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. Mind the Hitch: Dynamic Calibration and Articulated Perception for Autonomous Trucks

    Mar 24, 2026Morui Zhu, Yongqi Zhu, Song Fu +1Autonomous DrivingAutonomous Driving Perception

    University of North Texas

  2. Reasoning models do not yet follow their reasoning in autonomous driving: The KITScenes LongTail Dataset

    Mar 24, 2026Royden Wagner, Omer Sahin Tas, Jaime Villa +20Long-Tail Autonomous DrivingAutonomous Driving

    Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) · FZI Research Center for Information Technology · Carlos III University of Madrid +5

  3. Future-Interactions-Aware Trajectory Prediction via Braid Theory

    Mar 23, 2026Caio Azevedo, Stefano Sabatini, Sascha Hornauer +1Multi-Agent Trajectory PredictionAutonomous Driving

    Stellantis, Poissy, France. · ´Ecole des Mines de Paris, Paris, France.

  4. LRC-WeatherNet: LiDAR, RADAR, and Camera Fusion Network for Real-time Weather-type Classification in Autonomous Driving

    Mar 23, 2026Nour Alhuda Albashir, Lars Pernickel, Danial Hamoud +2Autonomous DrivingMultimodal Sensor Fusion

    Halmstad University, School of Information Technology, Center for Applied Intelligent Systems Research, Halmstad, Sweden

  5. Disengagement Analysis and Field Tests of a Prototypical Open-Source Level 4 Autonomous Driving System

    Mar 23, 2026Marvin Seegert, Christian Oefinger, Korbinian Moller +2Autonomous DrivingAutonomous Driving Safety Evaluation

    Professorship of Autonomous Vehicle Systems, TUM School of Engineering and Design, Technical University of Munich, 85748 Garching, Germany; Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI).

  6. Uncertainty Matters: Structured Probabilistic Online Mapping for Motion Prediction in Autonomous Driving

    Mar 20, 2026Pritom Gogoi, Faris Janjoš, Bin Yang +1Autonomous DrivingVehicle Trajectory Prediction

    Bosch Center for AI, Germany · University of Stuttgart, Germany · Coburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany

  7. Failure Modes for Deep Learning-Based Online Mapping: How to Measure and Address Them

    Mar 20, 2026Michael Hubbertz, Qi Han, Tobias MeisenOOD GeneralizationHD Map Construction

    University of Wuppertal · Aptiv Services Deutschland GmbH

  8. Eye Gaze-Informed and Context-Aware Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction in Shared Spaces with Automated Shuttles: A Virtual Reality Study

    Mar 20, 2026Danya Li, Yan Feng, Rico KruegerPedestrian Trajectory PredictionPedestrian Behavior Modeling

    Department of Technology, Management and Economics at the Technical University of Denmark. · Department of Transport & Planning, Civil Engineering Geosciences at Delft University of Technology.

  9. Planning Autonomous Vehicle Maneuvering in Work Zones Through Game-Theoretic Trajectory Generation

    Mar 20, 2026Mayar Nour, Atrisha Sarkar, Mohamed H. ZakiAutonomous Driving PlanningAutonomous Driving

    Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada · Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

  10. StreetForward: Perceiving Dynamic Street with Feedforward Causal Attention

    Mar 20, 2026Zhongrui Yu, Zhao Wang, Yijia Xie +4Dynamic Scene ReconstructionFeed-Forward 3D Reconstruction

    Li Auto Inc. · Zhejiang University

  11. From Virtual Environments to Real-World Trials: Emerging Trends in Autonomous Driving

    Mar 18, 2026A. Humnabadkar, A. Sikdar, B. Cave +3Autonomous DrivingAutonomous Driving Simulation

    Department of Computer Science, Edge Hill University, United Kingdom.

  12. VisionNVS: Self-Supervised Inpainting for Novel View Synthesis under the Virtual-Shift Paradigm

    Mar 18, 2026Hongbo Lu, Liang Yao, Chenghao He +4Novel View SynthesisAutonomous Driving Simulation

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · COWARobot Co. Ltd. · Hohai University

  13. When the City Teaches the Car: Label-Free 3D Perception from Infrastructure

    Mar 17, 2026Zhen Xu, Jinsu Yoo, Cristian Bautista +7Autonomous Driving3D Object Detection

    The Ohio State University · Google · Cornell University +2

  14. AW-MoE: All-Weather Mixture of Experts for Robust Multi-Modal 3D Object Detection

    Mar 17, 2026Hongwei Lin, Xun Huang, Chenglu Wen +13D Object DetectionAutonomous Driving

    Fujian Key Laboratory of Urban Intelligent Sensing and Computing and the School of Informatics, Xiamen University, Xiamen, FJ 361005, China · Zhongguancun Academy, Beijing, China

  15. The Era of End-to-End Autonomy: Transitioning from Rule-Based Driving to Large Driving Models

    Mar 17, 2026Eduardo Nebot, Julie Stephany Berrio PerezEnd-to-End Autonomous DrivingAutonomous Driving

    The Australian Centre for Robotics, School of Aeronautical, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, The University of Sydney, Australia

  16. Safety Case Patterns for VLA-based driving systems: Insights from SimLingo

    Mar 16, 2026Gerhard Yu, Fuyuki Ishikawa, Oluwafemi Odu +1Autonomous Driving Safety EvaluationAutonomous Driving

    York University, North York ON M3J 1P3, Canada · National Institute of Informatics, Chiyoda City Tokyo 101-8430, Japan

  17. ADV-0: Closed-Loop Min-Max Adversarial Training for Long-Tail Robustness in Autonomous Driving

    Mar 16, 2026Tong Nie, Yihong Tang, Junlin He +5Long-Tail Autonomous DrivingAdversarial Training

    The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China · Tongji University, Shanghai, China · McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

  18. Learning from Mistakes: Post-Training for Driving VLA with Takeover Data

    Mar 16, 2026Yinfeng Gao, Deqing Liu, Qichao Zhang +7Autonomous DrivingVLMs for Autonomous Driving

    University of Science and Technology Beijing · Xiaomi EV · Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences

  19. Real-Time Driver Safety Scoring Through Inverse Crash Probability Modeling

    Mar 16, 2026Joyjit Roy, Samaresh Kumar Singh, Sushanta Das +1Autonomous Driving

    Independent Researcher · Austin, Texas, USA · Leander, Texas, USA +5

  20. LPV-MPC for Lateral Control in Full-Scale Autonomous Racing

    Mar 14, 2026Hassan Jardali, Ihab S. Mohamed, Durgakant Pushp +1Model Predictive ControlAutonomous Driving

    Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47408 USA

  21. LR-SGS: Robust LiDAR-Reflectance-Guided Salient Gaussian Splatting for Self-Driving Scene Reconstruction

    Mar 13, 2026ZY Chen, F Zhu, H Zhu +43D Gaussian SplattingAutonomous Driving

  22. CarPLAN: Context-Adaptive and Robust Planning with Dynamic Scene Awareness for Autonomous Driving

    Mar 13, 2026Junyong Yun, Jungho Kim, ByungHyun Lee +5Motion PlanningAutonomous Driving Planning

    Department of Artificial Intelligence, Hanyang University, 04763, Republic of Korea. · Interdisciplinary Program in Artificial Intelligence, Seoul National University, 08826, Seoul, Republic of Korea · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University, 08826, Seoul, Republic of Korea. +1

  23. DynVLA: Learning World Dynamics for Action Reasoning in Autonomous Driving

    Mar 11, 2026Shuyao Shang, Bing Zhan, Yunfei Yan +9Autonomous DrivingVision-Language-Action Models

    NLPR, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA) · Yinwang Intelligent Technology Co. Ltd.

  24. FlowAD: Ego-Scene Interactive Modeling for Autonomous Driving

    Mar 11, 2026Mingzhe Guo, Yixiang Yang, Chuanrong Han +4Autonomous DrivingEnd-to-End Autonomous Driving

    AutoLab, School of Artificial Intelligence, Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Baidu Inc.

  25. Recover to Predict: Progressive Retrospective Learning for Variable-Length Trajectory Prediction

    Mar 11, 2026Hao Zhou, Lu Qi, Jason Li +5Trajectory PredictionAutonomous Driving

    Great Bay University · Tsinghua SIGS · Wuhan University +3

  26. A Survey of Reasoning in Autonomous Driving Systems: Open Challenges and Emerging Paradigms

    Mar 11, 2026Kejin Yu, Yuhan Sun, Taiqiang Wu +5Autonomous DrivingVLMs for Autonomous Driving

    1Tsinghua University · East China Normal University · 3The University of Hong Kong

  27. StyleVLA: Driving Style-Aware Vision Language Action Model for Autonomous Driving

    Mar 10, 2026Yuan Gao, Dengyuan Hua, Mattia Piccinini +4Autonomous DrivingVision-Language-Action Models

    Y. Gao, D. Hua, M. Piccinini, F. Schäfer, K. Moller, J. Betz are with the Professorship of Autonomous Vehicle Systems, TUM School of Engineering and Design, Technical University of Munich, 85748 Garching, Germany; Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI) · L. Li is with the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University

  28. High-Slip-Ratio Control for Peak Tire-Road Friction Estimation Using Automated Vehicles

    Mar 10, 2026Zhaohui Liang, Hang Zhou, Heye Huanh +1Vehicle DynamicsAutonomous Driving

    Civil & Environmental Engineering Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Madison, WI

  29. RLPR: Radar-to-LiDAR Place Recognition via Two-Stage Asymmetric Cross-Modal Alignment for Autonomous Driving

    Mar 9, 2026Zhangshuo Qi, Jingyi Xu, Luqi Cheng +2Autonomous DrivingCross-Modal Representation Learning

    Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China. · Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, 200240, China.

  30. UniUncer: Unified Dynamic Static Uncertainty for End to End Driving

    Mar 8, 2026Yu Gao, Jijun Wang, Zongzheng Zhang +7Autonomous DrivingEnd-to-End Autonomous Driving

    Bosch Corporate Research, China. · Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), Tsinghua University, China. · Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA.