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This paper presents a novel data-driven approach to vehicle motion planning and control in off-road driving scenarios. For autonomous off-road driving, environmental conditions impact terrain traversability as a function of weather, surface…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-05-28 Hossein Rastgoftar , Bingxin Zhang , Ella M. Atkins

Applying reinforcement learning to autonomous driving entails particular challenges, primarily due to dynamically changing traffic flows. To address such challenges, it is necessary to quickly determine response strategies to the changing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Se-Wook Yoo , Chan Kim , Jin-Woo Choi , Seong-Woo Kim , Seung-Woo Seo

A human-centered robot needs to reason about the cognitive limitation and potential irrationality of its human partner to achieve seamless interactions. This paper proposes an anytime game-theoretic planner that integrates iterative…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Ran Tian , Liting Sun , Masayoshi Tomizuka , David Isele

This work uses game theory as a mathematical framework to address interaction modeling in multi-agent motion forecasting and control. Despite its interpretability, applying game theory to real-world robotics, like automated driving, faces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Christopher Diehl , Tobias Klosek , Martin Krüger , Nils Murzyn , Timo Osterburg , Torsten Bertram

In order for agents in multi-agent systems (MAS) to be safe, they need to take into account the risks posed by the actions of other agents. However, the dominant paradigm in game theory (GT) assumes that agents are not affected by risk from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Oliver Slumbers , David Henry Mguni , Stephen Marcus McAleer , Stefano B. Blumberg , Jun Wang , Yaodong Yang

This paper addresses autonomous racing by introducing a real-time nonlinear model predictive controller (NMPC) coupled with a moving horizon estimator (MHE). The racing problem is solved by an NMPC-based off-line trajectory planner that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Yassine Kebbati , Andreas Rauh , Naima Ait-Oufroukh , Dalil Ichalal , Vincent Vigneron

Motivated by the need to develop simulation tools for verification and validation of autonomous driving systems operating in traffic consisting of both autonomous and human-driven vehicles, we propose a framework for modeling vehicle…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Nan Li , Yu Yao , Ilya Kolmanovsky , Ella Atkins , Anouck Girard

With autonomous vehicles (AV) set to integrate further into regular human traffic, there is an increasing consensus on treating AV motion planning as a multi-agent problem. However, the traditional game-theoretic assumption of complete…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Atrisha Sarkar , Krzysztof Czarnecki

The multi-robot unlabeled motion planning problem of concurrently assigning robots to goals and generating safe trajectories is central in many collaborative tasks. Recent Graph Neural Network methods offer scalable decentralized solutions…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Manohari Goarin , Yang Zhou , Giuseppe Loianno

Ensuring robust decision-making in multi-agent systems is challenging when agents have distinct, possibly conflicting objectives and lack full knowledge of each other's strategies. This is apparent in safety-critical applications such as…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-20 Francesco Bianchin , Robert Lefringhausen , Elisa Gaetan , Samuel Tesfazgi , Sandra Hirche

Autonomous vehicles require highly sophisticated decision-making to determine their motion. This paper describes how such functionality can be achieved with a practical rule engine learned from expert driving decisions. We propose an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Bouchard Frederic , Sedwards Sean , Czarnecki Krzysztof

This paper proposes a novel decision-making framework for autonomous vehicles (AVs), called predictor-corrector potential game (PCPG), composed of a Predictor and a Corrector. To enable human-like reasoning and characterize agent…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-13 Mushuang Liu , H. Eric Tseng , Dimitar Filev , Anouck Girard , Ilya Kolmanovsky

This work develops a control framework for the autonomous overtaking of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) in a mixed traffic environment, where the overtaken vehicle is an unconnected but interactive human-driven vehicle. The proposed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-18 Sheng Yu , Boli Chen , Imad M. Jaimoukha , Simos A. Evangelou

The collective of autonomous cars is expected to generate almost optimal traffic. In this position paper we discuss the multi-agent models and the verification results of the collective behaviour of autonomous cars. We argue that…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-09-11 László Z. Varga

In this paper, a multi-agent motion planning problem is studied aiming to minimize energy consumption of connected automated vehicles (CAVs) in lane change scenarios. We model this interactive motion planning as a generalized Nash…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-25 Viranjan Bhattacharyya , Tyler Ard , Rongyao Wang , Ardalan Vahidi , Yunyi Jia , Jihun Han

Autonomous driving planning systems perform nearly perfectly in routine scenarios using lightweight, rule-based methods but still struggle in dense urban traffic, where lane changes and merges require anticipating and influencing other…

We propose a multi-agent based computational framework for modeling decision-making and strategic interaction at micro level for smart vehicles in a smart world. The concepts of Markov game and best response dynamics are heavily leveraged.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Qi Dai , Xunnong Xu , Wen Guo , Suzhou Huang , Dimitar Filev

End-to-end autonomous driving resides not in the integration of perception and planning, but rather in the dynamic multi-agent game within a unified representation space. Most existing end-to-end models treat all agents equally, hindering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Kang Ding , Hongsong Wang , Jie Gui , Lei He

Autonomous race driving poses a complex control challenge as vehicles must be operated at the edge of their handling limits to reduce lap times while respecting physical and safety constraints. This paper presents a novel reinforcement…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Yuanda Wang , Xin Yuan , Changyin Sun

Game-based interactive driving simulations have emerged as versatile platforms for advancing decision-making algorithms in road transport mobility. While these environments offer safe, scalable, and engaging settings for testing driving…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Zhihao Lin , Zhen Tian