Semantics for robotic mapping, perception and interaction: A survey

S Garg, N Sünderhauf, F Dayoub… - … and Trends® in …, 2020 - nowpublishers.com
For robots to navigate and interact more richly with the world around them, they will likely
require a deeper understanding of the world in which they operate. In robotics and related …

Efficient deep reinforcement learning with imitative expert priors for autonomous driving

Z Huang, J Wu, C Lv - IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is a promising way to achieve human-like autonomous
driving. However, the low sample efficiency and difficulty of designing reward functions for …

Autonomous vehicle decision-making and control in complex and unconventional scenarios—a review

F Sana, NL Azad, K Raahemifar - Machines, 2023 - mdpi.com
The development of autonomous vehicles (AVs) is becoming increasingly important as the
need for reliable and safe transportation grows. However, in order to achieve level 5 …

Learning multimodal rewards from rankings

V Myers, E Biyik, N Anari… - Conference on robot …, 2022 - proceedings.mlr.press
Learning from human feedback has shown to be a useful approach in acquiring robot
reward functions. However, expert feedback is often assumed to be drawn from an …

Compositional learning and verification of neural network controllers

R Ivanov, K Jothimurugan, S Hsu, S Vaidya… - ACM Transactions on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Recent advances in deep learning have enabled data-driven controller design for
autonomous systems. However, verifying safety of such controllers, which are often hard-to …

DQ-GAT: Towards safe and efficient autonomous driving with deep Q-learning and graph attention networks

P Cai, H Wang, Y Sun, M Liu - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous driving in multi-agent dynamic traffic scenarios is challenging: the behaviors of
road users are uncertain and are hard to model explicitly, and the ego-vehicle should apply …

A safe hierarchical planning framework for complex driving scenarios based on reinforcement learning

J Li, L Sun, J Chen, M Tomizuka… - 2021 IEEE International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous vehicles need to handle various traffic conditions and make safe and efficient
decisions and maneuvers. However, on the one hand, a single optimization/sampling-based …

Safety-assured speculative planning with adaptive prediction

X Liu, R Jiao, Y Wang, Y Han… - 2023 IEEE/RSJ …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently significant progress has been made in vehicle prediction and planning algorithms
for autonomous driving. However, it remains quite challenging for an autonomous vehicle to …

DRL-GAT-SA: Deep reinforcement learning for autonomous driving planning based on graph attention networks and simplex architecture

Y Peng, G Tan, H Si, J Li - Journal of Systems Architecture, 2022 - Elsevier
Self-driving cars need to make decisions while sharing the road with human drivers whose
behavior is uncertain. However, the presence of uncertainty leads to a trade-off between two …

Prediction-based reachability for collision avoidance in autonomous driving

A Li, L Sun, W Zhan, M Tomizuka… - 2021 IEEE International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Safety is an important topic in autonomous driving since any collision may cause serious
injury to people and damage to property. Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) Reachability is a formal …