Energy-Aware Path Following: Comparative Analysis of Reinforcement Learning and NMPC for Electric Vehicles

arXiv:2610.08112 · cs.RO, cs.LG, cs.SY, eess.SY · Submitted 2026-10-06 · Read on arXiv

cs.RO, cs.LG, cs.SY, eess.SY

Submitted: 2026-10-06

Updated: 2026-10-06

Comments: 20 pages, 12 figures, currently submitted for review at the journal (Robotics and Autonomous Systems) https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/robotics-and-autonomous-systems

Code: https://github.com/mohamedkamalsabaa/Regenerative-Energy-in-Learned-Path-Following

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes

Sources

• Deep Deterministic Path Following

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