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most citedCuriosity-driven Exploration for Mapless Navigation with Deep Reinforcement Learning

83 citations · 344 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

cs.CV2024★ 3 cited

Deep Learning and Machine Learning -- Object Detection and Semantic Segmentation: From Theory to Applications

Jintao Ren, Ziqian Bi, Qian Niu +16

An in-depth exploration of object detection and semantic segmentation is provided, combining theoretical foundations with practical applications. State-of-the-art advancements in m…

cs.RO2023

Improving Autonomous Driving Safety with POP: A Framework for Accurate Partially Observed Trajectory Predictions

Sheng Wang, Yingbing Chen, Jie Cheng +4

Accurate trajectory prediction is crucial for safe and efficient autonomous driving, but handling partial observations presents significant challenges. To address this, we propose…

cs.ET2023★ 2 cited

Resistive memory-based zero-shot liquid state machine for multimodal event data learning

Ning Lin, Shaocong Wang, Yi Li +19

The human brain is a complex spiking neural network (SNN), capable of learning multimodal signals in a zero-shot manner by generalizing existing knowledge. Remarkably, it maintains…

cs.RO2021★ 1 cited

DQ-GAT: Towards Safe and Efficient Autonomous Driving with Deep Q-Learning and Graph Attention Networks

Peide Cai, Hengli Wang, Yuxiang Sun +1

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 a…

cs.CV2021★ 1 cited

CP-loss: Connectivity-preserving Loss for Road Curb Detection in Autonomous Driving with Aerial Images

Zhenhua Xu, Yuxiang Sun, Lujia Wang +1

Road curb detection is important for autonomous driving. It can be used to determine road boundaries to constrain vehicles on roads, so that potential accidents could be avoided. M…

cs.RO2021★ 4 cited

Autonomous Navigation through intersections with Graph ConvolutionalNetworks and Conditional Imitation Learning for Self-driving Cars

Xiaodong Mei, Yuxiang Sun, Yuying Chen +2

In autonomous driving, navigation through unsignaled intersections with many traffic participants moving around is a challenging task. To provide a solution to this problem, we pro…

cs.RO2020

DiGNet: Learning Scalable Self-Driving Policies for Generic Traffic Scenarios with Graph Neural Networks

Peide Cai, Hengli Wang, Yuxiang Sun +1

Traditional decision and planning frameworks for self-driving vehicles (SDVs) scale poorly in new scenarios, thus they require tedious hand-tuning of rules and parameters to mainta…

cs.CV2020★ 3 cited

HGCN-GJS: Hierarchical Graph Convolutional Network with Groupwise Joint Sampling for Trajectory Prediction

Yuying Chen, Congcong Liu, Xiaodong Mei +2

Accurate pedestrian trajectory prediction is of great importance for downstream tasks such as autonomous driving and mobile robot navigation. Fully investigating the social interac…

cs.CV2020★ 10 cited

Activate or Not: Learning Customized Activation

Ningning Ma, Xiangyu Zhang, Ming Liu +1

We present a simple, effective, and general activation function we term ACON which learns to activate the neurons or not. Interestingly, we find Swish, the recent popular NAS-searc…

cs.RO2020★ 61 cited

The Role of the Hercules Autonomous Vehicle During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Autonomous Logistic Vehicle for Contactless Goods Transportation

Tianyu Liu, Qinghai Liao, Lu Gan +28

Since early 2020, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has spread rapidly across the world. As at the date of writing this article, the disease has been globally reported in 223…

cs.RO2019★ 12 cited

Movable-Object-Aware Visual SLAM via Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation

Ting Sun, Yuxiang Sun, Ming Liu +1

Moving objects can greatly jeopardize the performance of a visual simultaneous localization and mapping (vSLAM) system which relies on the static-world assumption. Motion removal h…

cs.RO2019★ 3 cited

Visual-based Autonomous Driving Deployment from a Stochastic and Uncertainty-aware Perspective

Lei Tai, Peng Yun, Yuying Chen +3

End-to-end visual-based imitation learning has been widely applied in autonomous driving. When deploying the trained visual-based driving policy, a deterministic command is usually…

cs.CV2018★ 7 cited

Real-Time Subpixel Fast Bilateral Stereo

Rui Fan, Yanan Liu, Mohammud Junaid Bocus +2

Stereo vision technique has been widely used in robotic systems to acquire 3-D information. In recent years, many researchers have applied bilateral filtering in stereo vision to a…

cs.RO2018★ 83 cited

Curiosity-driven Exploration for Mapless Navigation with Deep Reinforcement Learning

Oleksii Zhelo, Jingwei Zhang, Lei Tai +2

This paper investigates exploration strategies of Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) methods to learn navigation policies for mobile robots. In particular, we augment the normal ext…

cs.RO2017★ 6 cited

Towards continuous control of flippers for a multi-terrain robot using deep reinforcement learning

Giuseppe Paolo, Lei Tai, Ming Liu

In this paper we focus on developing a control algorithm for multi-terrain tracked robots with flippers using a reinforcement learning (RL) approach. The work is based on the deep…

cs.RO2016★ 70 cited

A Survey of Deep Network Solutions for Learning Control in Robotics: From Reinforcement to Imitation

Lei Tai, Jingwei Zhang, Ming Liu +2

Deep learning techniques have been widely applied, achieving state-of-the-art results in various fields of study. This survey focuses on deep learning solutions that target learnin…

cs.RO2016★ 78 cited

Towards Cognitive Exploration through Deep Reinforcement Learning for Mobile Robots

Lei Tai, Ming Liu

Exploration in an unknown environment is the core functionality for mobile robots. Learning-based exploration methods, including convolutional neural networks, provide excellent st…