This paper describes and evaluates the use of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) for path planning in support of smart mobility applications such as indoor and outdoor navigation applications, individualized wayfinding for people with disabilities (e.g., vision impairments, physical disabilities, etc.), path planni…
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DiffSlack learns neural networks with nonlinear constraints via learnable slack variables.
problem Enforcing nonlinear inequality constraints in neural networks.
method DiffSlack reformulates inequalities as equalities with learnable slack variables, predicting them as part of the network output.
result DiffSlack achieves higher planning success rates and stronger geometric constraint satisfaction compared to existing methods.
Owing to the expeditious growth in the information and communication technologies, smart cities have raised the expectations in terms of efficient functioning and management. One key aspect of residents' daily comfort is assured through affording reliable traffic management and route planning. Comprehensively, the majo…
Informative Path Planning for Extreme Anomaly Detection in Environment Exploration and Monitoringstat.ML
Novel path planning improves UAV detection of extreme anomalies.
problem Improper criteria for UAV anomaly detection.
method Mathematical criteria guiding UAV towards strong anomalies.
result Proposed approach outperforms traditional methods in various applications.
The paper optimizes UAV path and power for QoS in cellular networks.
problem Optimizing UAV path and power for QoS in cellular networks.
method Apprenticeship learning via deep inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) combined with Q-learning and DRL.
result The proposed method achieves expert-level performance and maintains performance in unseen situations.
This paper surveys DRL for autonomous vehicle motion planning.
problem Designing intelligent motion planning for autonomous vehicles.
method Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) for hierarchical motion planning.
result Survey of state-of-the-art DRL solutions for autonomous vehicle motion planning.
New method combines heuristics and search techniques to speed up cooperative planning for autonomous vehicles.
problem Efficient cooperative planning for autonomous vehicles in complex traffic scenarios.
method Combining learned heuristics with Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) to guide search towards promising actions.
result Better solutions at lower computational costs achieved through accelerated planning.
Exploring Deep Learning Approaches to Predict Person and Vehicle Trips: An Analysis of NHTS Datacs.AI
Deep learning improves trip prediction accuracy in transportation planning.
problem Traditional models fail to accurately predict person and vehicle trips due to complexity and dynamics.
method Developed and trained a deep learning model using NHTS data.
result Deep learning model achieved 98% accuracy for person trip prediction and 96% for vehicle trip estimation.
Paper proposes methods to help autonomous vehicles adapt to unexpected driving scenarios.
problem Autonomous vehicles struggle with unexpected driving conditions.
method Robust imitative planning (RIP) and adaptive robust imitative planning (AdaRIP) methods to detect and adapt to distribution shifts.
result Methods outperform current state-of-the-art approaches in nuScenes prediction challenge.
We investigate the multi-step prediction of the drivable space, represented by Occupancy Grid Maps (OGMs), for autonomous vehicles. Our motivation is that accurate multi-step prediction of the drivable space can efficiently improve path planning and navigation resulting in safe, comfortable and optimum paths in autonom…
Neural A* uses machine learning to improve path planning efficiency.
problem Challenges in applying machine learning to search-based path planning.
method Reformulated A* search as a differentiable network coupled with a convolutional encoder.
result Neural A* outperforms state-of-the-art planners in optimality and efficiency.
One-shot path planning for multiple agents using neural networks.
problem Efficiently generating optimal or near-optimal paths for multiple agents in robotics.
method Utilizes fully convolutional neural networks for one-shot multi-agent path planning.
result Demonstrates successful generation of optimal or near-optimal paths in over 85% of cases for multi-path planning.
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are on the road. To safely and efficiently interact with other road participants, AVs have to accurately predict the behavior of surrounding vehicles and plan accordingly. Such prediction should be probabilistic, to address the uncertainties in human behavior. Such prediction should also be in…
The paper reviews machine learning safety techniques for autonomous vehicles.
problem Challenges in machine learning safety for autonomous vehicles.
method Organizes practical safety techniques to complement engineering safety.
result Enhances dependability and safety of machine learning algorithms in autonomous vehicles.
Deep network solves maze path planning without training.
problem Efficient path planning in large mazes with obstacles.
method Max pooling layers without training.
result Solves mazes with over half a billion nodes in short time.
Automated road infrastructure mapping using connected vehicle data and deep learning.
problem Manual identification of intersections is laborious and time-consuming.
method Geohashing, YOLOv5 algorithm for classification of road segments and intersections.
result Overall classification accuracy of 95%, with high F1 scores for straight roads and intersections.
Rapid growth in delivery and freight transportation is increasing in urban areas; as a result the use of delivery trucks and light commercial vehicles is evolving. Major cities can use traffic counting as a tool to monitor the presence of delivery vehicles in order to implement intelligent city planning measures. Class…
Accurately predicting future behaviors of surrounding vehicles is an essential capability for autonomous vehicles in order to plan safe and feasible trajectories. The behaviors of others, however, are full of uncertainties. Both rational and irrational behaviors exist, and the autonomous vehicles need to be aware of th…
A pedestrian path-planning model in accordance with obstacle's danger with reinforcement learningcs.LG
A novel pedestrian path-planning model using reinforcement learning.
problem Challenges in replicating natural pedestrian navigation behavior.
method Reinforcement learning for collision avoidance and path planning.
result Path planning by the agent closely resembles human pedestrian behavior.
CoMPNetX uses neural networks to efficiently solve constrained motion planning problems.
problem Finding collision-free paths on constraint manifolds efficiently.
method Neural generator and discriminator with neural gradients-based projection operator.
result CoMPNetX finds path solutions with high success rates and lower computation times.
New method predicts vehicle trajectories using map lane centers.
problem Accurate long-term vehicle trajectory prediction.
method Uses map lane centers to generate goal paths and predict trajectories.
result Model outperforms state-of-the-art approaches for 6-second horizon predictions.
Exploring applications of deep reinforcement learning for real-world autonomous driving systemscs.LG
Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has become increasingly powerful in recent years, with notable achievements such as Deepmind's AlphaGo. It has been successfully deployed in commercial vehicles like Mobileye's path planning system. However, a vast majority of work on DRL is focused on toy examples in controlled synthe…
Perceive, Predict, and Plan: Safe Motion Planning Through Interpretable Semantic Representationscs.RO
End-to-end learnable network for safer self-driving with interpretable intermediate representations.
problem Safe motion planning for self-driving vehicles.
method Differentiable semantic occupancy representation for cost calculation in motion planning.
result Significantly outperforms state-of-the-art planners in imitating human behaviors and producing safer trajectories.
Motion planning and control are key problems in a collection of robotic applications including the design of autonomous agile vehicles and of minimalist manipulators. These problems can be accurately formalized within the language of affine connections and of geometric control theory. In this paper we overview recent r…
Investment strategies in occupational pension plans are optimized for non-tradable income risk.
problem Optimizing investment strategies for occupational pension plans in the presence of non-tradable income risk.
method Formulated as a stochastic optimization problem, analyzed in both constant and stochastic volatility environments.
result Random contributions induce the optimal glide path structure, influenced by initial wealth, contributions, and risk aversion.
New machine learning pipeline solves dynamic vehicle routing problems efficiently.
problem Efficiently handling same day deliveries in e-commerce logistics.
method Combination of machine learning and combinatorial optimization.
result Ranked first in the EURO Meets NeurIPS Vehicle Routing Competition.
The paper proposes a model to forecast traffic motion from sensor data.
problem Accurately predicting traffic motion for safe vehicle maneuvers.
method Implicit latent variable model using interaction graphs and graph neural networks.
result Achieves state-of-the-art motion forecasting and interaction understanding.
We propose a method to compute optimal control paths for autonomous vehicles deployed for the purpose of inferring a velocity field. In addition to being advected by the flow, the vehicles are able to effect a fixed relative speed with arbitrary control over direction. It is this direction that is used as the basis for…
In a given scenario, simultaneously and accurately predicting every possible interaction of traffic participants is an important capability for autonomous vehicles. The majority of current researches focused on the prediction of an single entity without incorporating the environment information. Although some approache…
CARML uses meta-learning to avoid obstacles in 2D vehicle navigation.
problem Collision avoidance in 2D vehicle navigation.
method Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning for multi-objective reinforcement learning.
result CARML outperforms a baseline TD3 solution in obstacle avoidance.
Unified approach to path planning using probabilistic inference on factor graphs.
problem Path planning problems using probabilistic inference.
method Unified framework using probabilistic factor graphs and message composition rules.
result Unified approach includes various algorithms like Sum-product, Max-product, Dynamic programming, and mixed criteria.
Active learning reduces simulation needs for high-fidelity mobility maps.
problem Efficiently training machine learning classifiers for high-fidelity mobility maps.
method Active learning based on PAC learning theory to reduce simulation needs.
result Our sampling algorithm trains neural networks with higher accuracy using less than half the number of simulations.
UAVs learn to collect data from IoT sensors efficiently.
problem Efficient UAV path planning for wireless data collection.
method Deep reinforcement learning (DDQN) with experience replay and convolutional layers.
result UAV control policy generalizes over changing scenario parameters.
In this paper, we propose a decision making algorithm intended for automated vehicles that negotiate with other possibly non-automated vehicles in intersections. The decision algorithm is separated into two parts: a high-level decision module based on reinforcement learning, and a low-level planning module based on mod…
Intelligent motion planning is one of the core components in automated vehicles, which has received extensive interests. Traditional motion planning methods suffer from several drawbacks in terms of optimality, efficiency and generalization capability. Sampling based methods cannot guarantee the optimality of the gener…
We propose a meta path planning algorithm named \emph{Neural Exploration-Exploitation Trees~(NEXT)} for learning from prior experience for solving new path planning problems in high dimensional continuous state and action spaces. Compared to more classical sampling-based methods like RRT, our approach achieves much bet…
A new network learns to prioritize messages for efficient multi-robot path planning.
problem Efficient path planning and coordination for large-scale multi-robot systems.
method Message-Aware Graph Attention Network (MAGAT) incorporating attention mechanisms.
result MAGAT achieves performance close to a coupled centralized expert algorithm.
Predicts multiple vehicle trajectories efficiently.
problem Predicting uncertain future motions of agents in dynamic scenes.
method Probabilistic framework learning latent variables for multi-step future modeling.
result State-of-the-art predictions on vehicle trajectory datasets.
CriticSMC improves planning efficiency in constrained environments.
problem Planning with hard constraints in dynamic environments.
method Sequential Monte Carlo with learned heuristic factors.
result CriticSMC reduces collision rates with low computational cost.
Accurately predicting the possible behaviors of traffic participants is an essential capability for future autonomous vehicles. The majority of current researches fix the number of driving intentions by considering only a specific scenario. However, distinct driving environments usually contain various possible driving…
We present a representation learning algorithm that learns a low-dimensional latent dynamical system from high-dimensional \textit{sequential} raw data, e.g., video. The framework builds upon recent advances in amortized inference methods that use both an inference network and a refinement procedure to output samples f…
Proposes a new model for predicting future motion of road actors in autonomous vehicles.
problem Forecasting the long-term future motion of road actors for safe autonomous driving.
method Recurrent graph-based attentional approach with interpretable geometric and social relationships.
result Can produce diverse predictions conditioned on hypothetical or 'what-if' scenarios.
In this paper, we solve the arms exponential exploding issue in multivariate Multi-Armed Bandit (Multivariate-MAB) problem when the arm dimension hierarchy is considered. We propose a framework called path planning (TS-PP) which utilizes decision graph/trees to model arm reward success rate with m-way dimension interac…
Plan2Vec learns image representations without labels, improving control tasks.
problem Learning image representations without labeled data.
method Constructs a weighted graph using near-neighbor distances and extrapolates to global embedding.
result Plan2Vec achieves accurate long-term value estimates in control tasks with reduced computational and memory costs.
HiDe learns hierarchical control for complex tasks by separating planning and control.
problem Solving long horizon control tasks with generalization to unseen scenarios.
method Functional decomposition of state-action spaces, RL-based planner, modular transfer of policy layers.
result Generalizes across unseen test environments and scales to longer horizons.
A big challenge in environmental monitoring is the spatiotemporal variation of the phenomena to be observed. To enable persistent sensing and estimation in such a setting, it is beneficial to have a time-varying underlying environmental model. Here we present a planning and learning method that enables an autonomous ma…
Paper tackles efficient navigation in constrained environments using supervised and reinforcement learning.
problem Building learning agents that efficiently navigate in obstacle-cluttered environments.
method Synergistic use of supervised learning for path prediction and reinforcement learning for path following.
result Proposed method achieves good generalization and faster learning compared to existing work.
Value Iteration Networks (VINs) are effective differentiable path planning modules that can be used by agents to perform navigation while still maintaining end-to-end differentiability of the entire architecture. Despite their effectiveness, they suffer from several disadvantages including training instability, random …