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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

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

Connected automated driving has the potential to significantly improve urban traffic efficiency, e.g., by alleviating issues due to occlusion. Cooperative behavior planning can be employed to jointly optimize the motion of multiple…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Marvin Klimke , Benjamin Völz , Michael Buchholz

We develop reinforcement learning (RL) boundary controllers to mitigate stop-and-go traffic congestion on a freeway segment. The traffic dynamics of the freeway segment are governed by a macroscopic Aw-Rascle-Zhang (ARZ) model, consisting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-18 Huan Yu , Saehong Park , Alexandre Bayen , Scott Moura , Miroslav Krstic

Designing efficient transit route networks is an NP-hard problem with exponentially large solution spaces that traditionally relies on manual planning processes. We present an end-to-end reinforcement learning (RL) framework based on graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Bibek Poudel , Weizi Li

As the demand for autonomous driving increases, it is paramount to ensure safety. Early accident prediction using deep learning methods for driving safety has recently gained much attention. In this task, early accident prediction and a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Injoon Cho , Praveen Kumar Rajendran , Taeyoung Kim , Dongsoo Har

We present in this paper a new algorithm for urban traffic light control with mixed traffic (communicating and non communicating vehicles) and mixed infrastructure (equipped and unequipped junctions). We call equipped junction here a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Cyril Nguyen Van Phu , Nadir Farhi , Habib Haj-Salem , Jean-Patrick Lebacque

Traffic Signal Control (TSC) is a crucial component in urban traffic management, aiming to optimize road network efficiency and reduce congestion. Traditional TSC methods, primarily based on transportation engineering and reinforcement…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Siqi Lai , Zhao Xu , Weijia Zhang , Hao Liu , Hui Xiong

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) require reliable traffic sign recognition and robust lane detection capabilities to ensure safe navigation in complex and dynamic environments. This paper introduces an integrated approach combining advanced deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Chandan Kumar Sah , Ankit Kumar Shaw , Xiaoli Lian , Arsalan Shahid Baig , Tuopu Wen , Kun Jiang , Mengmeng Yang , Diange Yang

Traffic congestion remains a major challenge for urban transportation, leading to significant economic and environmental impacts. Traffic Signal Control (TSC) is one of the key measures to mitigate congestion, and recent studies have…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Hsiao-Chuan Chang , Sheng-You Huang , Yen-Chi Chen , I-Chen Wu

This study introduces a novel approach to autonomous motion planning, informing an analytical algorithm with a reinforcement learning (RL) agent within a Frenet coordinate system. The combination directly addresses the challenges of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Rainer Trauth , Alexander Hobmeier , Johannes Betz

Reinforcement Learning (RL) is currently one of the most commonly used techniques for traffic signal control (TSC), which can adaptively adjusted traffic signal phase and duration according to real-time traffic data. However, a fully…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Yuli. Zhang , Shangbo. Wang , Ruiyuan. Jiang

Emergency vehicles (EMVs) play a crucial role in responding to time-critical events such as medical emergencies and fire outbreaks in an urban area. The less time EMVs spend traveling through the traffic, the more likely it would help save…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Haoran Su , Yaofeng Desmond Zhong , Biswadip Dey , Amit Chakraborty

Urban congestion remains a critical challenge, with traffic signal control (TSC) emerging as a potent solution. TSC is often modeled as a Markov Decision Process problem and then solved using reinforcement learning (RL), which has proven…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Aoyu Pang , Maonan Wang , Man-On Pun , Chung Shue Chen , Xi Xiong

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) have attracted the attention of researchers and the general public alike as a means to alleviate traffic congestion. Recently, the maturity of wireless technology has enabled a cost-efficient way to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Rusheng Zhang , Akihiro Ishikawa , Wenli Wang , Benjamin Striner , Ozan Tonguz

There has recently been significant interest in training reinforcement learning (RL) agents in vision-based environments. This poses many challenges, such as high dimensionality and the potential for observational overfitting through…

Detailed routing is one of the most critical steps in analog circuit design. Complete routing has become increasingly more challenging in advanced node analog circuits, making advances in efficient automatic routers ever more necessary. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Haiguang Liao , Qingyi Dong , Weiyi Qi , Elias Fallon , Levent Burak Kara

Traffic congestion has significant economic, environmental, and social ramifications. Intersection traffic flow dynamics are influenced by numerous factors. While microscopic traffic simulators are valuable tools, they are computationally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Nooshin Yousefzadeh , Rahul Sengupta , Yashaswi Karnati , Anand Rangarajan , Sanjay Ranka

Reinforcement learning (RL) emerges as a promising data-driven approach for adaptive traffic signal control (ATSC) in complex urban traffic networks, with deep neural networks substantially augmenting its learning capabilities. However,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Yuli Zhang , Shangbo Wang , Dongyao Jia , Pengfei Fan , Ruiyuan Jiang , Hankang Gu , Andy H. F. Chow

The improvement of traffic efficiency at urban intersections receives strong research interest in the field of automated intersection management. So far, mostly non-learning algorithms like reservation or optimization-based ones were…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Marvin Klimke , Jasper Gerigk , Benjamin Völz , Michael Buchholz