Decision making through occluded intersections for autonomous driving

X Lin, J Zhang, J Shang, Y Wang, H Yu… - 2019 IEEE Intelligent …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Driving in unsignalized intersections poses significant challenges for autonomous vehicles,
as various uncertainties are involved. On one hand, behaviors of vehicles in the observable …

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 …

Pomdp and hierarchical options mdp with continuous actions for autonomous driving at intersections

Z Qiao, K Muelling, J Dolan… - 2018 21st …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
When applying autonomous driving technology to real-world scenarios, environmental
uncertainties make the development of decision-making algorithms difficult. Modeling the …

Scalable decision making with sensor occlusions for autonomous driving

M Bouton, A Nakhaei, K Fujimura… - … on robotics and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous driving in urban areas requires avoiding other road users with only partial
observability of the environment. Observations are only partial because obstacles can …

Predictive trajectory planning in situations with hidden road users using partially observable markov decision processes

P Schörner, L Töttel, J Doll… - 2019 IEEE Intelligent …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
State of the art emergency brake assistant systems solely based on sensor measurements
reduced the number of traffic accidents and casualties drastically in recent years. In order to …

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 …

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 …

Towards autonomous navigation of unsignalized intersections under uncertainty of human driver intent

V Sezer, T Bandyopadhyay, D Rus… - 2015 IEEE/RSJ …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In a mixed environment of autonomous driverless vehicles and human driven vehicles
operating on the same road, identifying intentions of human drivers and interacting with …

A POMDP maneuver planner for occlusions in urban scenarios

C Hubmann, N Quetschlich, J Schulz… - 2019 IEEE Intelligent …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Behavior planning in urban environments must consider the various existing uncertainties in
an explicit way. This work proposes a behavior planner, based on a POMDP formulation …

Pedestrian collision avoidance system for scenarios with occlusions

M Schratter, M Bouton… - 2019 IEEE Intelligent …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Safe autonomous driving in urban areas requires robust algorithms to avoid collisions with
other traffic participants with limited perception ability. Current deployed approaches relying …