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 …

Occlusion-aware planning for autonomous driving with vehicle-to-everything communication

C Zhang, F Steinhauser, G Hinz… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Navigating safely through occlusion scenarios remains challenging for Autonomous
Vehicles (AVs) due to onboard sensors with obstructed Fields of View (FoVs). Integrating …

Is anyone there? learning a planner contingent on perceptual uncertainty

C Packer, N Rhinehart, RT McAllister… - … on Robot Learning, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Robots in complex multi-agent environments should reason about the intentions of observed
and currently unobserved agents. In this paper, we present a new learning-based method …

Traffic mirror-aware pomdp behavior planning for autonomous urban driving

C Zhang, F Steinhauser, G Hinz… - 2022 IEEE Intelligent …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Driving autonomous vehicles safely through a complex urban environment remains a
difficult task. The sensor limitations, as well as the various occlusions in the urban …

Occlusion-aware motion planning for autonomous driving

D Wang, W Fu, J Zhou, Q Song - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Motion planning for autonomous vehicles remains a challenge in urban road environments
with occlusions. In this study, we present a motion planning framework that prioritizes safety …

Reasoning about potential hidden traffic participants by tracking occluded areas

L Wang, C Burger, C Stiller - 2021 IEEE International Intelligent …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous vehicles face big challenges guaranteeing provable safety during driving. One
of the major problems is the uncertainty arising from the perception of the surrounding …

Occlusion-aware motion planning with visibility maximization via active lateral position adjustment

P Narksri, H Darweesh, E Takeuchi, Y Ninomiya… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As the operational domain of autonomous vehicles expands, encountering occlusions
during navigation becomes unavoidable. Most of the existing research on occlusion-aware …

Improved occlusion scenario coverage with a POMDP-based behavior planner for autonomous urban driving

C Zhang, F Steinhauser, G Hinz… - 2021 IEEE International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Safely driving through various occlusion scenarios in urban environments, such as bus
stops or crosswalks, is challenging for autonomous vehicles (AVs). Improving the ability to …

Looking for trouble: Informative planning for safe trajectories with occlusions

B Gilhuly, A Sadeghi, P Yedmellat… - … on Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Planning a safe trajectory for an ego vehicle through an environment with occluded regions
is a challenging task. Existing methods use some combination of metrics to evaluate a …