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The purpose of this paper is to explore a new way of autonomous mapping. Current systems using perception techniques like LAZER or SONAR use probabilistic methods and have a drawback of allowing considerable uncertainty in the mapping…

Robotics · Computer Science 2013-12-16 Amiraj Dhawan , Parag Oak , Rahul Mishra , George Puthanpurackal

Recent advancements in self-driving car technologies have enabled them to navigate autonomously through various environments. However, one of the critical challenges in autonomous vehicle operation is trajectory planning, especially in…

Current autonomous driving systems are composed of a perception system and a decision system. Both of them are divided into multiple subsystems built up with lots of human heuristics. An end-to-end approach might clean up the system and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Jianyu Chen , Zhuo Xu , Masayoshi Tomizuka

Occlusion-aware prediction remains a critical challenge in autonomous driving due to the inherent uncertainty of unobserved regions. Existing approaches either overestimate risk based on reachable states or struggle to predict accurate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Jie Jia , Yaofeng Su , Zeyu Bao , Yun Hong , Bingzhao Gao , Zhongxue Gan , Wenchao Ding

While classical autonomous navigation systems can typically move robots from one point to another safely and in a collision-free manner, these systems may fail or produce suboptimal behavior in certain scenarios. The current practice in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Zizhao Wang , Xuesu Xiao , Bo Liu , Garrett Warnell , Peter Stone

Most existing approaches to autonomous driving fall into one of two categories: modular pipelines, that build an extensive model of the environment, and imitation learning approaches, that map images directly to control outputs. A recently…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Axel Sauer , Nikolay Savinov , Andreas Geiger

Autonomous driving is a multi-task problem requiring a deep understanding of the visual environment. End-to-end autonomous systems have attracted increasing interest as a method of learning to drive without exhaustively programming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Alexander Makrigiorgos , Ali Shafti , Alex Harston , Julien Gerard , A. Aldo Faisal

Autonomous racing is a challenging problem, as the vehicle needs to operate at the friction or handling limits in order to achieve minimum lap times. Autonomous race cars require highly accurate perception, state estimation, planning and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Dvij Kalaria , Qin Lin , John M. Dolan

Autonomous driving vehicles with self-learning capabilities are expected to evolve in complex environments to improve their ability to cope with different scenarios. However, most self-learning algorithms suffer from low learning efficiency…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Shuo Yang , Caojun Wang , Zhenyu Ma , Yanjun Huang , Hong Chen

Learning navigation capabilities in different environments has long been one of the major challenges in decision-making. In this work, we focus on zero-shot navigation ability using given abstract $2$-D top-down maps. Like human navigation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Linfeng Zhao , Lawson L. S. Wong

Robot navigation traditionally relies on building an explicit map that is used to plan collision-free trajectories to a desired target. In deformable, complex terrain, using geometric-based approaches can fail to find a path due to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Adam Polevoy , Craig Knuth , Katie M. Popek , Kapil D. Katyal

Limited power and computational resources, absence of high-end sensor equipment and GPS-denied environments are challenges faced by autonomous micro areal vehicles (MAVs). We address these challenges in the context of autonomous navigation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Max Christl

In this paper, a self-learning approach is proposed towards solving scene-specific pedestrian detection problem without any human' annotation involved. The self-learning approach is deployed as progressive steps of object discovery, object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-24 Qixiang Ye , Tianliang Zhang , Qiang Qiu , Baochang Zhang , Jie Chen , Guillermo Sapiro

Navigating through unstructured environments is a basic capability of intelligent creatures, and thus is of fundamental interest in the study and development of artificial intelligence. Long-range navigation is a complex cognitive task that…

Driving energy consumption plays a major role in the navigation of mobile robots in challenging environments, especially if they are left to operate unattended under limited on-board power. This paper reports on first results of an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Marco Visca , Arthur Bouton , Roger Powell , Yang Gao , Saber Fallah

A major challenge with off-road autonomous navigation is the lack of maps or road markings that can be used to plan a path for autonomous robots. Classical path planning methods mostly assume a perfectly known environment without accounting…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Charles Moore , Shaswata Mitra , Nisha Pillai , Marc Moore , Sudip Mittal , Cindy Bethel , Jingdao Chen

Fine localization in autonomous driving platforms is a task of broad interest, receiving much attention in recent years. Some localization algorithms use the Euclidean distance as a similarity measure between the local image acquired by a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-12 Samuel Todd Flanagan , Drupad K. Khublani , Jean-Francois Chamberland , Siddharth Agarwal , Ankit Vora

Occupancy prediction reconstructs 3D structures of surrounding environments. It provides detailed information for autonomous driving planning and navigation. However, most existing methods heavily rely on the LiDAR point clouds to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Chubin Zhang , Juncheng Yan , Yi Wei , Jiaxin Li , Li Liu , Yansong Tang , Yueqi Duan , Jiwen Lu

The world is filled with a wide variety of objects. For robots to be useful, they need the ability to find arbitrary objects described by people. In this paper, we present LeLaN(Learning Language-conditioned Navigation policy), a novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Noriaki Hirose , Catherine Glossop , Ajay Sridhar , Dhruv Shah , Oier Mees , Sergey Levine

Trajectory planning in autonomous driving is highly dependent on predicting the emergent behavior of other road users. Learning-based methods are currently showing impressive results in simulation-based challenges, with transformer-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Lars Ullrich , Alex McMaster , Knut Graichen