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Destination prediction is an essential task in a variety of mobile applications. In this paper, we optimize the matrix operation and adapt a semi-lazy framework to improve the prediction accuracy and efficiency of a state-of-the-art…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-07-11 Zhou Yang , Heli Sun , Jianbin Huang , Xiaolin Jia , Ziyu Guan , Zhongmeng Zhao

The survival analysis of driving trajectories allows for holistic evaluations of car-related risks caused by collisions or curvy roads. This analysis has advantages over common Time-To-X indicators, such as its predictive and probabilistic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Tim Puphal , Benedict Flade , Malte Probst , Volker Willert , Jürgen Adamy , Julian Eggert

Trajectory prediction is essential for the safety and efficiency of planning in autonomous vehicles. However, current models often fail to fully capture complex traffic rules and the complete range of potential vehicle movements. Addressing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Ahmad Rahimi , Alexandre Alahi

Mobile ground robots operating on unstructured terrain must predict which areas of the environment they are able to pass in order to plan feasible paths. We address traversability estimation as a heightmap classification problem: we build a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-02-20 R. Omar Chavez-Garcia , Jerome Guzzi , Luca M. Gambardella , Alessandro Giusti

We propose a risk-aware framework for multi-robot, multi-demand assignment and planning in unknown environments. Our motivation is disaster response and search-and-rescue scenarios where ground vehicles must reach demand locations as soon…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Vishnu D. Sharma , Maymoonah Toubeh , Lifeng Zhou , Pratap Tokekar

In the context of autonomous robots, one of the most important tasks is to prevent potential damage to the robot during navigation. For this purpose, it is often assumed that one must deal with known probabilistic obstacles, then compute…

Autonomous off-road navigation is required for applications in agriculture, construction, search and rescue and defence. Traditional on-road autonomous methods struggle with dynamic terrains, leading to poor vehicle control in off-road…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Saksham Sharma , Akshit Raizada , Suresh Sundaram

Micro aerial vehicles (MAVs), are frequently used for exploration, examination, and surveillance during search and rescue missions. Manually piloting these robots under stressful conditions provokes pilot errors and can result in crashes…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Marius Beul , Sven Behnke

We address the challenge of real-time planning of minimum-time trajectories over multiple waypoints, onboard multirotor UAVs. Previous works demonstrated that achieving a truly time-optimal trajectory is computationally too demanding to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Krystof Teissing , Matej Novosad , Robert Penicka , Martin Saska

Safe and high-speed navigation is a key enabling capability for real world deployment of robotic systems. A significant limitation of existing approaches is the computational bottleneck associated with explicit mapping and the limited field…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Kapil D. Katyal , Adam Polevoy , Joseph Moore , Craig Knuth , Katie M. Popek

Planning a path for a nonholonomic robot is a challenging topic in motion planning and it becomes more difficult when the desired path contains narrow passages. This kind of scenario can arise, for instance, when quadcopters search a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Yaohui Guo , Zhaolun Su , Dmitry Berenson , Ding Zhao

Trajectory planning for mobile robots in cluttered environments remains a major challenge due to narrow passages, where conventional methods often fail or generate suboptimal paths. To address this issue, we propose the adaptive trajectory…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Hahjin Lee , Young J. Kim

Legged navigation is typically examined within open-world, off-road, and challenging environments. In these scenarios, estimating external disturbances requires a complex synthesis of multi-modal information. This underlines a major…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Junli Ren , Yikai Liu , Yingru Dai , Junfeng Long , Guijin Wang

Motion planning for multi-jointed robots is challenging. Due to the inherent complexity of the problem, most existing works decompose motion planning as easier subproblems. However, because of the inconsistent performance metrics, only…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-11 Yu Zhao , Hsien-Chung Lin , Masayoshi Tomizuka

Deterministic methods for motion planning guarantee safety amidst uncertainty in obstacle locations by trying to restrict the robot from operating in any possible location that an obstacle could be in. Unfortunately, this can result in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Jinsun Liu , Challen Enninful Adu , Lucas Lymburner , Vishrut Kaushik , Lena Trang , Ram Vasudevan

Autonomous agents such as self-driving cars or parcel robots need to recognize and avoid possible collisions with obstacles in order to move successfully in their environment. Humans, however, have learned to predict movements intuitively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Carsten Hahn , Sebastian Feld , Hannes Schroter

As a core part of autonomous driving systems, motion planning has received extensive attention from academia and industry. However, real-time trajectory planning capable of spatial-temporal joint optimization is challenged by nonholonomic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Zhichao Han , Yuwei Wu , Tong Li , Lu Zhang , Liuao Pei , Long Xu , Chengyang Li , Changjia Ma , Chao Xu , Shaojie Shen , Fei Gao

This paper considers multi-goal motion planning in unstructured, obstacle-rich environments where a robot is required to reach multiple regions while avoiding collisions. The planned motions must also satisfy the differential constraints…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Yuanjie Lu , Erion Plaku

In the upstream of the exit ramp of the expressway, the speed limit difference leads to a significant deceleration of the vehicle in the area adjacent to the off-ramp. The friction coefficient of the road surface decreases under rainy…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-22 Boyao Peng , Lexing Zhang , Enkai Li

While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) enable high-level semantic reasoning for end-to-end autonomous driving, particularly in unstructured environments, existing off-road datasets suffer from language annotations that are weakly aligned with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Byounggun Park , Soonmin Hwang