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Autonomous racing is becoming popular for academic and industry researchers as a test for general autonomous driving by pushing perception, planning, and control algorithms to their limits. While traditional control methods such as MPC are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Edoardo Ghignone , Nicolas Baumann , Mike Boss , Michele Magno

We develop an algorithm for the motion and task planning of a system comprised of multiple robots and unactuated objects under tasks expressed as Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) constraints. The robots and objects evolve subject to uncertain…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-26 Christos K. Verginis , Yiannis Kantaros , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

We propose an imitation learning system for autonomous driving in urban traffic with interactions. We train a Behavioral Cloning~(BC) policy to imitate driving behavior collected from the real urban traffic, and apply the data aggregation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Zhao-Heng Yin , Chenran Li , Liting Sun , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Wei Zhan

Flying robots such as the quadrotor could provide an efficient approach for medical treatment or sensor placing of wild animals. In these applications, continuously targeting the moving animal is a crucial requirement. Due to the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Ziying Lin , Wei Dong , Sensen Liu , Xinjun Sheng , Xiangyang Zhu

Traffic congestion has lead to an increasing emphasis on management measures for a more efficient utilization of existing infrastructure. In this context, this paper proposes a novel framework that integrates real-time optimization of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-20 Samarth Gupta , Ravi Seshadri , Bilge Atasoy , A. Arun Prakash , Francisco Pereira , Gary Tan , Moshe Ben-Akiva

Iterative learning control (ILC) is a control strategy for repetitive tasks wherein information from previous runs is leveraged to improve future performance. Optimization-based ILC (OB-ILC) is a powerful design framework for constrained…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-27 Dominic Liao-McPherson , Efe C. Balta , Alisa Rupenyan , John Lygeros

Time-optimal obstacle avoidance is a prevalent problem encountered in various fields, including robotics and autonomous vehicles, where the task involves determining a path for a moving vehicle to reach its goal while navigating around…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Mehmetcan Kaymaz , Nazim Kemal Ure

An iterative learning based economic model predictive controller (ILEMPC) is proposed for repetitive tasks in this paper. Compared with existing works, the initial feasible trajectory of the proposed ILEMPC is not restricted to be…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Yushen Long , Lihua Xie , Shuai Liu

Platooning represents an advanced driving technology designed to assist drivers in traffic convoys of varying lengths, enhancing road safety, reducing driver fatigue, and improving fuel efficiency. Sophisticated automated driving assistance…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Akif Adas , Stefano Arrigoni , Mattia Brambilla , Monica Barbara Nicoli , Edoardo Sabbioni

Motion planning and control in autonomous car racing are one of the most challenging and safety-critical tasks due to high speed and dynamism. The lower-level control nodes are expected to be highly optimized due to resource constraints of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Nitish Gupta , Kurt Wilson , Zhishan Guo

Achieving a proper balance between planning quality, safety and efficiency is a major challenge for autonomous driving. Optimisation-based motion planners are capable of producing safe, smooth and comfortable plans, but often at the cost of…

Multi-robot systems have begun to permeate into a variety of different fields, but collision-free navigation in a decentralized manner is still an arduous task. Typically, the navigation of high speed multi-robot systems demands replanning…

Navigating safely and efficiently in dense and heterogeneous traffic scenarios is challenging for autonomous vehicles (AVs) due to their inability to infer the behaviors or intentions of nearby drivers. In this work, we introduce a…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Xiyang Wu , Rohan Chandra , Tianrui Guan , Amrit Singh Bedi , Dinesh Manocha

This work presents a novel Learning Model Predictive Control (LMPC) strategy for autonomous racing at the handling limit that can iteratively explore and learn unknown dynamics in high-speed operational domains. We start from existing LMPC…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Haoru Xue , Edward L. Zhu , John M. Dolan , Francesco Borrelli

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

Motion Planning under uncertainty is critical for safe self-driving. In this paper, we propose a unified obstacle avoidance framework that deals with 1) uncertainty in ego-vehicle motion; and 2) prediction uncertainty of dynamic obstacles…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Shivesh Khaitan , Qin Lin , John M. Dolan

Learning-based control methods for industrial processes leverage the repetitive nature of the underlying process to learn optimal inputs for the system. While many works focus on linear systems, real-world problems involve nonlinear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-25 Samuel Balula , Efe C. Balta , Dominic Liao-McPherson , Alisa Rupenyan , John Lygeros

Inertia drift is a transitional maneuver between two sustained drift stages in opposite directions, which provides valuable insights for navigating consecutive sharp corners for autonomous racing.However, this can be a challenging scenario…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Bei Zhou , Zhouheng Li , Lei Xie , Hongye Su , Johannes Betz

Humanoid robots are increasingly demanded to operate in interactive and human-surrounded environments while achieving sophisticated locomotion and manipulation tasks. To accomplish these tasks, roboticists unremittingly seek for advanced…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Ye Zhao

Intersection management with mixed cooperative and non-cooperative vehicles is crucial in next-generation transportation systems. For fully non-cooperative systems, a minimax scheduling framework was established, while it is inefficient in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-09 Feihong Yang , Yuan Shen