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Vision-Language Models(VLMs) excel at autoregressive text generation, yet end-to-end autonomous driving requires multi-task learning with structured outputs and heterogeneous decoding behaviors, such as autoregressive language generation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yiwei Zhang , Xuesong Chen , Jin Gao , Hanshi Wang , Fudong Ge , Weiming Hu , Shaoshuai Shi , Zhipeng Zhang

Enabling embodied agents to imagine future states is essential for robust and generalizable visual navigation. Yet, state-of-the-art systems typically rely on modular designs that decouple navigation planning from visual world modeling,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yifei Dong , Fengyi Wu , Guangyu Chen , Lingdong Kong , Xu Zhu , Qiyu Hu , Yuxuan Zhou , Jingdong Sun , Jun-Yan He , Qi Dai , Alexander G. Hauptmann , Zhi-Qi Cheng

With the powerful reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) and vision-language models (VLMs), many recent works have explored using them for decision-making. However, most of these approaches rely solely on language-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Yihao Sun , Zhilong Zhang , Yang Yu , Pierre-Luc Bacon

Trajectory sampling in the Frenet(road-aligned) frame, is one of the most popular methods for motion planning of autonomous vehicles. It operates by sampling a set of behavioural inputs, such as lane offset and forward speed, before solving…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Jatan Shrestha , Simon Idoko , Basant Sharma , Arun Kumar Singh

Recent years have seen a growing research interest in applications of Deep Neural Networks (DNN) on autonomous vehicle technology. The trend started with perception and prediction a few years ago and it is gradually being applied to motion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Hang Zhou , Haichao Liu , Hongliang Lu , Dan Xu , Jun Ma , Yiding Ji

Existing motion planning methods often struggle with rapid-motion obstacles due to an insufficient understanding of environmental changes. To address this, we propose integrating motion planners with Doppler LiDARs, which provide not only…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Wei Zuo , Zeyi Ren , Chengyang Li , Yikun Wang , Mingle Zhao , Shuai Wang , Wei Sui , Fei Gao , Yik-Chung Wu , Chengzhong Xu

We present the design of a motion planning algorithm that ensures safety for an autonomous vehicle. In particular, we consider a multimodal distribution over uncertainties; for example, the uncertain predictions of future trajectories of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-01 Heejin Ahn , Colin Chen , Ian M. Mitchell , Maryam Kamgarpour

Motion prediction plays an important role in autonomous driving. This study presents LMFormer, a lane-aware transformer network for trajectory prediction tasks. In contrast to previous studies, our work provides a simple mechanism to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Harsh Yadav , Maximilian Schaefer , Kun Zhao , Tobias Meisen

The release of nuPlan marks a new era in vehicle motion planning research, offering the first large-scale real-world dataset and evaluation schemes requiring both precise short-term planning and long-horizon ego-forecasting. Existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Daniel Dauner , Marcel Hallgarten , Andreas Geiger , Kashyap Chitta

Multi-camera 3D perception has emerged as a prominent research field in autonomous driving, offering a viable and cost-effective alternative to LiDAR-based solutions. The existing multi-camera algorithms primarily rely on monocular 2D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Chen Min , Liang Xiao , Dawei Zhao , Yiming Nie , Bin Dai

Understanding the interdependence between autonomous and human-operated vehicles remains an ongoing challenge, with significant implications for the safety and feasibility of autonomous driving.This interdependence arises from inherent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Nouhed Naidja , Guillaume Sandou , Stéphane Font , Marc Revilloud

Motion planning is a critical component of intelligent unmanned systems, enabling their complex autonomous operations. However, current planning algorithms still face limitations in planning efficiency due to inflexible strategies and weak…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Yinghao Zhao , Chenguang Dai , Liang Lyu , Zhenchao Zhang , Chaozhen Lan , Hong Xie

This paper presents Deep-PANTHER, a learning-based perception-aware trajectory planner for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in dynamic environments. Given the current state of the UAV, and the predicted trajectory and size of the obstacle,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Jesus Tordesillas , Jonathan P. How

Motion prediction of surrounding vehicles is one of the most important tasks handled by a self-driving vehicle, and represents a critical step in the autonomous system necessary to ensure safety for all the involved traffic actors. Recently…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Sai Yalamanchi , Tzu-Kuo Huang , Galen Clark Haynes , Nemanja Djuric

Achieving safe and stylized trajectory planning in complex real-world scenarios remains a critical challenge for autonomous driving systems. This paper proposes the SDD Planner, a diffusion-based framework designed to effectively reconcile…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Shuo Pei , Yong Wang , Yuanchen Zhu , Chen Sun , Qin Li , Yanan Zhao , Huachun Tan

Our research introduces a modular motion planning framework for autonomous vehicles using a sampling-based trajectory planning algorithm. This approach effectively tackles the challenges of solution space construction and optimization in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Rainer Trauth , Korbinian Moller , Gerald Wuersching , Johannes Betz

In this paper, we propose the Deep Structured self-Driving Network (DSDNet), which performs object detection, motion prediction, and motion planning with a single neural network. Towards this goal, we develop a deep structured energy based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Wenyuan Zeng , Shenlong Wang , Renjie Liao , Yun Chen , Bin Yang , Raquel Urtasun

To control how a robot moves, motion planning algorithms must compute paths in high-dimensional state spaces while accounting for physical constraints related to motors and joints, generating smooth and stable motions, avoiding obstacles,…

Learning-based planners are sensitive to the long-tailed distribution of driving data. Common maneuvers dominate datasets, while dangerous or rare scenarios are sparse. This imbalance can bias models toward the frequent cases and degrade…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Lingguang Wang , Ömer Şahin Taş , Marlon Steiner , Christoph Stiller

Trajectory prediction seeks to forecast the future motion of dynamic entities, such as vehicles and pedestrians, given a temporal horizon of historical movement data and environmental context. A central challenge in this domain is the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Jintao Sun , Hu Zhang , Gangyi Ding , Zhedong Zheng