[HTML][HTML] Trajectory planning under environmental uncertainty with finite-sample safety guarantees

V Lefkopoulos, M Kamgarpour - Automatica, 2021 - Elsevier
We tackle the problem of trajectory planning in an environment comprised of a set of
obstacles with uncertain time-varying locations. The uncertainties are modeled using widely …

Using uncertainty data in chance-constrained trajectory planning

V Lefkopoulos, M Kamgarpour - 2019 18th European Control …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider the problem of trajectory planning in an environment comprised of a set of
obstacles with uncertain locations. While previous approaches model the uncertainties with …

Chance-constrained trajectory planning with multimodal environmental uncertainty

K Ren, H Ahn, M Kamgarpour - IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We tackle safe trajectory planning under Gaussian mixture model (GMM) uncertainty.
Specifically, we use a GMM to model the multimodal behaviors of obstacles' uncertain …

Chance-constrained optimal path planning with obstacles

L Blackmore, M Ono, BC Williams - IEEE Transactions on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous vehicles need to plan trajectories to a specified goal that avoid obstacles. For
robust execution, we must take into account uncertainty, which arises due to uncertain …

Risk-sensitive motion planning using entropic value-at-risk

A Dixit, M Ahmadi, JW Burdick - 2021 European Control …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider the problem of risk-sensitive motion planning in the presence of randomly
moving obstacles. To this end, we adopt a model predictive control (MPC) scheme and pose …

A probabilistic particle control approach to optimal, robust predictive control

L Blackmore - AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference …, 2006 - arc.aiaa.org
Autonomous vehicles need to be able to plan trajectories to a specified goal that avoid
obstacles, and are robust to the inherent uncertainty in the problem. This uncertainty arises …

Probabilistically safe motion planning to avoid dynamic obstacles with uncertain motion patterns

GS Aoude, BD Luders, JM Joseph, N Roy, JP How - Autonomous Robots, 2013 - Springer
This paper presents a real-time path planning algorithm that guarantees probabilistic
feasibility for autonomous robots with uncertain dynamics operating amidst one or more …

Non-gaussian chance-constrained trajectory planning for autonomous vehicles under agent uncertainty

A Wang, A Jasour, BC Williams - IEEE Robotics and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Agent behavior is arguably the greatest source of uncertainty in trajectory planning for
autonomous vehicles. This problem has motivated significant amounts of work in the …

A probabilistic approach to optimal robust path planning with obstacles

L Blackmore, H Li, B Williams - 2006 American Control …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous vehicles need to plan trajectories to a specified goal that avoid obstacles.
Previous approaches that used a constrained optimization approach to solve for finite …

Probabilistic constraint tightening techniques for trajectory planning with predictive control

N Goulet, Q Wang, B Ayalew - Journal of the Franklin Institute, 2022 - Elsevier
In order for automated mobile vehicles to navigate in the real world with minimal collision
risks, it is necessary for their planning algorithms to consider uncertainties from …