. Many existing trajectory planners seek a single trajectory that performs well under \emph{all} plausible futures…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Yuxiao Chen , Peter Karkus , Boris Ivanovic , Xinshuo Weng , Marco Pavone