Accelerating Time-Optimal Trajectory Planning for Connected and Automated Vehicles with Graph Neural Networks

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Main Authors: Le, Viet-Anh, Malikopoulos, Andreas A.
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author Le, Viet-Anh
Malikopoulos, Andreas A.
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Malikopoulos, Andreas A.
contents In this paper, we present a learning-based framework that accelerates time- and energy-optimal trajectory planning for connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) using graph neural networks (GNNs). We formulate the multi-agent coordination problem encountered in traffic scenarios as a cooperative trajectory planning problem that minimizes travel time, subject to motion primitives derived from energy-optimal solutions. The performance of this framework can be further improved through replanning at each time step, enabling the system to incorporate newly observed information. To achieve real-time execution, we employ a graph isomorphism network with edge features (GINEConv) to learn the solutions of the time-optimal trajectory planning problem from offline-generated data. The trained model produces online predictions that serve as warm-starts for numerical optimization, thereby enabling rapid computation of minimal exit times and the associated feasible trajectories. This learning-to-warm-start approach substantially reduces computation time while preserving the control performance of the time- and energy-optimal trajectory planning framework.
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spellingShingle Accelerating Time-Optimal Trajectory Planning for Connected and Automated Vehicles with Graph Neural Networks
Le, Viet-Anh
Malikopoulos, Andreas A.
Systems and Control
In this paper, we present a learning-based framework that accelerates time- and energy-optimal trajectory planning for connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) using graph neural networks (GNNs). We formulate the multi-agent coordination problem encountered in traffic scenarios as a cooperative trajectory planning problem that minimizes travel time, subject to motion primitives derived from energy-optimal solutions. The performance of this framework can be further improved through replanning at each time step, enabling the system to incorporate newly observed information. To achieve real-time execution, we employ a graph isomorphism network with edge features (GINEConv) to learn the solutions of the time-optimal trajectory planning problem from offline-generated data. The trained model produces online predictions that serve as warm-starts for numerical optimization, thereby enabling rapid computation of minimal exit times and the associated feasible trajectories. This learning-to-warm-start approach substantially reduces computation time while preserving the control performance of the time- and energy-optimal trajectory planning framework.
title Accelerating Time-Optimal Trajectory Planning for Connected and Automated Vehicles with Graph Neural Networks
topic Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.20383