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3 Citations
4,209 Views
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MTGNet: Multi-Agent End-to-End Motion Trajectory Prediction with Multimodal Panoramic Dynamic Graph

  • Yinfei Dai,
  • Yuantong Zhang,
  • Xiuzhen Zhou,
  • Qi Wang,
  • Xiao Song and
  • Shaoqiang Wang

8 May 2025

With the rapid development of autonomous driving technology, multi-agent trajectory prediction has become the core foundation of autonomous driving algorithms. Efficiently and accurately predicting the future trajectories of multiple agents is key to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Pushing the Boundaries of Autonomous Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,187 Views
22 Pages

9 February 2026

Multi-agent trajectory prediction is essential for autonomous driving systems, as its performance heavily depends on the quality of feature representations. This paper proposes PFR-HiVT, a lightweight and effective approach for multi-agent trajectory...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,260 Views
26 Pages

28 November 2025

Accurate and efficient multi-agent trajectory prediction remains a core challenge for autonomous driving, particularly in modeling complex interactions while maintaining physical plausibility and computational efficiency. Many existing methods- espec...

(This article belongs to the Section Innovative Urban Mobility)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,125 Views
24 Pages

Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Risk-Aware Graph Encoder with Continuous Parameterized Decoder for Autonomous Driving Trajectory Prediction

  • Shaoyu Sun,
  • Chunyang Wang,
  • Bo Xiao,
  • Xuelian Liu,
  • Chunhao Shi,
  • Rongliang Sun and
  • Ruijie Han

30 December 2024

Trajectory prediction is a critical component of autonomous driving, intelligent transportation systems, and human–robot interactions, particularly in complex environments like intersections, where diverse road constraints and multi-agent inter...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,273 Views
13 Pages

23 November 2024

Accurately predicting the long-term trajectories of agents in complex traffic environments is crucial for the safety and effectiveness of autonomous driving systems. This paper introduces DBN-MACTraj, a probabilistic model that takes historical traje...

(This article belongs to the Section E2: Control Theory and Mechanics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,812 Views
17 Pages

Goal-Guided Graph Attention Network with Interactive State Refinement for Multi-Agent Trajectory Prediction

  • Jianghang Wu,
  • Senyao Qiao,
  • Haocheng Li,
  • Boyu Sun,
  • Fei Gao,
  • Hongyu Hu and
  • Rui Zhao

23 March 2024

The accurate prediction of the future trajectories of traffic participants is crucial for enhancing the safety and decision-making capabilities of autonomous vehicles. Modeling social interactions among agents and revealing the inherent relationships...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Driving for Autonomous Vehicles)
  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
12,005 Views
34 Pages

6 September 2025

Trajectory prediction is a critical component of autonomous driving decision-making systems, directly impacting driving safety and traffic efficiency. Despite advancements, existing reviews exhibit limitations in timeliness, classification frameworks...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Journeys in Vehicle System Dynamics and Control)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,319 Views
20 Pages

16 November 2024

The accurate prediction of vehicle behavior is crucial for autonomous driving systems, impacting their safety and efficiency in complex urban environments. To address the challenge of multi-agent trajectory prediction, we propose a novel model integr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Driving for Autonomous Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
119 Views
34 Pages

11 October 2026

In this paper, a delay-informed multi-agent twin delayed deep deterministic policy gradient (DI-MATD3) approach is proposed for multi-UAV formation trajectory planning subject to communication delays. Specifically, a timestamped per-link communicatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,892 Views
25 Pages

19 April 2023

Trajectory prediction in urban scenarios is critical for high-level automated driving systems. However, this task is associated with many challenges. On the one hand, a scene typically includes different traffic participants, such as vehicles, buses,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Artificial Intelligence: Models, Optimization, and Machine Learning, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,182 Views
27 Pages

19 February 2025

The continuous change in formation configurations offers significant potential for formation flight. However, existing methods neglect the potential of autonomous navigation and learning ability based on environmental conditions, which would limit sc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) System)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,617 Views
14 Pages

Deep Learning-Based Multimodal Trajectory Prediction with Traffic Light

  • Seoyoung Lee,
  • Hyogyeong Park,
  • Yeonhwi You,
  • Sungjung Yong and
  • Il-Young Moon

15 November 2023

Trajectory prediction is essential for the safe driving of autonomous vehicles. With the advancement of advanced sensors and deep learning technologies, attempts have been made to reflect complex interactions. In this study, we propose a deep learnin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Future Information & Communication Engineering 2023)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,596 Views
17 Pages

Occlusion-Aware Interactive End-to-End Autonomous Driving for Right-of-Way Conflicts

  • Jialun Yin,
  • Kun Zhao,
  • Xiaohan Ma,
  • Siping Yan,
  • Haoran Li,
  • Junru Yang and
  • Yin Chen

20 October 2025

End-to-end autonomous driving has demonstrated remarkable potential due to its strong scene-understanding capabilities. However, its performance degrades significantly in the presence of occlusions and complex multi-agent interactions, posing serious...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Control and Path Planning for Autonomous Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,788 Views
17 Pages

This paper studies the plan recognition problem of multi-agent systems with temporal logic tasks. The high-level temporal tasks are represented as linear temporal logic (LTL). We present a probabilistic plan recognition algorithm to predict the futur...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
904 Views
25 Pages

Atten-LTC-Enhanced MoE Model for Agent Trajectory Prediction in Autonomous Driving

  • Shangwu Jiang,
  • Ruochen Wang,
  • Renkai Ding,
  • Qing Ye and
  • Wei Liu

11 January 2026

The development of sensor technology and deep learning has significantly improved the reliability and practicality of automatic driving technology. In an autonomous driving system, agent trajectory prediction is a complex challenge, which includes th...

(This article belongs to the Section Vehicular Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,744 Views
19 Pages

22 November 2023

Accurate and reliable trajectory prediction is crucial for autonomous vehicles to achieve safe and efficient operation. Vehicles perceive the historical trajectories of moving objects and make predictions of behavioral intentions for a future period...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Autonomous Driving and Intelligent Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
120 Views
24 Pages

Event-Triggered Collision-Avoidance Flocking Control for Multi-Agent Systems with Collision Prediction

  • Yi Liu,
  • Jiakun Wang,
  • Guanhua Jia,
  • Xiao Shao,
  • Qian Wang,
  • Yuanlin Chen and
  • Yanmo Wang

9 October 2026

Flocking control for multi-agent systems exhibits promising application prospects in numerous areas including cooperative target search, environmental monitoring, disaster rescue, and intelligent transportation. To solve the problem of collision-avoi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Digital Signal Processing for Engineering Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,180 Views
14 Pages

Knowledge-Enhanced Deep Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Agent Game

  • Weiping Zeng,
  • Xuefeng Yan,
  • Fei Mo,
  • Zheng Zhang,
  • Shunfeng Li,
  • Peng Wang and
  • Chaoyu Wang

In modern naval confrontation systems, adversarial underwater unmanned vehicles (UUVs) pose significant challenges, which are deployed on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) due to their inherent mobility and positional uncertainty. Effective neutralizat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Control Strategies and Applications of Multi-Agent Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,714 Views
18 Pages

1 December 2022

In this study, a hierarchical chassis control strategy is designed to enhance vehicle economy and safety for four-wheel independent-drive electric vehicles (FWID-EVs). In the upper-level, a vehicle dynamics model based on multiple agents is proposed,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,962 Views
22 Pages

14 September 2025

The efficient coordination of multi-Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) systems in the increasingly complex domain of aerial tasks is hampered by significant challenges, including partial observability, low sample efficiency, and difficulties in inter-agen...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in UAV Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,254 Views
28 Pages

6 April 2026

Autonomous cleaning robots operating in semi-structured dynamic environments must execute task-oriented motions while safely interacting with surrounding agents. These agents include pedestrians, vehicles, and other robots. In such environments (e.g....

(This article belongs to the Section Sensors and Robotics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,441 Views
26 Pages

17 October 2022

This paper considers trajectory a modeling problem for a multi-agent system by using the Gaussian processes. The Gaussian process, as the typical data-driven method, is well suited to characterize the model uncertainties and perturbations in a comple...

(This article belongs to the Collection Signal Processing, Control, and Estimation for Intelligent Sensor Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,382 Views
23 Pages

5 December 2025

The heterogeneity of human driving styles in mixed-traffic environments manifests as divergent decision-making behaviors in complex scenarios like highway merging. By accurately recognizing these driving styles and predicting corresponding trajectori...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Transportation Systems for Sustainable Transportation Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,090 Views
19 Pages

17 April 2023

Despite rapid advances in vehicle intelligence and connectivity, there is still a significant period in mixed traffic where connected, automated vehicles and human-driven vehicles coexist. The behavioral uncertainty of human-driven vehicles makes dec...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Autonomous Vehicles: Technology and Application)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,735 Views
27 Pages

28 October 2025

Coordinating robotic teams across multiple concurrent search tasks is a critical challenge in search and rescue operations. This work presents a new multi-agent framework designed to manage and optimize search efforts when several missing-person repo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multi-Robot Systems for Environmental Monitoring and Intervention)
  • Article
  • Open Access
334 Views
23 Pages

25 August 2026

Predicting target intent in complex, dynamic multi-agent environments remains a formidable challenge due to incomplete perception and the highly dynamic nature of multi-target interactions. Conventional approaches—such as D-S evidence theory, e...

(This article belongs to the Collection Advances in Deep-Learning-Based Sensing, Imaging, and Video Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
530 Views
24 Pages

Multi-agent trajectory prediction serves as a critical component in autonomous driving systems, bridging environment perception, behavior understanding, and motion planning. Its outputs not only affect candidate trajectory evaluation and interactive...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Road Safety, Aberrant Driver Behaviour and Sustainable Transportation Planning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,669 Views
28 Pages

27 February 2025

Traditional multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) algorithms typically implement global parameter sharing across various types of heterogeneous agents without meticulously differentiating between different action semantics. This approach results...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,078 Views
40 Pages

4 April 2026

Cooperative multi-UAV pursuit–evasion under occlusions and sensor noise is challenged by intermittent observability of the evader, varying observation-window lengths, and non-stationary evader tactics, all of which destabilize prediction and un...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensors and Robotics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,161 Views
19 Pages

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are expected to operate safely and efficiently in complex urban environments characterized by dynamic and uncertain elements such as pedestrians, cyclists and adverse weather. Although current neural network-based decision-m...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Empowered Assisted and Autonomous Driving)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,413 Views
32 Pages

25 August 2025

This article presents an interaction-aware motion planning framework that integrates a graph neural network (GNN) based multi-modal trajectory predictor with a model predictive control (MPC) based planner. Unlike past studies that predict a single fu...

(This article belongs to the Section Automation and Control Systems)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
500 Views
36 Pages

26 June 2026

Grid-based multi-agent path finding (MAPF) solvers scale to large teams, but their discrete schedules may not provide high-quality continuous finite-radius motions near the square-grid corner-passing threshold. We study endpoint-time-preserving geome...

(This article belongs to the Section E1: Mathematics and Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,129 Views
38 Pages

Cooperative Rapid Search for Evasive Targets Using Multiple UAVs Based on Graph Theory

  • Wenying Dou,
  • Peng Yang,
  • Zhiwei Zhang,
  • Guangpeng Hu and
  • Sirun Xu

11 March 2026

Rapid search for evasive targets using multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) presents significant challenges, as it requires real-time target-motion prediction, multi-agent coordination, and adherence to kinematic constraints. Existing cooperative...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence in Drones (AID))
  • Article
  • Open Access
651 Views
48 Pages

Large Language Model-Driven Multi-Agent Simulation of Online Firestorms

  • Chichen Lin,
  • Yizhen Cao,
  • Yijie Jin,
  • Yongbin Wang,
  • Weijian Fan,
  • Zhanzhan Zhao,
  • Xiao Han,
  • Qi Wang and
  • Kangbo Hu

10 June 2026

Large Language Model (LLM)-driven social simulation offers a controllable approach for analyzing crisis responses, but existing work on online crises often emphasizes either user engagement prediction or opinion and eWOM evolution. This separation is...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancements in Large Language Models Applied in Multidisciplinary Research Contexts)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,483 Views
20 Pages

28 February 2026

In recent years, multi-UAV systems have demonstrated broad applications in both security and civilian domains, where cooperative encirclement has emerged as a key research focus. However, existing work predominantly addresses single-target scenarios...

(This article belongs to the Collection Editorial Board Members’ Collection Series: Drone Design)
  • Article
  • Open Access
233 Views
56 Pages

11 September 2026

The widespread adoption of autonomous vehicle technologies requires accurate predictions of coordinated multi-agent motion. While predicting such motion under arbitrary control mechanisms is generally intractable, this paper focuses on certain classe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Driven Computational Methods: Theories, Algorithms and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
457 Views
19 Pages

To address the issues of slow response to preceding vehicles and poor string stability in distributed platoon control of connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) under mixed traffic flow, this paper proposes a sliding mode control method based on LST...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Trajectory Tracking of Autonomous Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,503 Views
26 Pages

31 March 2025

This study explores an innovative approach to integrating modern technology with traditional culture by replacing human performers with clusters of intelligent unmanned vehicles in the Chinese Lunar New Year bench dragon dance. The primary technical...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,340 Views
15 Pages

Predicting the future trajectories of multiple agents is essential for various applications in real life, such as surveillance systems, autonomous driving, and social robots. The trajectory prediction task is influenced by many factors, including ind...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
837 Views
32 Pages

24 January 2026

Traffic state estimation (TSE) is a core task in intelligent transportation systems (ITSs) that seeks to infer key operational parameters—such as speed, flow, and density—from limited observational data. Existing methods often face challe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research and Estimation of Traffic Flow Characteristics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
187 Views
24 Pages

A Predictive Coordinated Ramp Metering Method with Dynamic Spatial–Temporal Graph Convolution

  • Qinghai Lin,
  • Guilong Li,
  • Mengmeng Zhang,
  • Jianchang Huang,
  • Chunting Nie and
  • Zhaocheng He

1 October 2026

Coordinated ramp metering (CRM) is an effective strategy for mitigating congestion on urban expressways. It utilizes traffic flow measurements from the expressway network to regulate multi-ramp signals for optimal system performance. Many CRM approac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
714 Views
18 Pages

A ROS-Based Modular End-to-End Architecture: Building and Validating a Safe and Reliable Autonomous Driving Stack

  • Fabio Sánchez-García,
  • Rodrigo Gutiérrez-Moreno,
  • Miguel Antunes-García,
  • Santiago Montiel-Marín,
  • Franck Fierro,
  • Elena López-Guillén,
  • Rafael Barea and
  • Luis M. Bergasa

4 July 2026

The implementation of safe and reliable Autonomous Driving Stacks in complex urban environments remains a formidable engineering challenge. While classical modular pipelines provide necessary component-level interpretability, they are inherently rigi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensors and Sensing Technologies for Traffic, Driving and Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
359 Views
23 Pages

Agentic artificial intelligence requires safeguards that remain effective across trajectories rather than only at individual decisions. This study introduces MARIS-TRA, a hierarchical temporal runtime assurance extension of Controlled Agentic AI Syst...

(This article belongs to the Section Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,167 Views
16 Pages

2 October 2022

Forecasting the trajectory of pedestrians in shared urban traffic environments from non-invasive sensor modalities is still considered one of the challenging problems facing the development of autonomous vehicles (AVs). In the literature, this proble...

(This article belongs to the Collection Computer Vision Based Smart Sensing)
  • Review
  • Open Access
443 Views
33 Pages

10 September 2026

Reinforcement learning (RL) is increasingly used for real-time control of complex dynamical systems, but its practical performance must be evaluated under hardware constraints that are often simplified in simulation. This paper presents a comprehensi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Reinforcement Learning: Sample Efficiency, Generalisation, and AI Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,777 Views
31 Pages

Artificial intelligence systems deployed in safety-critical and regulated environments require not only predictive performance, but also strict adherence to operational constraints, auditability, and reproducibility. However, in most contemporary arc...

(This article belongs to the Section Safety, Security, Privacy, and Cyber Resilience)
  • Article
  • Open Access
840 Views
24 Pages

Pedestrian trajectory prediction remains a challenging task, particularly in long-tail scenarios where goal distributions are sparse and inter-agent behaviors are uncertain. In this work, we propose to disentangle the trajectory prediction task into...

(This article belongs to the Section AI-Driven Innovations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
322 Views
48 Pages

29 September 2026

The development of complex equipment faces prominent challenges, including unequal status among participating agents, multi-objective full confrontation, strong super-conflict among multi-indicators, dynamic risk evolution, delayed on-site perception...

(This article belongs to the Section Manufacturing Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,400 Views
21 Pages

23 November 2025

Pedestrian trajectory prediction from a vehicle-mounted perspective is essential for autonomous driving in complex urban environments yet remains challenging due to ego-motion jitter, frequent occlusions, and scene variability. Existing approaches, l...

(This article belongs to the Section Vehicular Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,061 Views
22 Pages

20 July 2025

Trajectory prediction under multimodal information is critical for autonomous driving, necessitating the integration of dynamic vehicle states and static high-definition (HD) maps to model complex agent–scene interactions effectively. However,...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)

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