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Simon Idoko

3 accepted papers

2025

CrowdSurfer: Sampling Optimization Augmented with Vector-Quantized Variational AutoEncoder for Dense Crowd Navigation

ICRA 2025

Navigation amongst densely packed crowds remains a challenge for mobile robots. The complexity increases further if the environment layout changes, making the prior computed global plan infeasible. In this paper, we show that it is possible to dramatically enhance crowd navigation by just improving

Cited by 1SourcecodeScholar
2024

Learning Sampling Distribution and Safety Filter for Autonomous Driving with VQ-VAE and Differentiable Optimization

IROS 2024poster

Sampling trajectories from a distribution followed by ranking them based on a specified cost function is a common approach in autonomous driving. Typically, the sampling distribution is hand-crafted (e.g a Gaussian, or a grid). Recently, there have been efforts towards learning the sampling distribu…

Cited by 2SourcecodeScholar
2023

End-to-End Learning of Behavioural Inputs for Autonomous Driving in Dense Traffic

IROS 2023poster

Trajectory sampling in the Frenet(road-aligned) frame, is one of the most popular methods for motion planning of autonomous vehicles. It operates by sampling a set of behavioral inputs, such as lane offset and forward speed, before solving a trajectory optimization problem conditioned on the sampled…

Cited by 5SourcecodeScholar