Safetynet: Safe planning for real-world self-driving vehicles using machine-learned policies

M Vitelli, Y Chang, Y Ye, A Ferreira… - … on Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper we present the first safe system for full control of self-driving vehicles trained
from human demonstrations and deployed in challenging, real-world, urban environments …

Safe real-world autonomous driving by learning to predict and plan with a mixture of experts

S Pini, CS Perone, A Ahuja… - … on Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The goal of autonomous vehicles is to navigate public roads safely and comfortably. To
enforce safety, traditional planning approaches rely on handcrafted rules to generate …

Jointly learnable behavior and trajectory planning for self-driving vehicles

A Sadat, M Ren, A Pokrovsky, YC Lin… - 2019 IEEE/RSJ …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The motion planners used in self-driving vehicles need to generate trajectories that are safe,
comfortable, and obey the traffic rules. This is usually achieved by two modules: behavior …

Planning and decision-making for autonomous vehicles

W Schwarting, J Alonso-Mora… - Annual Review of Control …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
In this review, we provide an overview of emerging trends and challenges in the field of
intelligent and autonomous, or self-driving, vehicles. Recent advances in the field of …

Simnet: Learning reactive self-driving simulations from real-world observations

L Bergamini, Y Ye, O Scheel, L Chen… - … on Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work we present a simple end-to-end trainable machine learning system capable of
realistically simulating driving experiences. This can be used for verification of self-driving …

A safe hierarchical planning framework for complex driving scenarios based on reinforcement learning

J Li, L Sun, J Chen, M Tomizuka… - 2021 IEEE International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous vehicles need to handle various traffic conditions and make safe and efficient
decisions and maneuvers. However, on the one hand, a single optimization/sampling-based …

Learning robust control policies for end-to-end autonomous driving from data-driven simulation

A Amini, I Gilitschenski, J Phillips… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, we present a data-driven simulation and training engine capable of learning
end-to-end autonomous vehicle control policies using only sparse rewards. By leveraging …

Safety-driven interactive planning for neural network-based lane changing

X Liu, R Jiao, B Zheng, D Liang, Q Zhu - … of the 28th Asia and South …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Neural network-based driving planners have shown great promises in improving task
performance of autonomous driving. However, it is critical and yet very challenging to ensure …

Pilot: Efficient planning by imitation learning and optimisation for safe autonomous driving

H Pulver, F Eiras, L Carozza, M Hawasly… - 2021 IEEE/RSJ …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Achieving a proper balance between planning quality, safety and efficiency is a major
challenge for autonomous driving. Optimisation-based motion planners are capable of …

Integrating deep reinforcement learning with model-based path planners for automated driving

E Yurtsever, L Capito, K Redmill… - 2020 IEEE Intelligent …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automated driving in urban settings is challenging. Human participant behavior is difficult to
model, and conventional, rule-based Automated Driving Systems (ADSs) tend to fail when …