Safe occlusion-aware autonomous driving via game-theoretic active perception

Z Zhang, JF Fisac - arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.08169, 2021 - arxiv.org
Autonomous vehicles interacting with other traffic participants heavily rely on the perception
and prediction of other agents' behaviors to plan safe trajectories. However, as occlusions …

Toward safer autonomous vehicles: Occlusion-aware trajectory planning to minimize risky behavior

R Trauth, K Moller, J Betz - IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous vehicles face numerous challenges to ensure safe operation in unpredictable
and hazardous conditions. The autonomous driving environment is characterized by high …

TDR-OBCA: A reliable planner for autonomous driving in free-space environment

R He, J Zhou, S Jiang, Y Wang, J Tao… - 2021 American …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an optimization-based collision avoidance trajectory generation method
for autonomous driving in free-space environments, with enhanced robustness, driving …

Learning interaction-aware guidance policies for motion planning in dense traffic scenarios

B Brito, A Agarwal, J Alonso-Mora - arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.04538, 2021 - arxiv.org
Autonomous navigation in dense traffic scenarios remains challenging for autonomous
vehicles (AVs) because the intentions of other drivers are not directly observable and AVs …

On infusing reachability-based safety assurance within probabilistic planning frameworks for human-robot vehicle interactions

K Leung, E Schmerling, M Chen, J Talbot… - Proceedings of the 2018 …, 2020 - Springer
Action anticipation, intent prediction, and proactive behavior are all desirable characteristics
for autonomous driving policies in interactive scenarios. Paramount, however, is ensuring …

Risk assessment and planning with bidirectional reachability for autonomous driving

MY Yu, R Vasudevan… - 2020 IEEE International …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Risk assessment to quantify the danger associated with taking a certain action is critical to
navigating safely through crowded urban environments during autonomous driving. Risk …

What lies in the shadows? Safe and computation-aware motion planning for autonomous vehicles using intent-aware dynamic shadow regions

Y Nager, A Censi, E Frazzoli - 2019 International Conference …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
One of the challenges of developing autonomous vehicles is planning in an inhabited
environment under sensing uncertainty as well as limited perception and computational …

Prediction-based reachability for collision avoidance in autonomous driving

A Li, L Sun, W Zhan, M Tomizuka… - 2021 IEEE International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Safety is an important topic in autonomous driving since any collision may cause serious
injury to people and damage to property. Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) Reachability is a formal …

Plop: Probabilistic polynomial objects trajectory planning for autonomous driving

T Buhet, E Wirbel, A Bursuc, X Perrotton - arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.08744, 2020 - arxiv.org
To navigate safely in urban environments, an autonomous vehicle (ego vehicle) must
understand and anticipate its surroundings, in particular the behavior and intents of other …

Foresee the unseen: Sequential reasoning about hidden obstacles for safe driving

JMG Sánchez, T Nyberg, C Pek… - 2022 IEEE Intelligent …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Safe driving requires autonomous vehicles to anticipate potential hidden traffic participants
and other unseen objects, such as a cyclist hidden behind a large vehicle, or an object on …