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Dongkun Zhang

10 accepted papers

2026

$\pi$-BA: Probabilistic Neural Bundle Adjustment With Iterative Cycle Optimization for Driving Scene Reconstruction

RA-L 2026

Urban scene reconstruction under noisy camera poses remains a critical challenge for autonomous driving. While recent neural dense Bundle Adjustment (BA) methods have shown promising results in specific settings, their performance often degrades in real-world urban scenarios due to noisy corresponde

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

CarPlanner: Consistent Auto-regressive Trajectory Planning for Large-Scale Reinforcement Learning in Autonomous Driving

CVPR 2025poster

Trajectory planning is vital for autonomous driving, ensuring safe and efficient navigation in complex environments. While recent learning-based methods, particularly reinforcement learning (RL), have shown promise in specific scenarios, RL planners struggle with training inefficiencies and managing…

2024

Efficient Global Trajectory Planning for Multi-robot System with Affinely Deformable Formation

IROS 2024

Global trajectory planning is crucial for long-range formation navigation tasks of multi-robot systems in efficiency improvement and energy saving, whose main challenges are the joint space constraints of the whole team and the long-range deployment. To overcome the above difficulties, we reformulat

Cited by 1SourceScholar
2024

Enhancing Closed-Loop Performance in Learning-Based Vehicle Motion Planning by Integrating Rule-Based Insights

RA-L 2024

This letter introduces an innovative vehicle motion planning method that leverages the integration of rule-based insights to significantly improve closed-loop performance within a learning-based framework. We first employ rule-based methods to heuristically search and generate a diverse set of traje

Cited by 2SourceScholar
2024

PEP: Policy-Embedded Trajectory Planning for Autonomous Driving

RA-L 2024

Autonomous driving demands proficient trajectory planning to ensure safety and comfort. This letter introduces Policy-Embedded Planner (PEP), a novel framework that enhances closed-loop performance of imitation learning (IL) based planners by embedding a neural policy for sequential ego pose generat

Cited by 8SourceScholar
2023

A Two-Stage Based Social Preference Recognition in Multi-Agent Autonomous Driving System

IROS 2023poster

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) has become a promising solution for constructing a multi-agent autonomous driving system (MADS) in complex and dense scenarios. But most methods consider agents acting selfishly, which leads to conflict behaviors. Some existing works incorporate the concept…

Cited by 2SourceScholar
2022

Domain Generalization for Vision-based Driving Trajectory Generation

ICRA 2022poster

One of the challenges in vision-based driving trajectory generation is dealing with out-of-distribution scenarios. In this paper, we propose a domain generalization method for vision-based driving trajectory generation for autonomous vehicles in urban environments, which can be seen as a solution to…

Cited by 5SourceScholar
2022

Learning Observation-Based Certifiable Safe Policy for Decentralized Multi-Robot Navigation

ICRA 2022poster

Safety is of great importance in multi-robot navigation problems. In this paper, we propose a control barrier function (CBF) based optimizer that ensures robot safety with both high probability and flexibility, using only sensor measurement. The optimizer takes action commands from the policy networ…

Cited by 12SourcecodeScholar
2021

Imitation Learning of Hierarchical Driving Model: From Continuous Intention to Continuous Trajectory

RA-L 2021

One of the challenges to reduce the gap between the machine and the human level driving is how to endow the system with the learning capacity to deal with the coupled complexity of environments, intentions, and dynamics. In this letter, we propose a hierarchical driving model with explicit models of

Cited by 19SourcecodeScholar
2020

Learning hierarchical behavior and motion planning for autonomous driving

IROS 2020poster

Learning-based driving solution, a new branch for autonomous driving, is expected to simplify the modeling of driving by learning the underlying mechanisms from data. To improve the tactical decision-making for learning-based driving solution, we introduce hierarchical behavior and motion planning (…

Cited by 48SourceScholar