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Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) has shown promise for large-scale network control, yet existing methods face two major limitations. First, they typically rely on assumptions leading to decay properties of local agent interactions,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Vidur Sinha , Muhammed Ustaomeroglu , Guannan Qu

Autonomous vehicle path planning has reached a stage where safety and regulatory compliance are crucial. This paper presents an approach that integrates a motion planner with a deep reinforcement learning model to predict potential traffic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Yanliang Huang , Sebastian Mair , Zhuoqi Zeng , Matthias Althoff

Recent advances in combining deep neural network architectures with reinforcement learning techniques have shown promising potential results in solving complex control problems with high dimensional state and action spaces. Inspired by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-30 Seyed Sajad Mousavi , Michael Schukat , Enda Howley

Efficient traffic signal control (TSC) has been one of the most useful ways for reducing urban road congestion. Key to the challenge of TSC includes 1) the essential of real-time signal decision, 2) the complexity in traffic dynamics, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Wanyuan Wang , Tianchi Qiao , Jinming Ma , Jiahui Jin , Zhibin Li , Weiwei Wu , Yichuan Jian

An approach to resilient planning and control of autonomous vehicles in multi-vehicle traffic scenarios is proposed. The proposed method is based on model predictive control (MPC), where alternative predictions of the surrounding traffic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-21 Victor Fors , Björn Olofsson , Erik Frisk

Learning communication strategies in cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) has recently attracted intensive attention. Early studies typically assumed a fully-connected communication topology among agents, which induces high…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Xuefeng Wang , Xinran Li , Jiawei Shao , Jun Zhang

Recently, autonomous driving has made substantial progress in addressing the most common traffic scenarios like intersection navigation and lane changing. However, most of these successes have been limited to scenarios with well-defined…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Christoph Killing , Adam Villaflor , John M. Dolan

In this paper, we explore a multi-agent reinforcement learning approach to address the design problem of communication and control strategies for multi-agent cooperative transport. Typical end-to-end deep neural network policies may be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Kazuki Shibata , Tomohiko Jimbo , Takamitsu Matsubara

Multi-agent deep reinforcement learning makes optimal decisions dependent on system states observed by agents, but any uncertainty on the observations may mislead agents to take wrong actions. The Mean-Field Actor-Critic reinforcement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Ziyuan Zhou , Guanjun Liu

This study presents an Actor-Critic reinforcement learning Compensated Model Predictive Controller (AC2MPC) designed for high-speed, off-road autonomous driving on deformable terrains. Addressing the difficulty of modeling unknown…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Prakhar Gupta , Jonathon M. Smereka , Yunyi Jia

In multi-agent based traffic simulation, agents are always supposed to move following existing instructions, and mechanically and unnaturally imitate human behavior. The human drivers perform acceleration or deceleration irregularly all the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Junjie Zhong , Hiromitsu Hattori

This paper proposes a novel approach by integrating sensor fusion with deep reinforcement learning, specifically the Soft Actor-Critic (SAC) algorithm, to develop an optimal control policy for self-driving cars. Our system employs a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-29 Amin Jalal Aghdasian , Amirhossein Heydarian Ardakani , Kianoush Aqabakee , Farzaneh Abdollahi

Reinforcement learning has gathered much attention in recent years due to its rapid development and rich applications, especially on control systems and robotics. When tackling real-world applications with reinforcement learning method, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Andy Wu , Chun-Cheng Lin , Rung-Tzuo Liaw , Yuehua Huang , Chihjung Kuo , Chia Tong Weng

Dense and complex air traffic scenarios require higher levels of automation than those exhibited by tactical conflict detection and resolution (CD\&R) tools that air traffic controllers (ATCO) use today. However, the air traffic control…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-06-16 George Vouros , George Papadopoulos , Alevizos Bastas , Jose Manuel Cordero , Ruben Rodrigez Rodrigez

Deep reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms can use high-capacity deep networks to learn directly from image observations. However, these high-dimensional observation spaces present a number of challenges in practice, since the policy must…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Alex X. Lee , Anusha Nagabandi , Pieter Abbeel , Sergey Levine

Several studies have employed reinforcement learning (RL) to address the challenges of regional adaptive traffic signal control (ATSC) and achieved promising results. In this field, existing research predominantly adopts multi-agent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Qiang Li , Ningjing Zeng , Lina Yu

Learning-based traffic signal control is typically optimized for average performance under a few nominal demand patterns, which can result in poor behavior under atypical traffic conditions. To address this, we develop a distributionally…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Shuwei Pei , Joran Borger , Arda Kosay , Muhammed O. Sayin , Saeed Ahmed

We consider an improper reinforcement learning setting where a learner is given $M$ base controllers for an unknown Markov decision process, and wishes to combine them optimally to produce a potentially new controller that can outperform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Mohammadi Zaki , Avinash Mohan , Aditya Gopalan , Shie Mannor

The distributed Volt/Var control (VVC) methods have been widely studied for active distribution networks(ADNs), which is based on perfect model and real-time P2P communication. However, the model is always incomplete with significant…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-08 Haotian Liu , Wenchuan Wu

Traffic signal control has a great impact on alleviating traffic congestion in modern cities. Deep reinforcement learning (RL) has been widely used for this task in recent years, demonstrating promising performance but also facing many…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Liwen Zhu , Peixi Peng , Zongqing Lu , Yonghong Tian