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Conducting real road testing for autonomous driving algorithms can be expensive and sometimes impractical, particularly for small startups and research institutes. Thus, simulation becomes an important method for evaluating these…

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

While supervised learning is widely used for perception modules in conventional autonomous driving solutions, scalability is hindered by the huge amount of data labeling needed. In contrast, while end-to-end architectures do not require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Elmira Amirloo , Mohsen Rohani , Ershad Banijamali , Jun Luo , Pascal Poupart

Data-driven simulation has become a favorable way to train and test autonomous driving algorithms. The idea of replacing the actual environment with a learned simulator has also been explored in model-based reinforcement learning in the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Zhejun Zhang , Alexander Liniger , Dengxin Dai , Fisher Yu , Luc Van Gool

Autonomous driving has become one of the most popular research topics within Artificial Intelligence. An autonomous vehicle is understood as a system that combines perception, decision-making, planning, and control. All of those tasks…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Mariana Pinto , Inês Dutra , Joaquim Fonseca

In this paper, we propose a path re-planning algorithm that makes robots able to work in scenarios with moving obstacles. The algorithm switches between a set of pre-computed paths to avoid collisions with moving obstacles. It also improves…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Cesare Tonola , Marco Faroni , Nicola Pedrocchi , Manuel Beschi

In fast-paced, ever-changing environments, dynamic Motion Planning for Multi-Agent Systems in the presence of obstacles is a universal and unsolved problem. Be it from path planning around obstacles to the movement of robotic arms, or in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Brandon Ho , Batuhan Altundas , Matthew Gombolay

In the research of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), traffic simulation is a key procedure for the evaluation of new methods and optimization of strategies. However, existing traffic simulation systems face two challenges. First,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Jun Zhang , Wenxuan Ao , Junbo Yan , Can Rong , Depeng Jin , Wei Wu , Yong Li

With the fast development of driving automation technologies, user psychological acceptance of driving automation has become one of the major obstacles to the adoption of the driving automation technology. The most basic function of a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Weishun Deng , Fan Yu , Zhe Wang , Dengbo He

Motion planning is crucial for safe navigation in complex urban environments. Historically, motion planners (MPs) have been evaluated with procedurally-generated simulators like CARLA. However, such synthetic benchmarks do not capture…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Arun Balajee Vasudevan , Neehar Peri , Jeff Schneider , Deva Ramanan

Indoor motion planning focuses on solving the problem of navigating an agent through a cluttered environment. To date, quite a lot of work has been done in this field, but these methods often fail to find the optimal balance between…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Shivam Sood , Jaskaran Singh Sodhi , Parv Maheshwari , Karan Uppal , Debashish Chakravarty

Real-time perception and motion planning are two crucial tasks for autonomous driving. While there are many research works focused on improving the performance of perception and motion planning individually, it is still not clear how a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Zhanhong Huang , Xiao Zhang , Xinming Huang

Recently, there has been a wealth of development in motion planning for robotic manipulation new motion planners are continuously proposed, each with their own unique strengths and weaknesses. However, evaluating new planners is challenging…

In order to solve complex, long-horizon tasks, intelligent robots need to carry out high-level, abstract planning and reasoning in conjunction with motion planning. However, abstract models are typically lossy and plans or policies computed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Naman Shah , Siddharth Srivastava

Mobile robots are often tasked with repeatedly navigating through an environment whose traversability changes over time. These changes may exhibit some hidden structure, which can be learned. Many studies consider reactive algorithms for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Florence Tsang , Tristan Walker , Ryan A. MacDonald , Armin Sadeghi , Stephen L. Smith

During the past decade, smart mobility and intelligent vehicles have attracted increasing attention, because they promise to create a highly efficient and safe transportation system in the future. Meanwhile, digital twin, as an emerging…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Kui Wang , Zongdian Li , Tao Yu , Kei Sakaguchi

With the development of autonomous driving, it is becoming increasingly common for autonomous vehicles (AVs) and human-driven vehicles (HVs) to travel on the same roads. Existing single-vehicle planning algorithms on board struggle to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Licheng Wen , Pinlong Cai , Daocheng Fu , Song Mao , Yikang Li

Current visual navigation systems often treat the environment as static, lacking the ability to adaptively interact with obstacles. This limitation leads to navigation failure when encountering unavoidable obstructions. In response, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Philipp Schoch , Fan Yang , Yuntao Ma , Stefan Leutenegger , Marco Hutter , Quentin Leboutet

Autonomous driving technologies have achieved significant advances in recent years, yet their real-world deployment remains constrained by data scarcity, safety requirements, and the need for generalization across diverse environments. In…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-06 A. Humnabadkar , A. Sikdar , B. Cave , H. Zhang , N. Bessis , A. Behera

Achieving fully autonomous driving systems requires learning rational decisions in a wide span of scenarios, including safety-critical and out-of-distribution ones. However, such cases are underrepresented in real-world corpus collected by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Haochen Tian , Tianyu Li , Haochen Liu , Jiazhi Yang , Yihang Qiu , Guang Li , Junli Wang , Yinfeng Gao , Zhang Zhang , Liang Wang , Hangjun Ye , Tieniu Tan , Long Chen , Hongyang Li