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Out of the many deep reinforcement learning approaches for autonomous driving, only few make use of the options (or skills) framework. That is surprising, as this framework is naturally suited for hierarchical control applications in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Bram De Cooman , Johan Suykens

Tactical decision making and strategic motion planning for autonomous highway driving are challenging due to the complication of predicting other road users' behaviors, diversity of environments, and complexity of the traffic interactions.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Majid Moghadam , Ali Alizadeh , Engin Tekin , Gabriel Hugh Elkaim

This research aims to explore the application of deep learning in autonomous driving computer vision technology and its impact on improving system performance. By using advanced technologies such as convolutional neural networks (CNN),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Jingyu Zhang , Jin Cao , Jinghao Chang , Xinjin Li , Houze Liu , Zhenglin Li

Success in racing requires a unique combination of vehicle setup, understanding of the racetrack, and human expertise. Since building and testing many different vehicle configurations in the real world is prohibitively expensive,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-06 John Subosits , Jenna Lee , Shawn Manuel , Paul Tylkin , Avinash Balachandran

Existing approaches in reinforcement learning train an agent to learn desired optimal behavior in an environment with rule based surrounding agents. In safety critical applications such as autonomous driving it is crucial that the rule…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Arjun Srinivasan , Anubhav Paras , Aniket Bera

Autonomous navigation is challenging for mobile robots, especially in an unknown environment. Commonly, the robot requires multiple sensors to map the environment, locate itself, and make a plan to reach the target. However, reinforcement…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Miguel Quinones-Ramirez , Jorge Rios-Martinez , Victor Uc-Cetina

Autonomous driving at unsignalized intersections is still considered a challenging application for machine learning due to the complications associated with handling complex multi-agent scenarios characterized by a high degree of…

The increasing demand for autonomous systems in complex and dynamic environments has driven significant research into intelligent path planning methodologies. For decades, graph-based search algorithms, linear programming techniques, and…

In the typical autonomous driving stack, planning and control systems represent two of the most crucial components in which data retrieved by sensors and processed by perception algorithms are used to implement a safe and comfortable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Paolo Maramotti , Alessandro Paolo Capasso , Giulio Bacchiani , Alberto Broggi

Currently decision making is one of the biggest challenges in autonomous driving. This paper introduces a method for safely navigating an autonomous vehicle in highway scenarios by combining deep Q-Networks and insight from control theory.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Max Peter Ronecker , Yuan Zhu

Modern self-driving autonomy systems heavily rely on deep learning. As a consequence, their performance is influenced significantly by the quality and richness of the training data. Data collecting platforms can generate many hours of raw…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Abbas Sadat , Sean Segal , Sergio Casas , James Tu , Bin Yang , Raquel Urtasun , Ersin Yumer

Nowadays, autonomous vehicles are gaining traction due to their numerous potential applications in resolving a variety of other real-world challenges. However, developing autonomous vehicles need huge amount of training and testing before…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Jumman Hossain

Deep reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms can learn complex policies to optimize agent operation over time. RL algorithms have shown promising results in solving complicated problems in recent years. However, their application on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Hamed Khorasgani , Haiyan Wang , Chetan Gupta , Susumu Serita

Overtaking on two-lane roads is a great challenge for autonomous vehicles, as oncoming traffic appearing on the opposite lane may require the vehicle to change its decision and abort the overtaking. Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Jinxiong Lu , Gokhan Alcan , Ville Kyrki

Reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms have been around for decades and employed to solve various sequential decision-making problems. These algorithms however have faced great challenges when dealing with high-dimensional environments. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Thanh Thi Nguyen , Ngoc Duy Nguyen , Saeid Nahavandi

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) demonstrates its potential in learning a model-free navigation policy for robot visual navigation. However, the data-demanding algorithm relies on a large number of navigation trajectories in training.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Kaichun Mo , Haoxiang Li , Zhe Lin , Joon-Young Lee

Combining data-driven applications with control systems plays a key role in recent Autonomous Car research. This thesis offers a structured review of the latest literature on Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) within the realm of autonomous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Yiyang Chen , Chao Ji , Yunrui Cai , Tong Yan , Bo Su

The decision and planning system for autonomous driving in urban environments is hard to design. Most current methods manually design the driving policy, which can be expensive to develop and maintain at scale. Instead, with imitation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Jianyu Chen , Bodi Yuan , Masayoshi Tomizuka

Mobile robot navigation in complex and dynamic environments is a challenging but important problem. Reinforcement learning approaches fail to solve these tasks efficiently due to reward sparsities, temporal complexities and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-04-30 Xi Chen , Ali Ghadirzadeh , John Folkesson , Patric Jensfelt

Automated vehicles are deemed to be the key element for the intelligent transportation system in the future. Many studies have been made to improve the Automated vehicles' ability of environment recognition and vehicle control, while the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Yingjun Ye , Xiaohui Zhang , Jian Sun