9 papers
Safe and Real-Time Consistent Planning for Autonomous Vehicles in Partially Observed Environments via Parallel Consensus Optimization
Lei Zheng, Rui Yang, Minzhe Zheng +2
Ensuring safety and driving consistency is a significant challenge for autonomous vehicles operating in partially observed environments. This work introduces a consistent parallel…
Safe and Nonconservative Contingency Planning for Autonomous Vehicles via Online Learning-Based Reachable Set Barriers
Rui Yang, Lei Zheng, Shuzhi Sam Ge +1
Autonomous vehicles must navigate dynamically uncertain environments while balancing safety and efficiency. This challenge is exacerbated by unpredictable human-driven vehicle (HV)…
Occlusion-Aware Consistent Model Predictive Control for Robot Navigation in Occluded Obstacle-Dense Environments
Minzhe Zheng, Lei Zheng, Lei Zhu +1
Ensuring safety and motion consistency for robot navigation in occluded, obstacle-dense environments is a critical challenge. In this context, this study presents an occlusion-awar…
Contingency Planning for Safety-Critical Autonomous Vehicles: A Review and Perspectives
Lei Zheng, Luyao Zhang, Peiqi Yu +4
Contingency planning is the architectural capability that enables autonomous vehicles (AVs) to anticipate and mitigate discrete, high-impact hazards, such as sensor outages and adv…
Occlusion-Aware Contingency Safety-Critical Planning for Autonomous Driving
Lei Zheng, Rui Yang, Minzhe Zheng +3
Ensuring safe driving while maintaining travel efficiency for autonomous vehicles in dynamic and occluded environments is a critical challenge. This paper proposes an occlusion-awa…
Barrier-Enhanced Parallel Homotopic Trajectory Optimization for Safety-Critical Autonomous Driving
Lei Zheng, Rui Yang, Michael Yu Wang +1
Enforcing safety while preventing overly conservative behaviors is essential for autonomous vehicles to achieve high task performance. In this paper, we propose a barrier-enhanced…