Diffusion-ES: Gradient-free Planning with Diffusion for Autonomous and Instruction-guided Driving

B Yang, H Su, N Gkanatsios, TW Ke… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Diffusion models excel at modeling complex and multimodal trajectory distributions for
decision-making and control. Reward-gradient guided denoising has been recently …

Diffusion-es: Gradient-free planning with diffusion for autonomous driving and zero-shot instruction following

B Yang, H Su, N Gkanatsios, TW Ke, A Jain… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Diffusion models excel at modeling complex and multimodal trajectory distributions for
decision-making and control. Reward-gradient guided denoising has been recently …

PLUTO: Pushing the Limit of Imitation Learning-based Planning for Autonomous Driving

J Cheng, Y Chen, Q Chen - arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.14327, 2024 - arxiv.org
We present PLUTO, a powerful framework that pushes the limit of imitation learning-based
planning for autonomous driving. Our improvements stem from three pivotal aspects: a …

Towards learning-based planning: The nuPlan benchmark for real-world autonomous driving

N Karnchanachari, D Geromichalos, KS Tan… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Machine Learning (ML) has replaced traditional handcrafted methods for perception and
prediction in autonomous vehicles. Yet for the equally important planning task, the adoption …

A Reinforcement Learning-Boosted Motion Planning Framework: Comprehensive Generalization Performance in Autonomous Driving

R Trauth, A Hobmeier, J Betz - arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.01465, 2024 - arxiv.org
This study introduces a novel approach to autonomous motion planning, informing an
analytical algorithm with a reinforcement learning (RL) agent within a Frenet coordinate …

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 …

Driving style encoder: Situational reward adaptation for general-purpose planning in automated driving

S Rosbach, V James, S Großjohann… - … on robotics and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
General-purpose planning algorithms for automated driving combine mission, behavior, and
local motion planning. Such planning algorithms map features of the environment and …

On the Road to Portability: Compressing End-to-End Motion Planner for Autonomous Driving

K Feng, C Li, D Ren, Y Yuan… - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
End-to-end motion planning models equipped with deep neural networks have shown great
potential for enabling full autonomous driving. However the oversized neural networks …

Rethinking imitation-based planner for autonomous driving

J Cheng, Y Chen, X Mei, B Yang, B Li, M Liu - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
In recent years, imitation-based driving planners have reported considerable success.
However, due to the absence of a standardized benchmark, the effectiveness of various …

Interpretable and Flexible Target-Conditioned Neural Planners For Autonomous Vehicles

H Liu, J Zhao, L Zhang - 2023 IEEE International Conference …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Learning-based approaches to autonomous vehicle planners have the potential to scale to
many complicated real-world driving scenarios by leveraging huge amounts of driver …