Socially-compatible behavior design of autonomous vehicles with verification on real human data

L Wang, L Sun, M Tomizuka… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As more and more autonomous vehicles (AVs) are being deployed on public roads,
designing socially compatible behaviors for them is becoming increasingly important. In …

Tree-structured policy planning with learned behavior models

Y Chen, P Karkus, B Ivanovic, X Weng… - … on Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) need to reason about the multimodal behavior of neighboring
agents while planning their own motion. Many existing trajectory planners seek a single …

Courteous autonomous cars

L Sun, W Zhan, M Tomizuka… - 2018 IEEE/RSJ …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Typically, autonomous cars optimize for a combination of safety, efficiency, and driving
quality. But as we get better at this optimization, we start seeing behavior go from too …

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 …

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 …

Intention prediction and mixed strategy nash equilibrium-based decision-making framework for autonomous driving in uncontrolled intersection

J Nan, W Deng, B Zheng - IEEE Transactions on Vehicular …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Decision-making in uncontrolled intersection is one of the main challenges in urban
autonomous driving. This paper proposed a new decision-making framework in uncontrolled …

Contingency games for multi-agent interaction

L Peters, A Bajcsy, CY Chiu… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Contingency planning, wherein an agent generates a set of possible plans conditioned on
the outcome of an uncertain event, is an increasingly popular way for robots to act under …

Behavior planning of autonomous cars with social perception

L Sun, W Zhan, CY Chan… - 2019 IEEE Intelligent …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous cars have to navigate in dynamic environment which can be full of
uncertainties. The uncertainties can come either from sensor limitations such as occlusions …

High-level decision making for automated highway driving via behavior cloning

L Wang, C Fernandez, C Stiller - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automated driving systems need to perform according to what human drivers expect in every
situation. A different behavior can be wrongly interpreted by other human drivers and cause …

Rule-based decision-making system for autonomous vehicles at intersections with mixed traffic environment

A Aksjonov, V Kyrki - 2021 IEEE International Intelligent …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Before autonomous vehicles are widely spread, they will share the roads with non-
autonomous cars. Furthermore, to ensure functional safety of the self-driving cars, the cause …