Continuous decision making for on-road autonomous driving under uncertain and interactive environments

J Chen, C Tang, L Xin, SE Li… - 2018 IEEE Intelligent …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Although autonomous driving techniques have achieved great improvements, challenges
still exist in decision making for variety of different scenarios under uncertain and interactive …

Generating comfortable, safe and comprehensible trajectories for automated vehicles in mixed traffic

M Naumann, M Lauer, C Stiller - 2018 21st International …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
While motion planning approaches for automated driving often focus on safety and
mathematical optimality with respect to technical parameters, they barely consider …

Interaction-aware behavior planning for autonomous vehicles validated with real traffic data

J Li, L Sun, W Zhan… - Dynamic Systems …, 2020 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) need to interact with other traffic participants who can be either
cooperative or aggressive, attentive or inattentive. Such different characteristics can lead to …

Smooth behavioral estimation for ramp merging control in autonomous driving

C Dong, JM Dolan, B Litkouhi - 2018 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cooperative driving behavior is essential for driving in traffic, especially for ramp merging,
lane changing or navigating intersections. Autonomous vehicles should also man-age these …

Reliable, robust, and comprehensive risk assessment framework for urban autonomous driving

S Noh, K An - Journal of Computational Design and Engineering, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Urban autonomous driving is both complex and dangerous. A multitude of road types, road
users, and potential traffic rule violations all make it challenging for an autonomous vehicle …

Safety-Aware Human-in-the-Loop Reinforcement Learning With Shared Control for Autonomous Driving

W Huang, H Liu, Z Huang, C Lv - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The learning from intervention (LfI) approach has been proven effective in improving the
performance of RL algorithms; nevertheless, existing methodologies in this domain tend to …

RACP: Risk-Aware Contingency Planning with Multi-Modal Predictions

KA Mustafa, DJ Ornia, J Kober… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For an autonomous vehicle to operate reliably within real-world traffic scenarios, it is
imperative to assess the repercussions of its prospective actions by anticipating the …

Adaptive sampling-based motion planning with a non-conservatively defensive strategy for autonomous driving

Z Li, W Zhan, L Sun, CY Chan, M Tomizuka - IFAC-PapersOnLine, 2020 - Elsevier
Sampling-based motion planning methods are widely adopted in autonomous driving.
Typically, sampling can be decoupled into two layers: a path sampling layer and a speed …

Design space of behaviour planning for autonomous driving

M Ilievski, S Sedwards, A Gaurav… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
We explore the complex design space of behaviour planning for autonomous driving.
Design choices that successfully address one aspect of behaviour planning can critically …

Consistency and stability of hierarchical planning and control systems for autonomous driving

P Polack - 2018 - pastel.hal.science
Autonomous vehicles are believed to reduce the number of deaths and casualties on the
roads while improving the traffic efficiency. However, before their mass deployment on open …