Autonomous Racing

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Autonomous racing studies how vehicles can perceive a track and other racers, estimate their own dynamics, and plan and control motion near the limits of grip. Common approaches include minimum-time trajectory optimization and model predictive control, alongside reinforcement learning, learned dynamics models, and sensor fusion for localization and opponent tracking. Multi-agent work adds overtaking and defensive strategies, while benchmarks, simulators, and small-scale platforms help test methods before full-scale deployment. A central challenge is transferring performance from simulation to real cars without sacrificing safety or real-time reliability, especially as surfaces, opponents, and sensor conditions change.

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  1. Anomaly-Informed Confidence Calibration for Vision-Based Safety Prediction

    May 20, 2026Zhenjiang Mao, Jiawen Wu, Gabriel Wagner +2Post-Hoc CalibrationAutonomous Racing

    Trustworthy Engineered Autonomy (TEA) Lab, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA

  2. Trajectory Planning and Control near the Limits: an Open Experimental Benchmark on the RoboRacer Platform

    May 19, 2026Mattia Piccinini, Patrick Zambiasi, Aniello Mungiello +3Autonomous Driving BenchmarksRobot Trajectory Tracking

    Professorship of Autonomous Vehicle Systems, Technical University of Munich, 85748 Garching, Germany; Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI). · Avilus GmbH, Germany. · Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering (DIETI), University of Naples Federico II, Naples 80125, Italy. +1

  3. Transfer Learning for Customized Car Racing Environments

    May 18, 2026Benedict Florance Arockiaraj, Richard Chang, Wesley YeeAutonomous RacingCross-Domain Transfer Learning

    SEAS

  4. DynSSM: A Physics-Aware State-Space Memory Framework for Learning Vehicle Dynamics

    May 8, 2026Musabbir Ahmed Arrafi, Malik Ali, Nicholas M. Stiffler +1Autonomous RacingVehicle Dynamics

    University of Dayton, Dayton, OH 45469 USA

  5. Learning to Race in Minutes: Infoprop Dyna on the Mini Wheelbot

    May 1, 2026Devdutt Subhasish, Henrik Hose, Sebastian TrimpeRobot Skill LearningAutonomous Racing

    Institute for Data Science in Mechanical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, 52062 Aachen

  6. TEACar: An Open-Source Autonomous Driving Platform

    Apr 27, 2026Zhongzheng Zhang, Maxwell Ruyle, Andrew Kappes +5Intelligent Transportation SystemsAutonomous Driving

    Trustworthy Engineered Autonomy (TEA) Lab, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida

  7. Dual Pose-Graph Semantic Localization for Vision-Based Autonomous Drone Racing

    Apr 16, 2026David Perez-Saura, Miguel Fernandez-Cortizas, Alvaro J. Gaona +1Pose Graph OptimizationAutonomous Racing

    Computer Vision & Aerial Robotics Group, Universidad Polit´ecnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain · Automation and Robotics Group (ARG-SnT), University of Luxembourg – SnT, Luxembourg

  8. EagleVision: A Multi-Task Benchmark for Cross-Domain Perception in High-Speed Autonomous Racing

    Apr 13, 2026Zakhar Yagudin, Murad Mebrahtu, Ren Jin +5Autonomous RacingLidar-Based 3D Object Detection

    Skolkovo Institute of Science, Intelligent Space Robotics Laboratory, Center for Engineering Systems and Sciences · Khalifa University, KUCARS-KU Center for Autonomous Robotic Systems, Department of Computer Science · Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing Key Laboratory of UAV Autonomous Control

  9. Physics-Informed Reinforcement Learning of Spatial Density Velocity Potentials for Map-Free Racing

    Apr 10, 2026Shathushan Sivashangaran, Apoorva Khairnar, Sepideh Gohari +2Autonomous RacingRL Control

    Autonomous Robots and Vehicles Laboratory, College of Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284, USA. · Department of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA. · Robotics Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.

  10. RAGE-XY: RADAR-Aided Longitudinal and Lateral Forces Estimation For Autonomous Race Cars

    Apr 9, 2026Davide Malvezzi, Nicola Musiu, Eugenio Mascaro +2Vehicle DynamicsAutonomous Racing

  11. RAGE: A Tightly Coupled Radar-Aided Grip Estimator For Autonomous Race Cars

    Apr 3, 2026Davide Malvezzi, Nicola Musiu, Eugenio Mascaro +2Vehicle DynamicsAutonomous Racing

  12. Dynamic Lookahead Distance via Reinforcement Learning-Based Pure Pursuit for Autonomous Racing

    Mar 30, 2026Mohamed Elgouhary, Amr S. El-WakeelAutonomous RacingRL Control

    Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA.

  13. Autonomous overtaking trajectory optimization using reinforcement learning and opponent pose estimation

    Mar 28, 2026Matej Rene Cihlar, Luka Šiktar, Branimir Ćaran +1Autonomous DrivingAutonomous Racing

    University of Zagreb, Zagreb 10000, Croatia, Faculty of mechanical engineering and naval architecture

  14. 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

  15. Efficient Real-World Autonomous Racing via Attenuated Residual Policy Optimization

    Mar 13, 2026Raphael Trumpp, Denis Hoornaert, Mirco Theile +1Residual Policy LearningAutonomous Racing

    Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

  16. Vision-Augmented On-Track System Identification for Autonomous Racing via Attention-Based Priors and Iterative Neural Correction

    Mar 10, 2026Zhiping Wu, Cheng Hu, Yiqin Wang +2Nonlinear System IdentificationVehicle Dynamics

    State Key Laboratory of Industrial, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China

  17. Robust Spatiotemporal Motion Planning for Multi-Agent Autonomous Racing via Topological Gap Identification and Accelerated MPC

    Mar 10, 2026Mingyi Zhang, Cheng Hu, Yiqin Wang +3Autonomous RacingMulti-Robot Motion Planning

    Department of Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University. · Center for Project-Based Learning, D-ITET, ETH Zurich.

  18. Efficient Trajectory Optimization for Autonomous Racing via Formula-1 Data-Driven Initialization

    Mar 7, 2026Samir Shehadeh, Lukas Kutsch, Nils Dengler +2Trajectory OptimizationAutonomous Racing

    University of Bonn, Germany · Lamarr Institute for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence and the Center for Robotics, Bonn, Germany

  19. Expert Knowledge-driven Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Racing via Trajectory Guidance and Dynamics Constraints

    Mar 6, 2026Bo Leng, Weiqi Zhang, Zhuoren Li +4Constrained RLAutonomous Racing

    College of Automotive and Energy Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, 201804, China · School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 639798, Singapore

  20. (hu)Man vs. Machine: In the Future of Motorsport, can Autonomous Vehicles Compete?

    Mar 2, 2026Armand Amaritei, Amber-Lily Blackadder, Sebastian Donnelly +5Autonomous RacingAutonomous Driving Planning

    Autonomous Driving and Intelligent Transport Group, Oxford Brookes University, UK · School of Engineering, Computing & Mathematics, Oxford Brookes University, UK · Artificial Intelligence, Data Analysis and Systems Institute, Oxford Brookes University, UK

  21. Curriculum Reinforcement Learning for Quadrotor Racing with Random Obstacles

    Feb 27, 2026Fangyu Sun, Fanxing Li, Yu Hu +4Autonomous RacingAerial Robotics

    School of Automation and Perception, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China · Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

  22. Learning-based Multi-agent Race Strategies in Formula 1

    Feb 26, 2026Giona Fieni, Joschua Wüthrich, Marc-Philippe Neumann +1Autonomous RacingMulti-Agent Reinforcement Learning

  23. UNet-Based Keypoint Regression for 3D Cone Localization in Autonomous Racing

    Feb 25, 2026Mariia Baidachna, James Carty, Aidan Ferguson +7Autonomous Racing

    School of Computer Science, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK · Amazon, Edinburgh, UK

  24. Environment-Aware Learning of Smooth GNSS Covariance Dynamics for Autonomous Racing

    Feb 24, 2026Y. Deemo Chen, Arion Zimmermann, Thomas A. Berrueta +1Covariance EstimationRobot State Estimation

    Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA.

  25. Learning to Tune Pure Pursuit in Autonomous Racing: Joint Lookahead and Steering-Gain Control with PPO

    Feb 20, 2026Mohamed Elgouhary, Amr S. El-WakeelAutonomous RacingAdaptive Control

    The authors are with the Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA

  26. Spatially-Aware Adaptive Trajectory Optimization with Controller-Guided Feedback for Autonomous Racing

    Feb 17, 2026Alexander Wachter, Alexander Willert, Marc-Philip Ecker +1Trajectory OptimizationAutonomous Racing

    Automation & Control Institute (ACIN), TU Wien, Vienna, Austria · AIT, Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Vienna, Austria

  27. End2Race: An End-to-End Learning Framework for Multi-Vehicle Autonomous Racing

    Sep 21, 2025Zhijie Qiao, Haowei Li, Zhong Cao +1End-to-End Autonomous DrivingMulti-Agent Control

    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