Autonomous Driving

Ask about this topic

Overview

Autonomous driving studies how vehicles can sense their surroundings, anticipate other road users, and choose safe, effective actions in traffic. Systems range from modular stacks that connect camera, LiDAR, and radar perception to prediction and model-predictive control, to end-to-end policies trained with imitation learning, reinforcement learning, or vision-language and world models. Researchers evaluate these methods on datasets such as nuScenes, Waymo, and Argoverse, in simulators such as CARLA and nuPlan, and through physical vehicle tests. A central challenge is turning strong benchmark results into reliable closed-loop behavior across rare events, changing conditions, and real-world deployment constraints.

Latest papers

CardsList

538 papers53 papers in the last four weeks, down 9% on the four weeks before. 0.3% of all new papers.

  1. Learned Terminal Costs for Short-Horizon Model Predictive Control of Autonomous Trucks in Interactive Highway Traffic

    Oct 29, 2026Hooman Hamze, Benjamin Houshmand, Deepthi Pathare +3Autonomous DrivingModel Predictive Control

    Chalmers University of Technology · University of Gothenburg · Trucks Technology and Industrial Division, Volvo Group

  2. The Reality Gap in Automated Driving Systems Testing: Landscape, Challenges, and Research Directions

    Oct 28, 2026Stefano Carlo Lambertenghi, Oliver Weissl, Johannes Betz +1Autonomous Driving SimulationAutonomous Driving

    Technical University of Munich, Boltzmannstraße 3, Garching, Bavaria, Germany, 85748 · fortiss GmbH, Boltzmannstraße 3, Garching, Bavaria, Germany, 85748 · NorCom GmbH & Co. KGaA, Boltzmannstraße 3, Garching, Bavaria, Germany, 85748 +1

  3. Structured Representation Probing for Risk Anticipation in End-to-End Autonomous Driving

    Oct 27, 2026Jiawei Liang, Tianrui Lou, Le Yang +3Autonomous DrivingAutonomous Driving Safety Evaluation

    School of Cyber Science and Technology, Shenzhen Campus of Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen 518107, China · School of Mathematics, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China

  4. Learning Side-by-Side Navigation for Personal Mobility Vehicles from Human Drivers

    Oct 27, 2026Luis Yoichi Morales, Florent FerreriMulti-Robot Motion PlanningAutonomous Driving

  5. Revisiting Direct Control: A Field Evaluation of Sensor Fusion Efficacy in Teleoperating Full-Scale Autonomous Vehicles via Bird's Eye View

    Oct 26, 2026Stanisław Kuczma, Sławomir K. Tadeja, Michał R. NowickiRobot TeleoperationBird's-Eye-View Representation

    Pozna´n University of Technology. · Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  6. A Differentiable Chassis Safety Layer for Intelligent Vehicle Motion Control

    Oct 24, 2026Lu Xiong, Xuge Hu, Yufei Song +2Safety-Critical ControlAutonomous Driving

    Key Laboratory of Road and Traffic Engineering of the Ministry of Education, Tongji University, Shanghai, China · College of Automotive and Energy Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

  7. Interpretable Collision Avoidance and Feasibility Guarantees through an Uncertainty Aware Pipeline

    Oct 23, 2026Doris Xu, Jin Hyun Park, Guadalupe Alvarado Fernandez +2Safe Motion PlanningRobot Collision Avoidance

    The authors are with the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14850.

  8. Cross-Scenario Controller Parameter Transformation from Real-World Driving Data through Flow Matching

    Oct 23, 2026Christian Zink, Maik Pfefferkorn, Eric Lenz +2Autonomous DrivingFlow Matching

    Control and Cyber-Physical Systems Laboratory, Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany · Driver Assistance Systems Predevelopment, Volkswagen AG, Wolfsburg, Germany

  9. Robust Offset-Free Lane-Keeping Control Framework for Vision-Only Automated Vehicles

    Oct 23, 2026Der-Hau LeeAutonomous DrivingModel Predictive Control

    Department of Electrophysics, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan

  10. DriveMind: Mind-Evolving Belief Tracking for Closed-Loop Autonomous Driving

    Oct 23, 2026Yan Shi, Kehua Chen, Jiarui Qi +3Autonomous DrivingVLMs for Autonomous Driving

    University of Washington · McGill University · University of Michigan

  11. Silence Is Not Assurance: When Production Lane Keeping Assist Does Not Warn, and What It Costs

    Oct 22, 2026Tianjia Yang, Yuxin Ding, Ke Li +3Autonomous Driving Safety EvaluationAutonomous Driving

    Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA · Department of Civil Engineering, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA

  12. Integrated Longitudinal and Lateral Control for High-Speed Platooning of Articulated Vehicles

    Oct 21, 2026Aashish Shaju, Steve Southward, Mehdi AhmadianAutonomous DrivingIntelligent Transportation Systems

    Center for Vehicle Systems and Safety (CVeSS), Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24060, USA

  13. Foundation4D: Towards a unified perception and reconstruction model for autonomous vehicles

    Oct 21, 2026NVIDIA, :, Sérgio Agostinho +25Autonomous Driving Perception4D Scene Understanding

    NVIDIA

  14. Deep Learning-Based Road Lane Quality Assessment from Egocentric Dashcam Video

    Oct 20, 2026Shaif Chowdhury, Akhila Yeruvasu, Moshiur Rahman Tonmoy +2Image Quality AssessmentAutonomous Driving Datasets

    Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Texas A&M University–Kingsville, Kingsville, TX 78363, USA

  15. PCLA-Bridge: A Framework for Cross-Domain Deployment of CARLA Agents

    Oct 20, 2026Masoud Jamshidiyan Tehrani, Jinhan Kim, Paolo TonellaAutonomous DrivingAutonomous Driving Simulation

    Universit`a della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland

  16. When Does Experience Memory Help Closed-Loop LLM Driving Agents? A Controlled Evaluation with Resampled Warmup Pools, Token-Matched Fillers, and Audited Baselines

    Oct 20, 2026Yingxin Jia, Xuanyi LiMemory-Augmented Language Model AgentsLLM Agent Evaluation

    Independent Researchers

  17. A Semantic Knowledge Graph Construction Pipeline for Vehicle Intention Prediction in nuScenes

    Oct 19, 2026Khaled Nowara, Mohamed Manzour, Catherine EliasKG ConstructionAutonomous Driving

    German University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt · Computer Engineering Department, University of Alcalá, Madrid, Spain

  18. Comfortably Stuck: Evaluation Pitfalls in Bench2Drive's Closed-Loop Protocol

    Oct 15, 2026Emad Aghajanzadeh, Thomas Schwarzfischer, Moritz Thoma +5Autonomous Driving BenchmarksBenchmark Design

    BMW Group, Munich, Germany · Technical University of Munich (TUM), Munich, Germany · Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), Vienna, Austria

  19. SafeDriveVLA: Navigation-Conditioned World Model Dreaming for Conflict-Aware End-to-End Autonomous Driving

    Oct 14, 2026Shaoyuan Xie, Zihan Zhang, Jingxuan Wang +6Autonomous DrivingEnd-to-End Autonomous Driving

    UC Irvine · UC San Diego · University of Cincinnati +1

  20. Automatic Cause Determination in Road Scene Understanding Using Qualitative Reasoning and Four-Valued Logic

    Oct 14, 2026Nassim Belmecheri, Arnaud Gotlieb, Nadjib Lazaar +1Autonomous DrivingCausal Reasoning in Videos

    Simula Research Laboratory, Oslo, Norway · LISN, Université Paris-Saclay, Saclay, France

  21. Investigating Behavior Cloning from Few Demonstrations for Autonomous Driving based on Bird's-Eye View in Simulated Cities

    Oct 14, 2026Eric Aislan Antonelo, Gustavo Claudio Karl Couto, Christian Möller +1Instance ReweightingAutonomous Driving

    Automation and Systems Engineering Department, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil · Faculty of Science and Engineering, Information Technology Åbo Akademi University, Finland

  22. MakSafe: A Spatiotemporal Semantic Framework for Formal Specification and Compliance Checking of Road Vehicle Safety Rules

    Oct 14, 2026Maksym Labzhaniia, Julien Deantoni, Marie-Agn{è}s Peraldi-Frati +1Autonomous Driving Safety EvaluationFormal Verification

    UniCA, Laboratoire I3S - COMRED, KAIROS · Laboratoire I3S - COMRED, I3S, KAIROS, UniCA

  23. Comprehensive Comparisons of Reinforcement Learning Algorithms in Autonomous Driving

    Oct 14, 2026Dechen Xie, Mushuang LiuRL for Autonomous DrivingAutonomous Driving

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24060, USA

  24. MonoMIP: Multi-Height Inverse Perspective Mapping for Monocular 3D Object Detection

    Oct 13, 2026Emir Ulurak, Furkan KıraçMonocular 3D Object DetectionAutonomous Driving

    Ozyegin University, Istanbul, Turkey

  25. A Hardware-Partitioned micro-ROS Mini-Vehicle for Operator-Supervised Neural Driving

    Oct 11, 2026Gustavo Claudio Karl Couto, Eric Aislan Antonelo, Gabriel George ZippererRoboticsAutonomous Driving

    Automation and Systems Engineering Department Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil

  26. Model-Based Trailer-Sway Suppression for Autonomous Passenger Vehicles

    Oct 11, 2026Alec McFadyen, Pablo Covarrubias De La Torre, Connor McGovernVehicle DynamicsAutonomous Driving

    Boston, Massachusetts

  27. YOUDrive: Driving Style as a Composable Direction for End-to-End Autonomous Driving

    Oct 10, 2026Guantian Zheng, Lidong Yu, Tianyu Gao +3Autonomous DrivingAutonomous Driving Planning

    AutoMan Lab, Nanyang Technological University · Neolix · City University of Hong Kong +1

  28. Tracking the Invisible: Self-Supervised Wheel Track Detection with Thermal-RGB Fusion

    Oct 9, 2026Yiming Yang, Jeremy P. BosAutonomous Driving PerceptionAutonomous Driving

  29. MeshBind: Point-to-Mesh Binding for Non-Rigid Scene Flow Automatic Annotation

    Oct 9, 2026Yinqi Chen, E Li, Shuaijun Wang +3Autonomous Driving

  30. Trajectory Prediction for Autonomous Driving in Road Construction Zones Using Human-in-the-Loop Driving Data

    Oct 8, 2026Shuo Zhang, Aman Sunesh, Semiha Ergan +1Vehicle Trajectory PredictionAutonomous Driving

    New York University New York City, NY, USA · New York University New York, USA