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Safe swarm navigation in cluttered indoor environment requires long-horizon planning, reactive obstacle avoidance, and adaptive compliance. We propose ImpedanceDiffusion, a hierarchical framework that leverages image-conditioned…

In this paper, we introduce a novel approach to trajectory generation for autonomous driving, combining the strengths of Diffusion models and Transformers. First, we use the historical trajectory data for efficient preprocessing and…

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The urban environment is amongst the most difficult domains for autonomous vehicles. The vehicle must be able to plan a safe route on challenging road layouts, in the presence of various dynamic traffic participants such as vehicles,…

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Realistic and interactive scene simulation is a key prerequisite for autonomous vehicle (AV) development. In this work, we present SceneDiffuser, a scene-level diffusion prior designed for traffic simulation. It offers a unified framework…

In autonomous driving tasks, trajectory prediction in complex traffic environments requires adherence to real-world context conditions and behavior multimodalities. Existing methods predominantly rely on prior assumptions or generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Yiming Xu , Hao Cheng , Monika Sester

Planning allows an agent to safely refine its actions before executing them in the real world. In autonomous driving, this is crucial to avoid collisions and navigate in complex, dense traffic scenarios. One way to plan is to search for the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Asen Nachkov , Jan-Nico Zaech , Danda Pani Paudel , Xi Wang , Luc Van Gool

Recent advancements in Language Models (LMs) have demonstrated strong semantic reasoning capabilities, enabling their application in high-level decision-making for autonomous driving (AD). However, LMs operate over discrete token spaces and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Fan Ding , Xuewen Luo , Fengze Yang , Bo Yu , HwaHui Tew , Ganesh Krishnasamy , Junn Yong Loo

Diffusion models have recently emerged as effective generative frameworks for trajectory optimization, capable of producing high-quality and diverse solutions. However, training these models in a purely data-driven manner without explicit…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Anjian Li , Ryne Beeson

Planning safe and efficient trajectories through signal-free intersections presents significant challenges for autonomous vehicles (AVs), particularly in dynamic, multi-task environments with unpredictable interactions and an increased…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Di Chen , Ruiguo Zhong , Kehua Chen , Zhiwei Shang , Meixin Zhu , Edward Chung

Diffusion models have shown promising capabilities in trajectory generation for planning in offline reinforcement learning (RL). However, conventional diffusion-based planning methods often fail to account for the fact that generating…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Hanping Zhang , Yuhong Guo

In this paper, we introduce a novel approach for autonomous driving trajectory generation by harnessing the complementary strengths of diffusion probabilistic models (a.k.a., diffusion models) and transformers. Our proposed framework,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Chen Yang , Yangfan He , Aaron Xuxiang Tian , Dong Chen , Jianhui Wang , Tianyu Shi , Arsalan Heydarian , Pei Liu

High-risk traffic zones such as intersections are a major cause of collisions. This study leverages deep generative models to enhance the safety of autonomous vehicles in an intersection context. We train a 1000-step denoising diffusion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Juanran Wang , Marc R. Schlichting , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Generating realistic simulations is critical for autonomous system applications such as self-driving and human-robot interactions. However, driving simulators nowadays still have difficulty in generating controllable, diverse, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Yue Meng , Chuchu fan

Evaluating the performance of autonomous vehicle planning algorithms necessitates simulating long-tail safety-critical traffic scenarios. However, traditional methods for generating such scenarios often fall short in terms of…

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In recent years, diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable potential across diverse domains, from vision generation to language modeling. Transferring its generative capabilities to modern end-to-end autonomous driving systems has also…

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This work introduces TrajDiffuser, a compositional diffusion-based flexible and concurrent trajectory generator for 6 degrees of freedom powered descent guidance. TrajDiffuser is a statistical model that learns the multi-modal distributions…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Julia Briden , Yilun Du , Enrico M. Zucchelli , Richard Linares

Swarm robotic trajectory planning faces challenges in computational efficiency, scalability, and safety, particularly in complex, obstacle-dense environments. To address these issues, we propose SwarmDiff, a hierarchical and scalable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Kang Ding , Chunxuan Jiao , Yunze Hu , Kangjie Zhou , Pengying Wu , Yao Mu , Chang Liu

Diffusion models have demonstrated highly-expressive generative capabilities in vision and NLP. Recent studies in reinforcement learning (RL) have shown that diffusion models are also powerful in modeling complex policies or trajectories in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Haoran He , Chenjia Bai , Kang Xu , Zhuoran Yang , Weinan Zhang , Dong Wang , Bin Zhao , Xuelong Li

Automated creation of synthetic traffic scenarios is a key part of validating the safety of autonomous vehicles (AVs). In this paper, we propose Scenario Diffusion, a novel diffusion-based architecture for generating traffic scenarios that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Ethan Pronovost , Meghana Reddy Ganesina , Noureldin Hendy , Zeyu Wang , Andres Morales , Kai Wang , Nicholas Roy