#path planning

Connected & Autonomous Driving September 3, 2026

Behavior Planning Primer: How FSMs, Behavior Trees, and POMDPs Choose What an Automated Vehicle Does Next

Behavior planning turns uncertain perception into stop, follow, yield, merge, and lane-change decisions, then constrains path planning and MPC. This primer connects FSMs, behavior trees, POMDPs, current ADAS, safety, and testing.

Fundamentals · 11 min Connected & Autonomous Driving September 3, 2026

Behavior Planning Primer: How FSMs, Behavior Trees, and POMDPs Choose What an Automated Vehicle Does Next

Behavior planning turns uncertain perception into stop, follow, yield, merge, and lane-change decisions, then constrains path planning and MPC. This primer connects FSMs, behavior trees, POMDPs, current ADAS, safety, and testing.

Fundamentals · 11 min Control Engineering Primer September 3, 2026

Control Engineering Primer: Path Planning — A*, Dijkstra, RRT, RRT*, and PRM

Path planning is not drawing a shortest line. This primer compares grid and continuous-space algorithms while accounting for robot footprint, map uncertainty, computation, SLAM/Nav2 integration, and safety.

Fundamentals · 5 min