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Autonomous driving has the potential to revolutionize mobility and is hence an active area of research. In practice, the behavior of autonomous vehicles must be acceptable, i.e., efficient, safe, and interpretable. While vanilla…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Lukas M. Schmidt , Sebastian Rietsch , Axel Plinge , Bjoern M. Eskofier , Christopher Mutschler

This paper investigates how a Bayesian reinforcement learning method can be used to create a tactical decision-making agent for autonomous driving in an intersection scenario, where the agent can estimate the confidence of its recommended…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Carl-Johan Hoel , Tommy Tram , Jonas Sjöberg

With the development of state-of-art deep reinforcement learning, we can efficiently tackle continuous control problems. But the deep reinforcement learning method for continuous control is based on historical data, which would make…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-12-02 Xi Xiong , Jianqiang Wang , Fang Zhang , Keqiang Li

Reinforcement learning (RL) in autonomous driving employs a trial-and-error mechanism, enhancing robustness in unpredictable environments. However, crafting effective reward functions remains challenging, as conventional approaches rely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Yongming Chen , Miner Chen , Liewen Liao , Mingyang Jiang , Xiang Zuo , Hengrui Zhang , Yuchen Xi , Songan Zhang

Developing an autonomous vehicle control strategy for signalised intersections (SI) is one of the challenging tasks due to its inherently complex decision-making process. This study proposes a Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) based…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Pankaj Kumar , Aditya Mishra , Pranamesh Chakraborty , Subrahmanya Swamy Peruru

Despite recent advances in reinforcement learning (RL), its application in safety critical domains like autonomous vehicles is still challenging. Although punishing RL agents for risky situations can help to learn safe policies, it may also…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Danial Kamran , Tizian Engelgeh , Marvin Busch , Johannes Fischer , Christoph Stiller

In this paper, we propose a decision making algorithm intended for automated vehicles that negotiate with other possibly non-automated vehicles in intersections. The decision algorithm is separated into two parts: a high-level decision…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Tommy Tram , Ivo Batkovic , Mohammad Ali , Jonas Sjöberg

Autonomous lane changing is a critical feature for advanced autonomous driving systems, that involves several challenges such as uncertainty in other driver's behaviors and the trade-off between safety and agility. In this work, we develop…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Ali Alizadeh , Majid Moghadam , Yunus Bicer , Nazim Kemal Ure , Ugur Yavas , Can Kurtulus

Increasing the response time of emergency vehicles(EVs) could lead to an immeasurable loss of property and life. On this account, tactical decision making for EVs' microscopic control remains an indispensable issue to be improved. In this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Haoyi Niu , Jianming Hu , Zheyu Cui , Yi Zhang

Considering its advantages in dealing with high-dimensional visual input and learning control policies in discrete domain, Deep Q Network (DQN) could be an alternative method of traditional auto-focus means in the future. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Xiaofan Yu , Runze Yu , Jingsong Yang , Xiaohui Duan

Existing Advanced Driver Assistance Systems primarily focus on the vehicle directly ahead, often overlooking potential risks from following vehicles. This oversight can lead to ineffective handling of high risk situations, such as high…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Dianwei Chen , Yaobang Gong , Xianfeng Yang

Navigating urban environments represents a complex task for automated vehicles. They must reach their goal safely and efficiently while considering a multitude of traffic participants. We propose a modular decision making algorithm to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Maxime Bouton , Alireza Nakhaei , Kikuo Fujimura , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Lane-change maneuvers are commonly executed by drivers to follow a certain routing plan, overtake a slower vehicle, adapt to a merging lane ahead, etc. However, improper lane change behaviors can be a major cause of traffic flow disruptions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Fei Ye , Xuxin Cheng , Pin Wang , Ching-Yao Chan , Jiucai Zhang

Finding feasible, collision-free paths for multiagent systems can be challenging, particularly in non-communicating scenarios where each agent's intent (e.g. goal) is unobservable to the others. In particular, finding time efficient paths…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-09-29 Yu Fan Chen , Miao Liu , Michael Everett , Jonathan P. How

For highly automated driving above SAE level~3, behavior generation algorithms must reliably consider the inherent uncertainties of the traffic environment, e.g. arising from the variety of human driving styles. Such uncertainties can…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Julian Bernhard , Stefan Pollok , Alois Knoll

We apply Deep Q-network (DQN) with the consideration of safety during the task for deciding whether to conduct the maneuver. Furthermore, we design two similar Deep Q learning frameworks with quadratic approximator for deciding how to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Tianyu Shi , Pin Wang , Xuxin Cheng , Ching-Yao Chan , Ding Huang

Connected Autonomous Vehicles will make autonomous intersection management a reality replacing traditional traffic signal control. Autonomous intersection management requires time and speed adjustment of vehicles arriving at an intersection…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Udesh Gunarathna , Shanika Karunasekara , Renata Borovica-Gajic , Egemen Tanin

High-level driving behavior decision-making is an open-challenging problem for connected vehicle technology, especially in heterogeneous traffic scenarios. In this paper, a deep reinforcement learning based high-level driving behavior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Zhengwei Bai , Baigen Cai , Wei Shangguan , Linguo Chai

Deep reinforcement learning is a technique for solving problems in a variety of environments, ranging from Atari video games to stock trading. This method leverages deep neural network models to make decisions based on observations of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Anthony Dowling

Autonomous driving promises to transform road transport. Multi-vehicle and multi-lane scenarios, however, present unique challenges due to constrained navigation and unpredictable vehicle interactions. Learning-based methods---such as deep…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Rupert Mitchell , Jenny Fletcher , Jacopo Panerati , Amanda Prorok