Autonomous Parking

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Overview

Autonomous parking combines perception and localization with motion planning and vehicle control in tight spaces, often with obstacles, occlusions, and other road users. Classical methods such as Hybrid A*, model predictive control, and optimization provide structured, physically feasible trajectories, while imitation learning and reinforcement learning aim to handle complex maneuvers and interactions. Work is evaluated in simulators such as CARLA and parking datasets, as well as on real vehicles, with measures including success, collision risk, trajectory quality, and transfer to unfamiliar spaces. A central challenge is combining flexible learned behavior with reliable safety guarantees and robust performance beyond the settings used for training.

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  1. Dynamics-Aware Adaptive Corridors with Feasibility-Perturbed Trust-Region SQP for Certified Nonholonomic Motion Planning

    Oct 5, 2026Yang ShiConstrained Motion PlanningTrajectory Generation

    Jiangsu College of Safety Technology, Jiangsu, China

  2. Timed Rule-Based Supervision of an End-to-End Autonomous Parking Policy

    Sep 24, 2026Kejia Gao, Liguo Zhou, Lei Yu +1Autonomous ParkingRuntime Assurance

  3. From Semantic Decisions to Feasible Trajectories: Self-Evolving LLM-Guided Optimal Control for Narrow-Space Parking

    Sep 21, 2026Zhengbao Yao, Yuanfu Luo, Kehan XueConstrained Motion PlanningTrajectory Optimization

    xLean Robotics Co., Ltd.

  4. Learning Reliable Parking Policies via Offline Reinforcement Learning with Quantized Action Representations

    Sep 17, 2026Zewei Yang, Zengqi Peng, Jun MaAutonomous ParkingConservative RL

    Robotics and Autonomous Systems Thrust, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangzhou 511453, China · Cheng Kar-Shun Robotics Institute, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China

  5. DriftParking: Trajectory Modeling via Drifting Field for End-to-End Automated Parking

    Sep 7, 2026Ziyan Wang, Dong Li, Weibo Wang +4Autonomous ParkingTrajectory Generation

    Aptiv China (based in Suzhou and Shanghai)

  6. An Ensemble-Based Self-Taught Learning Approach for Parking Space Classification Under Limited Data

    Sep 3, 2026Lucas de Oliveira Cunha, Joelton Deonei Gotz, Paulo Lisboa de Almeida +1Ensemble LearningAutonomous Parking

    Universidade Federal do Paraná, Department of Informatics, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil · Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Graduate Program in Informatics (PPGIa), Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil

  7. NeuralParker: A Reinforcement Learning Planner for Irregular Parking Environments

    Aug 25, 2026Zihan Wang, Bai Huang, Yang Guan +4Autonomous ParkingMotion Planning

    School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China · School of Statistics and Mathematics, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing 100081, China · School of Vehicle and Mobility, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China +1

  8. Global Exponential Stabilization of the Kinematic Bicycle Model of a Car in Polar Coordinates

    Jul 29, 2026Velimir Todorovski, Kwang Hak Kim, Alessandro Astolfi +1Robotic ControlBackstepping Control

    Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UC San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA, 92093-0411 · Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, 23955, Saudi Arabia

  9. Optimal Reward Shaping: Autonomous Car Parking Case Study

    Jul 26, 2026Emre Özkaya, Nicolas R. GaugerDeep Q-LearningAutonomous Parking

    Chair for Scientific Computing, RPTU University of Kaiserslautern-Landau Paul-Ehrlich-Strasse 34, 67663 Kaiserslautern

  10. VLN-AVP: Zero-Shot Vision-Language Navigation with Hybrid Long-Short-Term Memory for Autonomous Valet Parking

    Jul 20, 2026Yijian Li, Xiangru Mu, Changze Li +7Memory-Augmented VLMsVLN Benchmarks

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China · Yinwang Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd.

  11. Exact, Efficient, and Safe Occlusion-Aware Planning Using AH-Polyhedrons

    Jun 13, 2026Long Kiu Chung, David Isele, Toktam Mohammadnejad +4Reachability AnalysisAutonomous Parking

    Honda Research Institute (HRI), Mountain View, CA. · Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA.

  12. ParkingTransformer: LLM-Enhanced End-to-End Trajectory Planning for Autonomous Parking

    Jun 12, 2026Hauteng Wu, Xu Li, Dong Kong +4End-to-End Autonomous DrivingAutonomous Parking

    School of Instrument Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China · School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, 201804, China · College of Transportation, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266590, China +1

  13. CoPark: Learning Reactive Parking via Self-Play

    Jun 2, 2026Jiarong Wei, Yanxing Chen, Sinuo Song +3Multi-Agent CoordinationSelf-Play RL

    Department of Computer Science, University of Freiburg, Germany · CARIAD SE, Germany · Technical University of Munich, Germany

  14. ParkingWorld: End-to-End Autonomous Parking Reinforcement Learning from Corrective Experience in 3DGS Simulation

    May 24, 2026Zhengcheng Yu, Changze Li, Haoran Liu +1End-to-End Autonomous DrivingAutonomous Parking

    Tsinghua University · Shanghai Jiaotong University

  15. N3P: Accelerated Automated Parking via a Learning-Based Naturalistic Three-Stage Scheme

    May 21, 2026Yifan Xue, Toktam Mohammadnejad, Faizan M Tariq +5Autonomous ParkingRoadmap-Based Motion Planning

    Honda Research Institute (HRI), Mountain View, CA. · University of Pennsylvania, PA.

  16. REAP: Reinforcement-Learning End-to-End Autonomous Parking with Gaussian Splatting Simulator for Real2Sim2Real Transfer

    May 9, 2026Changze Li, Zhe Chen, Shaoyu Chen +7End-to-End Autonomous DrivingAutonomous Parking

    Horizon Robotics Technology Research and Development Co., Ltd.

  17. Parking Assistance for Trailer-Truck Transport Vehicles Using Sensor Fusion and Motion Planning

    May 4, 2026George Alenchery, Thomas Jeske, Tova Quinones +4Nonlinear MPCAutonomous Parking

    Software Engineering Department Florida Gulf Coast University

  18. ParkingScenes: A Structured Dataset for End-to-End Autonomous Parking in Simulation Scenes

    Apr 20, 2026Haonan Chen, Kaiwen Xiao, Bin Tian +1Autonomous Driving DatasetsEnd-to-End Autonomous Driving

    Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Beijing, China +3

  19. High-Density Automated Valet Parking with Relocation-Free Sequential Operations

    Mar 25, 2026Bon Choe, Minhee Kang, Heejin AhnAutonomous ParkingSequential Decision Making

    School of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Republic of Korea

  20. U-Parking: Distributed UWB-Assisted Autonomous Parking System with Robust Localization and Intelligent Planning

    Mar 5, 2026Yiang Wu, Qiong Wu, Pingyi Fan +4Autonomous ParkingRobot Localization

    Jiangnan University · School of Information Engineering, Jiangxi Provincial Key Laboratory of Advanced Signal Processing and Intelligent Communications, Nanchang University · Zhuhai Fudan Innovation Institute +5

  21. Selecting Spots by Explicitly Predicting Intention from Motion History Improves Performance in Autonomous Parking

    Mar 5, 2026Long Kiu Chung, David Isele, Faizan M. Tariq +3Autonomous ParkingAutonomous Driving Planning

    Honda Research Institute (HRI), Mountain View, CA. · Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA.

  22. SunnyParking: Multi-Shot Trajectory Generation and Motion State Awareness for Human-like Parking

    Feb 25, 2026Jishu Miao, Han Chen, Jiankun Zhai +4Autonomous ParkingAutonomous Driving Planning

    Jishu Miao, Tsubasa Hirakawa, Takayoshi Yamashita, Hironobu Fujiyoshi are with Chubu University, Kasugai, Japan. · Han Chen is with Tongji University, Shanghai, China. · Jiankun Zhai, Qi Liu are independent researchers.

  23. ParkDiffusion++: Ego Intention Conditioned Joint Multi-Agent Trajectory Prediction for Automated Parking using Diffusion Models

    Feb 24, 2026Jiarong Wei, Anna Rehr, Christian Feist +1Multi-Agent Trajectory PredictionTrajectory Prediction

    Department of Computer Science, University of Freiburg, Germany. · CARIAD SE, Germany.