Inverting the pose forecasting pipeline with SPF2: Sequential pointcloud forecasting for sequential pose forecasting

X Weng, J Wang, S Levine, K Kitani… - Conference on robot …, 2021 - proceedings.mlr.press
Many autonomous systems forecast aspects of the future in order to aid decision-making.
For example, self-driving vehicles and robotic manipulation systems often forecast future …

Deep generative modeling of lidar data

L Caccia, H Van Hoof, A Courville… - 2019 IEEE/RSJ …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Building models capable of generating structured output is a key challenge for AI and
robotics. While generative models have been explored on many types of data, little work has …

Low‐cost solid‐state LiDAR/inertial‐based localization with prior map for autonomous systems in urban scenarios

Y Zhong, F Huang, J Zhang, W Wen… - IET Intelligent Transport …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A low‐cost and accurate positioning solution is significant for the massive deployment of
fully autonomous driving vehicles (ADV). Conventional mechanical LiDAR has proven its …

[PDF][PDF] Sequential forecasting of 100,000 points

X Weng, J Wang, S Levine, K Kitani… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - researchgate.net
Predicting the future is a crucial first step to effective control, since systems that can predict
the future can select plans that lead to desired outcomes. In this work, we study the problem …

Hybrid methodology for path planning and computational vision applied to autonomous mission: A new approach

FO Coelho, MF Pinto, JPC Souza, ALM Marcato - Robotica, 2020 - cambridge.org
In recent years, mobile robots have become increasingly frequent in daily life applications,
such as cleaning, surveillance, support for the elderly and people with disabilities, as well as …

Scalable primitives for generalized sensor fusion in autonomous vehicles

S Sidhu, L Wang, T Naseer, A Malhotra, J Chia… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
In autonomous driving, there has been an explosion in the use of deep neural networks for
perception, prediction and planning tasks. As autonomous vehicles (AVs) move closer to …

Simulation-to-Reality domain adaptation for offline 3D object annotation on pointclouds with correlation alignment

W Zhang, BR Kiran, T Gauthier, Y Mazouz… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Annotating objects with 3D bounding boxes in LiDAR pointclouds is a costly human driven
process in an autonomous driving perception system. In this paper, we present a method to …

[PDF][PDF] Towards Modular and Differentiable Autonomous Driving

X Weng - 2022 - kilthub.cmu.edu
The classical “modular and cascaded” autonomy stack (object detection, then tracking,
trajectory prediction, then motion planning and control) has been widely used in industry for …