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Planning is a critical component of end-to-end autonomous driving. However, prevailing imitation learning methods often suffer from mode collapse, failing to produce diverse trajectory hypotheses. Meanwhile, existing generative approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Lin Liu , Guanyi Yu , Ziying Song , Junqiao Li , Caiyan Jia , Feiyang Jia , Peiliang Wu , Yandan Luo

With the increasing integration of robots into human life, their role in architectural spaces where people spend most of their time has become more prominent. While motion capabilities and accurate localization for automated robots have…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Mengke Zhang , Zhihao Tian , Yaoguang Xia , Chao Xu , Fei Gao , Yanjun Cao

In this paper, we employ multiple UAVs coordinated by a base station (BS) to help the ground users (GUs) to offload their sensing data. Different UAVs can adapt their trajectories and network formation to expedite data transmissions via…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-29 Shimin Gong , Meng Wang , Bo Gu , Wenjie Zhang , Dinh Thai Hoang , Dusit Niyato

Given the increasing popularity and demand for connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs), Eco-driving and platooning in highways and urban areas to increase the efficiency of the traffic system is becoming a possibility. This paper presents…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-19 Hao Zhen , Sahand Mosharafian , Jidong J. Yang , Javad Mohammadpour Velni

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are now beginning to be deployed for enhancing the network performance and coverage in wireless communication. However, due to the limitation of their on-board power and flight time, it is challenging to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-08 Khoi Khac Nguyen , Trung Q. Duong , Tan Do-Duy , Holger Claussen , and Lajos Hanzo

Generating receding-horizon motion trajectories for autonomous vehicles in real-time while also providing safety guarantees is challenging. This is because a future trajectory needs to be planned before the previously computed trajectory is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Jonathan Michaux , Qingyi Chen , Challen Enninful Adu , Jinsun Liu , Ram Vasudevan

Flow-based methods for sampling and generative modeling use continuous-time dynamical systems to represent a {transport map} that pushes forward a source measure to a target measure. The introduction of a time axis provides considerable…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-19 Panos Tsimpos , Zhi Ren , Jakob Zech , Youssef Marzouk

Ergodic capacity is an important performance measure associated with reliable communication at the highest rate at which information can be sent over the channel with a negligible probability of error. In the shadow of this definition,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-10 Ferkan Yilmaz , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Trajectories that capture object movement have numerous applications, in which similarity computation between trajectories often plays a key role. Traditionally, the similarity between two trajectories is quantified by means of heuristic…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Yanchuan Chang , Egemen Tanin , Gao Cong , Christian S. Jensen , Jianzhong Qi

Navigating an arbitrary-shaped ground robot safely in cluttered environments remains a challenging problem. The existing trajectory planners that account for the robot's physical geometry severely suffer from the intractable runtime. To…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Yisheng Li , Longji Yin , Yixi Cai , Jianheng Liu , Fangcheng Zhu , Mingpu Ma , Siqi Liang , Haotian Li , Fu Zhang

Planning the trajectory of the controlled ego vehicle is a key challenge in automated driving. As for human drivers, predicting the motions of surrounding vehicles is important to plan the own actions. Recent motion prediction methods…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Steffen Hagedorn , Marcel Milich , Alexandru P. Condurache

Learning for robot navigation presents a critical and challenging task. The scarcity and costliness of real-world datasets necessitate efficient learning approaches. In this letter, we exploit Euclidean symmetry in planning for 2D…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Linfeng Zhao , Hongyu Li , Taskin Padir , Huaizu Jiang , Lawson L. S. Wong

In this paper, we simultaneously address the problems of energy optimal and safe motion planning of electric vehicles (EVs) in a data-driven robust optimization framework. Safe maneuvers, especially in urban traffic, are characterized by…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-09 Simran Kumari , Ashish R. Hota , Siddhartha Mukhopadhyay

This paper studies a rechargeable unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) assisted wireless network, where a UAV is dispatched to disseminate information to a group of ground terminals (GTs) and returns to a recharging station (RS) before the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Yuan Liao , Vasilis Friderikos

Motivated by the problem of pursuit-evasion, we present a motion planning framework that combines energy-based diffusion models with artificial potential fields for robust real time trajectory generation in complex environments. Our…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Wondmgezahu Teshome , Kian Behzad , Octavia Camps , Michael Everett , Milad Siami , Mario Sznaier

This work proposes a framework for the robust design of UAV-assisted wireless networks that combine 3D trajectory optimization with user mobility prediction to address dynamic resource allocation challenges. We proposed a sparse…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-12 Asad Mahmood , Thang X. Vu , Wali Ullah Khan , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten

Autonomous navigation in unstructured environments requires robots to assess terrain difficulty in real-time and plan paths that balance efficiency with safety. This thesis presents a traversability-aware navigation framework for the M4…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Hrigved Mahesh Suryawanshi

The formation trajectory planning using complete graphs to model collaborative constraints becomes computationally intractable as the number of drones increases due to the curse of dimensionality. To tackle this issue, this paper presents a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Yuan Zhou , Lun Quan , Chao Xu , Guangtong Xu , Fei Gao

Efficient point-to-point navigation in the presence of a background flow field is important for robotic applications such as ocean surveying. In such applications, robots may only have knowledge of their immediate surroundings or be faced…

In this work, we consider the problem of multi-agent informative path planning (IPP) for robots whose sensor visibility continuously changes as a consequence of a time-varying natural phenomenon. We leverage ergodic trajectory optimization…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Elena Wittemyer , Ananya Rao , Ian Abraham , Howie Choset