Autonomous Driving

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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.

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  1. karl. -- A Research Vehicle for Automated and Connected Driving

    Feb 9, 2026Jean-Pierre Busch, Lukas Ostendorf, Guido Linden +5Intelligent Transportation SystemsAutonomous Driving

    Institute for Automotive Engineering (ika), RWTH Aachen University, Germany

  2. Learning to Drive in New Cities Without Human Demonstrations

    Feb 9, 2026Zilin Wang, Saeed Rahmani, Daphne Cornelisse +4Autonomous DrivingSelf-Play RL

    WhiRL, University of Oxford · FLAIR, University of Oxford · Delft University of Technology +1

  3. HERMES: A Holistic End-to-End Risk-Aware Multimodal Embodied System with Vision-Language Models for Long-Tail Autonomous Driving

    Feb 1, 2026Weizhe Tang, Junwei You, Jiaxi Liu +7Long-Tail Autonomous DrivingVLMs for Autonomous Driving

    Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI 53711 USA

  4. FlexMap: Robust HD Map Construction under Flexible Camera Configurations

    Jan 29, 2026Run Wang, Chaoyi Zhou, Amir Salarpour +5HD Map ConstructionAutonomous Driving

    School of Computing, Clemson University · 2Tacoma School of Engineering and Technology, University of Washington

  5. Preference-Conditioned Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning for Tactical Decision Making in Heavy-Duty Vehicles

    Jan 26, 2026Deepthi Pathare, Leo Laine, Morteza Haghir ChehreghaniMulti-Objective Reinforcement LearningRL for Autonomous Driving

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering Chalmers University of Technology and and University of Gothenburg · Department of Mechanics and Maritime Sciences Chalmers University of Technology

  6. Evolutionary Physics-Informed Temporal Fusion for Lane-Change Intention Prediction

    Dec 30, 2025Jiazhao Shi, Qiyang Xie, Ziyu Wang +7Autonomous DrivingPhysics-Informed ML

    Tandon School of Engineering New York University New York, USA · Khoury College of Computer Science Northeastern University Boston, USA · School of Business Wake Forest University Winston Salem, USA +6

  7. A Convex Obstacle Avoidance Formulation

    Dec 15, 2025Ricardo Tapia, Iman SoltaniCollision AvoidanceNonlinear MPC

    Laboratory for AI, Robotics and Automation, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA 95616 USA

  8. Closing the Navigation Compliance Gap in End-to-end Autonomous Driving

    Dec 11, 2025Hanfeng Wu, Marlon Steiner, Michael Schmidt +2Autonomous DrivingAutonomous Driving Planning

    Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Karlsruhe, Germany · BMW Group Munich, Germany

  9. WaymoQA: A Multi-View Visual Question Answering Dataset for Safety-Critical Reasoning in Autonomous Driving

    Nov 25, 2025Seungjun Yu, Seonho Lee, Namho Kim +5Autonomous Driving DatasetsVisual Question Answering

    KAIST Seoul, Republic of Korea · Hanyang University Seoul, Republic of Korea

  10. GraphPilot: Grounded Scene Graph Conditioning for Language-Based Autonomous Driving

    Nov 14, 2025Fabian Schmidt, Markus Enzweiler, Abhinav ValadaVision-Language ModelsVLMs for Autonomous Driving

    Esslingen University of Applied Sciences · University of Freiburg

  11. Zero-Human Demonstration End-to-end Autonomous Driving with Trajectory Scorer

    Oct 28, 2025Zhenxin Li, Nadine Chang, Wenhao Yao +9Long-Tail Autonomous DrivingReinforcement Learning

    Institute of Trustworthy Embodied AI, Fudan University · *Work done during an internship at NVIDIA. · NVIDIA +3

  12. OmniNWM: Omniscient Driving Navigation World Models

    Oct 21, 2025Bohan Li, Zhuang Ma, Dalong Du +10Action-Conditioned Video GenerationWorld Model Learning

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Ningbo Institute of Digital Twin, Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo, China · PhiGent +3

  13. Safe Driving in Occluded Environments

    Oct 15, 2025Zhuoyuan Wang, Tongyao Jia, Pharuj Rajborirug +5Autonomous Driving

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon Universty · Faculty of Medicine, King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Thailand · Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering, Nagoya University, Japan

  14. Injecting Hallucinations in Autonomous Vehicles: A Component-Agnostic Safety Evaluation Framework

    Oct 9, 2025Alexandre Moreira Nascimento, Gabriel Kenji Godoy Shimanuki, Lúcio Flavio Vismari +5Autonomous Driving Safety EvaluationAutonomous Driving

    Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo 05508-010, Brazil · Center for Design Research, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford, CA 94305 USA · Department of Communication, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33124 USA +1

  15. Learn2Drive: A neural network-based framework for socially compliant automated vehicle control

    Sep 30, 2025Yuhui Liu, Samannita Halder, Shian Wang +1Intelligent Transportation SystemsAutonomous Driving

    Department of Civil Engineering Saint Louis University · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Saint Louis University · Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering The University of Kansas

  16. AdaThinkDrive: Adaptive Thinking via Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Driving

    Sep 17, 2025Yuechen Luo, Fang Li, Shaoqing Xu +11Autonomous DrivingReasoning for VLA Models

    Tsinghua University · Xiaomi EV · Nanyang Technological University +2

  17. Drive As You Like: Multi-Head Diffusion with Reinforcement Learning for Personalized Driving

    Aug 23, 2025Ding Fan, Xuewen Luo, Hwa Hui Tew +3Autonomous Driving PlanningAutonomous Driving

    Monash University, Malaysia · University of Utah, USA · Monash University, Australia

  18. ROVR-Open-Dataset: A Large-Scale Depth Dataset for Autonomous Driving

    Aug 19, 2025Xianda Guo, Ruijun Zhang, Yiqun Duan +9Autonomous Driving DatasetsDepth Estimation

    School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, China · Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA), China · University of Technology Sydney, Australia +6

  19. OEL-AD: An Online Evolutive Learning Framework for Cross-Region Adaptive Autonomous Driving

    Aug 15, 2025Jiayue Jin, Lang Qian, Jingyu Zhang +2Autonomous DrivingAdaptive Learning

    College of Intelligent Robotics and Advanced Manufacturing, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

  20. Agentic Vehicles for Human-Centered Mobility: Definition, Prospects, and Synergistic Co-Development with Vehicle Autonomy

    Jul 7, 2025Jiangbo Yu, Raphael Frank, Luis Miranda-Moreno +6Autonomous DrivingHuman-Centered AI

    Department of Civil Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A 0C3, Canada · Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT), University of Luxembourg, L-4365 Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg

  21. Generative AI for Autonomous Driving: A Review

    May 21, 2025Katharina Winter, Abhishek Vivekanandan, Rupert Polley +17Autonomous DrivingAutonomous Driving Planning

    Munich University of Applied Sciences, Intelligent Vehicles Lab (IVL), 80335 Munich, Germany · FZI Research Center for Information Technology, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany · Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH, Guericke Str.7, 60488 Frankfurt a. M., Germany +6

  22. Generative AI for Autonomous Driving: Frontiers and Opportunities

    May 13, 2025Yuping Wang, Shuo Xing, Cui Can +46Autonomous DrivingAutonomous Driving Scenario Generation

  23. LightEMMA: A Longitudinal Evaluation of Vision-Language Models for Autonomous Driving

    May 1, 2025Zhijie Qiao, Haowei Li, Zhong Cao +1VLM EvaluationAutonomous Driving Benchmarks

    Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA · University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA

  24. Tube-Based Robust Control Strategy for Vision-Guided Autonomous Vehicles

    Mar 24, 2025Der-Hau LeeAutonomous DrivingRobust Control

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

  25. L2G-Map: Local-to-Global Mapping via Hierarchical Diffusion Refinement and Elliptical Bayesian Fusion

    Mar 4, 2025Siyu Li, Xinying Hong, Fei Teng +5HD Map ConstructionAutonomous Driving

    School of Automation and Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, China · School of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics and the National Engineering Research Center of Robot Visual Perception and Control Technology, Hunan University, China · College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University, China +1

  26. Highway Congestion Reduction through Reinforcement Learning Based Eulerian Headway Control

    Dec 3, 2024Yaron Veksler, Sharon Hornstein, Han Wang +2RL ControlIntelligent Transportation Systems

    Research and Development Labs, General Motors, Herzliya, Israel. · Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley.

  27. ROAD-Waymo: A Large-Scale Action Awareness Dataset for Autonomous Driving

    Nov 3, 2024Salman Khan, Izzeddin Teeti, Reza Javanmard Alitappeh +5Autonomous Driving DatasetsAutonomous Driving Benchmarks

    Oxford Brookes University · MAZUST · University of Oxford +2

  28. Human-In-The-Loop Machine Learning for Safe and Ethical Autonomous Vehicles: Principles, Challenges, and Opportunities

    Aug 22, 2024Yousef Emami, Mohammadhossein Homaei, Miguel Gutiérrez Gaitán +4Active LearningAutonomous Driving