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Motion prediction for intelligent vehicles typically focuses on estimating the most probable future evolutions of a traffic scenario. Estimating the gap acceptance, i.e., whether a vehicle merges or crosses before another vehicle with the…
Lane merging is one of the critical tasks for self-driving cars, and how to perform lane-merge maneuvers effectively and safely has become one of the important standards in measuring the capability of autonomous driving systems. However,…
A distributed coordination method for solving multi-vehicle lane changes for connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs) is presented. Existing approaches to multi-vehicle lane changes are passive and opportunistic as they are implemented only…
In prioritized planning for vehicles, vehicles plan trajectories in parallel or in sequence. Parallel prioritized planning offers approximately consistent computation time regardless of the number of vehicles but struggles to guarantee…
A novel local trajectory planner, capable of controlling an autonomous off-road vehicle on rugged terrain at high-speed is presented. Autonomous vehicles are currently unable to safely operate off-road at high-speed, as current approaches…
In preparing for connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs), a worrisome aspect is the transition era which will be characterized by mixed traffic (where CAVs and human-driven vehicles (HDVs) share the roadway). Consistent with expectations…
Driving is a social activity: drivers often indicate their intent to change lanes via motion cues. We consider mixed-autonomy traffic where a Human-driven Vehicle (HV) and an Autonomous Vehicle (AV) drive together. We propose a planning…
Autonomous vehicle control is generally divided in two main areas; trajectory planning and tracking. Currently, the trajectory planning is mostly done by particle or kinematic model-based optimization controllers. The output of these…
Path tracking system plays a key technology in autonomous driving. The system should be driven accurately along the lane and be careful not to cause any inconvenience to passengers. To address such tasks, this paper proposes hybrid tracker…
Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) need to operate for days without human intervention and thus must be able to do efficient and reliable task planning. Unfortunately, efficient task planning requires deliberately abstract domain models…
Platooning of connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) is an emerging technology with a strong potential for throughput improvement and fuel reduction. Adequate macroscopic models are critical for system-level efficiency and reliability of…
Widespread development of driverless vehicles has led to the formation of autonomous racing, where technological development is accelerated by the high speeds and competitive environment of motorsport. A particular challenge for an…
The integration of autonomous vehicles (AVs) into the existing transportation infrastructure offers a promising solution to alleviate congestion and enhance mobility. This research explores a novel approach to traffic optimization by…
Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is a long-standing problem in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence in which one needs to find a set of collision-free paths for a group of mobile agents (robots) operating in the shared workspace. Due to its…
This paper addresses the optimal control of Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs) arriving from two roads at a merging point where the objective is to jointly minimize the travel time and energy consumption of each CAV. The solution…
This paper extends our previous work in [1],[2], on optimal scheduling of autonomous vehicle arrivals at intersections, from one to a grid of intersections. A scalable distributed Mixed Integer Linear Program (MILP) is devised that solves…
We propose a generic multi-robot planning mechanism that combines an optimal task planner and an optimal path planner to provide a scalable solution for complex multi-robot planning problems. The Integrated planner, through the interaction…
Autonomous vehicles (AV) look set to become common on our roads within the next few years. However, to achieve the final breakthrough, not only functional progress is required, but also satisfactory safety assurance must be provided. Among…
Path planning is an essential component of autonomous driving. A global planner is responsible for the high-level planning. It basically performs a shortest-path search on a known map, thereby defining waypoints used to control the local…
In this article, we consider the problem of trajectory planning and control for on-road driving of an autonomous ground vehicle (AGV) in presence of static or moving obstacles. We propose a systematic approach to partition the…