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We present a priority-aware intelligent lane change advisory system based on multi-agent federated reinforcement learning, namely PALCAS, for autonomous vehicles (AVs). While existing lane-change approaches typically focus on single-agent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Yassine Ibork , Nhat Ha Nguyen , Myounggyu Won , Lokesh Das

Reinforcement learning is a widely used approach to autonomous navigation, showing potential in various tasks and robotic setups. Still, it often struggles to reach distant goals when safety constraints are imposed (e.g., the wheeled robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Brian Angulo , Gregory Gorbov , Aleksandr Panov , Konstantin Yakovlev

To improve efficiency and reduce failures in autonomous vehicles, research has focused on developing robust and safe learning methods that take into account disturbances in the environment. Existing literature in robust reinforcement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Xiaobai Ma , Katherine Driggs-Campbell , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Reinforcement Learning (RL) offers a promising framework for autonomous driving by enabling agents to learn control policies through interaction with environments. However, large and high-dimensional action spaces often used to support…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Elahe Delavari , Feeza Khan Khanzada , Jaerock Kwon

In this paper, an adaptive cooperative guidance strategy for the active protection of a target spacecraft trying to evade an interceptor was developed. The target spacecraft performs evasive maneuvers, launching an active defense vehicle to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-07 Li Zhi , Haizhao Liang , Jinze Wu , Jianying Wang , Yu Zheng

One less addressed issue of deep reinforcement learning is the lack of generalization capability based on new state and new target, for complex tasks, it is necessary to give the correct strategy and evaluate all possible actions for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Mincong Luo , Yin Tong , Jiachi Liu

Connected and Automated Hybrid Electric Vehicles have the potential to reduce fuel consumption and travel time in real-world driving conditions. The eco-driving problem seeks to design optimal speed and power usage profiles based upon…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Zhaoxuan Zhu , Nicola Pivaro , Shobhit Gupta , Abhishek Gupta , Marcello Canova

Self-driving vehicles have their own intelligence to drive on open roads. However, vehicle managers, e.g., government or industrial companies, still need a way to tell these self-driving vehicles what behaviors are encouraged or forbidden.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Jiaxin Liu , Wenhui Zhou , Hong Wang , Zhong Cao , Wenhao Yu , Chengxiang Zhao , Ding Zhao , Diange Yang , Jun Li

We present a practical verification method for safety analysis of the autonomous driving system (ADS). The main idea is to build a surrogate model that quantitatively depicts the behaviour of an ADS in the specified traffic scenario. The…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Renjue Li , Tianhang Qin , Pengfei Yang , Cheng-Chao Huang , Youcheng Sun , Lijun Zhang

Drift vehicle control offers valuable insights to support safe autonomous driving in extreme conditions, which hinges on tracking a particular path while maintaining the vehicle states near the drift equilibrium points (DEP). However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Bei Zhou , Cheng Hu , Jun Zeng , Zhouheng Li , Johannes Betz , Lei Xie , Hongye Su

Stop-and-go waves in traffic flow pose a persistent challenge, compromising safety, efficiency, and environmental sustainability. This paper introduces a novel mitigation strategy discovered through training multi-agent deep reinforcement…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-11-19 Raphael Korbmacher , Daniel Straub , Antoine Tordeux , Claudia Totzeck

This paper proposes an adaptive behavioral decision-making method for autonomous vehicles (AVs) focusing on complex merging scenarios. Leveraging principles from non-cooperative game theory, we develop a vehicle interaction behavior model…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Heye Huang , Jinxin Liu , Guanya Shi , Shiyue Zhao , Boqi Li , Jianqiang Wang

Recent advances in combining deep learning and Reinforcement Learning have shown a promising path for designing new control agents that can learn optimal policies for challenging control tasks. These new methods address the main limitations…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-05-31 Hamid Mirzaei , Tony Givargis

Autonomous vehicle (AV) evaluation has been the subject of increased interest in recent years both in industry and in academia. This paper focuses on the development of a novel framework for generating adversarial driving behavior of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Zhen Liu , Hang Gao , Hao Ma , Shuo Cai , Yunfeng Hu , Ting Qu , Hong Chen , Xun Gong

Autonomous driving systems (ADSs) are capable of sensing the environment and making driving decisions autonomously. These systems are safety-critical, and testing them is one of the important approaches to ensure their safety. However, due…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Chengjie Lu , Tao Yue , Man Zhang , Shaukat Ali

Obstacle avoidance for small unmanned aircraft is vital for the safety of future urban air mobility (UAM) and Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Traffic Management (UTM). There are many techniques for real-time robust drone guidance, but many…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Jueming Hu , Xuxi Yang , Weichang Wang , Peng Wei , Lei Ying , Yongming Liu

Applying reinforcement learning to autonomous driving entails particular challenges, primarily due to dynamically changing traffic flows. To address such challenges, it is necessary to quickly determine response strategies to the changing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Se-Wook Yoo , Chan Kim , Jin-Woo Choi , Seong-Woo Kim , Seung-Woo Seo

Lane changes are complex driving behaviors and frequently involve safety-critical situations. This study aims to develop a lane-change-related evasive behavior model, which can facilitate the development of safety-aware traffic simulations…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Hongyu Guo , Kun Xie , Mehdi Keyvan-Ekbatani

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

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