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This paper develops a game-theoretic decision-making framework for autonomous driving in multi-agent scenarios. A novel hierarchical game-based decision framework is developed for the ego vehicle. This framework features an interaction…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-30 Mushuang Liu , Yan Wan , Frank Lewis , Subramanya Nageshrao , H. Eric Tseng , Dimitar Filev

The operational space of an autonomous vehicle (AV) can be diverse and vary significantly. This may lead to a scenario that was not postulated in the design phase. Due to this, formulating a rule based decision maker for selecting maneuvers…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Subramanya Nageshrao , Eric Tseng , Dimitar Filev

Collaborative perception (CP) is a promising paradigm for improving situational awareness in autonomous vehicles by overcoming the limitations of single-agent perception. However, most existing approaches assume homogeneous agents, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Armin Maleki , Hayder Radha

Merging into dense highway traffic for an autonomous vehicle is a complex decision-making task, wherein the vehicle must identify a potential gap and coordinate with surrounding human drivers, each of whom may exhibit diverse driving…

Driving safety is a top priority for autonomous vehicles. Orthogonal to prior work handling accident-prone traffic events by algorithm designs at the policy level, we investigate a Closed-loop Adversarial Training (CAT) framework for safe…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Linrui Zhang , Zhenghao Peng , Quanyi Li , Bolei Zhou

A major challenge in autonomous vehicle research is modeling agent behaviors, which has critical applications including constructing realistic and reliable simulations for off-board evaluation and forecasting traffic agents motion for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Zhenghao Peng , Wenjie Luo , Yiren Lu , Tianyi Shen , Cole Gulino , Ari Seff , Justin Fu

In this work the problem of path planning for an autonomous vehicle that moves on a freeway is considered. The most common approaches that are used to address this problem are based on optimal control methods, which make assumptions about…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Konstantinos Makantasis , Maria Kontorinaki , Ioannis Nikolos

In this work, we consider the task of collision-free trajectory planning for connected self-driving vehicles. We specifically consider communication-critical situations--situations where single-agent systems have blindspots that require…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Nathaniel Moore Glaser , Zsolt Kira

Aiming at the problem of driver's perception lag and low utilization efficiency of space-time resources in expressway ramp confluence area, based on the preemptive spatiotemporal trajectory Adjustment system, from the perspective of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-01 Yuan Li , Xiaoxue Xu , Xiang Dong , Junfeng Hao , Tao Li , Sana Ullaha , Chuangrui Huang , Junjie Niu , Ziyan Zhao , Ting Peng

Collecting real-world data for rare high-risk scenarios, long-tailed driving events, and complex interactions remains challenging, leading to poor performance of existing autonomous driving systems in these critical situations. In this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Baihui Xiao , Chengjian Feng , Zhijian Huang , Feng yan , Yujie Zhong , Lin Ma

We present a novel approach for risk-aware planning with human agents in multi-agent traffic scenarios. Our approach takes into account the wide range of human driver behaviors on the road, from aggressive maneuvers like speeding and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Rohan Chandra , Mingyu Wang , Mac Schwager , Dinesh Manocha

Efficient scalability of automated driving (AD) is key to reducing costs, enhancing safety, conserving resources, and maximizing impact. However, research focuses on specific vehicles and context, while broad deployment requires scalability…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Lars Ullrich , Michael Buchholz , Jonathan Petit , Klaus Dietmayer , Knut Graichen

Safe and efficient autonomous driving maneuvers in an interactive and complex environment can be considerably challenging due to the unpredictable actions of other surrounding agents that may be cooperative or adversarial in their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Pin Wang , Ching-Yao Chan , Hanhan Li

Verifying highly automated driving functions can be challenging, requiring identifying relevant test scenarios. Scenario-based testing will likely play a significant role in verifying these systems, predominantly occurring within…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Maximilian Zipfl , Barbara Schütt , J. Marius Zöllner

An ideal traffic simulator replicates the realistic long-term point-to-point trip that a self-driving system experiences during deployment. Prior models and benchmarks focus on closed-loop motion simulation for initial agents in a scene.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Xiuyu Yang , Shuhan Tan , Philipp Krähenbühl

Safe and scalable deployment of end-to-end (E2E) autonomous driving requires extensive and diverse data, particularly safety-critical events. Existing data are mostly generated from simulators with a significant sim-to-real gap or collected…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Jiawei Wang , Haowei Sun , Xintao Yan , Shuo Feng , Jun Gao , Henry X. Liu

Current autonomous driving (AD) simulations are critically limited by their inadequate representation of realistic and diverse human behavior, which is essential for ensuring safety and reliability. Existing benchmarks often simplify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Mohan Ramesh , Mark Azer , Fabian B. Flohr

Autonomous vehicles must be comprehensively evaluated before deployed in cities and highways. However, most existing evaluation approaches for autonomous vehicles are static and lack adaptability, so they are usually inefficient in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Baiming Chen , Xiang Chen , Wu Qiong , Liang Li

MATSim (Multi-Agent Transport Simulation Toolkit) is an open source large-scale agent-based transportation planning project applied to various areas like road transport, public transport, freight transport, regional evacuation, etc. BEAM…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Kiran Chhatre , Sidney Feygin , Colin Sheppard , Rashid Waraich

Ensuring realistic traffic dynamics is a prerequisite for simulation platforms to evaluate the reliability of self-driving systems before deployment in the real world. Because most road users are human drivers, reproducing their diverse…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Wendi Li , Hao Wu , Han Gao , Bing Mao , Fengyuan Xu , Sheng Zhong