Overcoming the fear of the dark: Occlusion-aware model-predictive planning for automated vehicles using risk fields

C van der Ploeg, T Nyberg, JMG Sánchez… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
As vehicle automation advances, motion planning algorithms face escalating challenges in
achieving safe and efficient navigation. Existing Advanced Driver Assistance Systems …

Overcoming Fear of the Unknown: Occlusion-Aware Model-Predictive Planning for Automated Vehicles Using Risk Fields

C van der Ploeg, T Nyberg… - IEEE Transactions …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As vehicle automation advances, motion planning algorithms face escalating challenges in
achieving safe and efficient navigation. Existing Advanced Driver Assistance Systems …

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 …

Safety-assured speculative planning with adaptive prediction

X Liu, R Jiao, Y Wang, Y Han… - 2023 IEEE/RSJ …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently significant progress has been made in vehicle prediction and planning algorithms
for autonomous driving. However, it remains quite challenging for an autonomous vehicle to …

From footprints to beliefprints: Motion planning under uncertainty for maneuvering automated vehicles in dense scenarios

H Banzhaf, M Dolgov, J Stellet… - 2018 21st International …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Motion planning for car-like robots is one of the major challenges in automated driving. It
requires to solve a two-point boundary value problem that connects a start and a goal …

Sampling-based optimal trajectory generation for autonomous vehicles using reachable sets

G Würsching, M Althoff - 2021 IEEE International Intelligent …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Motion planners for autonomous vehicles must obtain feasible trajectories in real-time
regardless of the complexity of traffic conditions. Planning approaches that discretize the …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] General Optimal Trajectory Planning: Enabling Autonomous Vehicles with the Principle of Least Action

H Huang, Y Liu, J Liu, Q Yang, J Wang, D Abbink… - Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
This study presents a general optimal trajectory planning (GOTP) framework for autonomous
vehicles (AVs) that can effectively avoid obstacles and guide AVs to complete driving tasks …

A two-stage optimization-based motion planner for safe urban driving

F Eiras, M Hawasly, SV Albrecht… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent road trials have shown that guaranteeing the safety of driving decisions is essential
for the wider adoption of autonomous vehicle technology. One promising direction is to pose …

Non-conservative trajectory planning for automated vehicles by estimating intentions of dynamic obstacles

T Benciolini, D Wollherr… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Motion planning algorithms for urban automated driving must handle uncertainty due to
unknown intention and future motion of Dynamic Obstacles (DOs). Considering a single …