Trajectory Planning for Autonomous Vehicles: State of the Art
A special issue of Machines (ISSN 2075-1702). This special issue belongs to the section "Vehicle Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2025 | Viewed by 1175
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Trajectory planning is essential and critical in autonomous driving systems, where safety, comfort, and efficiency must be dynamically balanced. Robust and flexible trajectories should be planned based on onboard environment perceptions and traffic regulations. This Special Issue aims to collect state-of-the-art research and ideas about trajectory planning for all levels of autonomous vehicles. In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Trajectory planning for autonomous vehicles;
- Behavior planning;
- Decision making;
- Path planning;
- Speed planning;
- End-to-end model-based trajectory planning;
- Spatial-temporal trajectory planning.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Yiwen Huang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- trajectory planning for autonomous vehicles
- behavior planning
- decision making
- path planning
- speed planning
- end-to-end model-based trajectory planning
- spatial–temporal trajectory planning
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