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With the advent of universal function approximators in the domain of reinforcement learning, the number of practical applications leveraging deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has exploded. Decision-making in autonomous vehicles (AVs) has…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Hanxi Wan , Pei Li , Arpan Kusari

Connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) have the potential to enhance driving safety, for example by enabling safe vehicle following and more efficient traffic scheduling. For such future deployments, safety requirements should be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Jianbo Wang , Galina Sidorenko , Johan Thunberg

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

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) offers a powerful approach to training neural network control policies for stochastic queuing networks (SQN). However, traditional DRL methods rely on offline simulations or static datasets, limiting their…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Jerrod Wigmore , Brooke Shrader , Eytan Modiano

An efficient and reliable multi-agent decision-making system is highly demanded for the safe and efficient operation of connected autonomous vehicles in intelligent transportation systems. Current researches mainly focus on the Deep…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Qi Liu , Zirui Li , Xueyuan Li , Jingda Wu , Shihua Yuan

As a strategy to reduce travel delay and enhance energy efficiency, platooning of connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) at non-signalized intersections has become increasingly popular in academia. However, few studies have attempted to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Duowei Li , Jianping Wu , Feng Zhu , Tianyi Chen , Yiik Diew Wong

This letter presents a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) approach for transmission design to optimize the energy efficiency in vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication links. Considering the dynamic environment of vehicular communications,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-22 Zhengpeng Wang , Yanqun Tang , Yingzhe Mao , Tao Wang , Xiunan Huang

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has been used to learn effective heuristics for solving complex combinatorial optimisation problem via policy networks and have demonstrated promising performance. Existing works have focused on solving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Nasrin Sultana , Jeffrey Chan , A. K. Qin , Tabinda Sarwar

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) is regarded as a potential method for car-following control and has been mostly studied to support a single following vehicle. However, it is more challenging to learn a stable and efficient car-following…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-21 Tong Liu , Lei Lei , Kan Zheng , Kuan Zhang

Integrating human expertise with machine learning is crucial for applications demanding high accuracy and safety, such as autonomous driving. This study introduces Interactive Double Deep Q-network (iDDQN), a Human-in-the-Loop (HITL)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Alkis Sygkounas , Ioannis Athanasiadis , Andreas Persson , Michael Felsberg , Amy Loutfi

Although Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) and Large Language Models (LLMs) each show promise in addressing decision-making challenges in autonomous driving, DRL often suffers from high sample complexity, while LLMs have difficulty ensuring…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Chengkai Xu , Jiaqi Liu , Shiyu Fang , Yiming Cui , Dong Chen , Peng Hang , Jian Sun

Many real-world applications can be formulated as multi-agent cooperation problems, such as network packet routing and coordination of autonomous vehicles. The emergence of deep reinforcement learning (DRL) provides a promising approach for…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Zhixuan Liang , Jiannong Cao , Shan Jiang , Divya Saxena , Huafeng Xu

This paper presents a hierarchical decision-making framework for autonomous navigation in four-wheel independent steering and driving (4WISD) systems. The proposed approach integrates deep reinforcement learning (DRL) for high-level…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Yizhi Wang , Degang Xu , Yongfang Xie , Shuzhong Tan , Xianan Zhou , Peng Chen

Although deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has shown promising results for autonomous navigation in interactive traffic scenarios, existing work typically adopts a fixed behavior policy to control social vehicles in the training…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Kanghoon Lee , Jiachen Li , David Isele , Jinkyoo Park , Kikuo Fujimura , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

With the implementation of reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms, current state-of-art autonomous vehicle technology have the potential to get closer to full automation. However, most of the applications have been limited to game domains…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Wenhui Huang , Francesco Braghin , Zhuo Wang

High-speed cruising scenarios with mixed traffic greatly challenge the road safety of autonomous vehicles (AVs). Unlike existing works that only look at fundamental modules in isolation, this work enhances AV safety in mixed-traffic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-24 Jinhao Liang , Kaidi Yang , Chaopeng Tan , Jinxiang Wang , Guodong Yin

Autonomous driving is a challenging domain that entails multiple aspects: a vehicle should be able to drive to its destination as fast as possible while avoiding collision, obeying traffic rules and ensuring the comfort of passengers. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-28 Changjian Li , Krzysztof Czarnecki

Reinforcement learning (RL) is a powerful data-driven control method that has been largely explored in autonomous driving tasks. However, conventional RL approaches learn control policies through trial-and-error interactions with the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Tianyu Shi , Dong Chen , Kaian Chen , Zhaojian Li

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) provides a promising way for learning navigation in complex autonomous driving scenarios. However, identifying the subtle cues that can indicate drastically different outcomes remains an open problem with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Xiaobai Ma , Jiachen Li , Mykel J. Kochenderfer , David Isele , Kikuo Fujimura

We consider vehicular networking scenarios where existing vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) links can be leveraged for an effective uploading of large-size data to the network. In particular, we consider a group of vehicles where one vehicle can be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-22 Talha Akyildiz , Hessam Mahdavifar