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Lane changes are complex safety and throughput critical driver actions. Most lane changing models deal with lane-changing maneuvers solely from the merging driver's standpoint and thus ignore driver interaction. To overcome this…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-08-11 Kyungwon Kang , Hesham A Rakha

Modern vehicles are equipped with increasingly complex sensors. These sensors generate large volumes of data that provide opportunities for modeling and analysis. Here, we are interested in exploiting this data to learn aspects of behaviors…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-01-30 Vadim Smolyakov , Julian Straub , Sue Zheng , John W. Fisher

The core of the freeway merging control problem lies in dynamic queue propagation and dissipation linked to merging vehicle behavior. Traditionally, queuing is modeled through demand-supply interactions with time varying demand and fixed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Qing Tang , Xianbiao Hu

The authors present a cyber-physical systems study on the estimation of driver behavior in autonomous vehicles and vehicle safety systems. Extending upon previous work, the approach described is suitable for the long term estimation and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-01-25 Vijay Gadepally , Ashok Krishnamurthy

Traffic interactions between merging and highway vehicles are a major topic of research, yielding many empirical studies and models of driver behaviour. Most of these studies on merging use naturalistic data. Although this provides insight…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Olger Siebinga , Arkady Zgonnikov , David A. Abbink

Delayed and partially observable state information poses significant challenges for reinforcement learning (RL)-based control in real-world autonomous driving. In highway on-ramp merging, a roadside unit (RSU) can sense nearby traffic,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Amin Tabrizian , Zhitong Huang , Arsyi Aziz , Peng Wei

Autonomous agents that drive on roads shared with human drivers must reason about the nuanced interactions among traffic participants. This poses a highly challenging decision making problem since human behavior is influenced by a multitude…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Salar Arbabi , Davide Tavernini , Saber Fallah , Richard Bowden

To achieve complete autonomous vehicles, it is crucial for autonomous vehicles to communicate and interact with their surrounding vehicles. Especially, since the lane change scenarios do not have traffic signals and traffic rules, the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-05 Jemin Woo , Changsun Ahn

Autonomous vehicles need to accomplish their tasks while interacting with human drivers in traffic. It is thus crucial to equip autonomous vehicles with artificial reasoning to better comprehend the intentions of the surrounding traffic,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Xiao Li , Kaiwen Liu , H. Eric Tseng , Anouck Girard , Ilya Kolmanovsky

Enhancing simulation environments to replicate real-world driver behavior, i.e., more humanlike sim agents, is essential for developing autonomous vehicle technology. In the context of highway merging, previous works have studied the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Dustin Holley , Jovin D'sa , Hossein Nourkhiz Mahjoub , Gibran Ali

This paper discusses the limitations of existing microscopic traffic models in accounting for the potential impacts of on-ramp vehicles on the car-following behavior of main-lane vehicles on highways. We first surveyed U.S. on-ramps to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-23 Dustin Holley , Jovin D'sa , Hossein Nourkhiz Mahjoub , Gibran Ali , Behdad Chalaki , Ehsan Moradi-Pari

On-ramp merging areas are typical bottlenecks in the freeway network, since merging on-ramp vehicles may cause intensive disturbances on the mainline traffic flow and lead to various negative impacts on traffic efficiency and safety. The…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-23 Jie Zhu , Said Easa , Kun Gao

Ramp merging is a typical application of cooperative intelligent transportation system (C-ITS). Vehicle trajectories perceived by roadside sensors are importation complement to the limited visual field of on-board perception. Vehicle…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Wei Ji , Yechi Ma , Guangzhang Cui , Xiaotian Qin , Wei Hua

Hidden Markov models (HMMs) are popular tools for analysing animal behaviour based on movement, acceleration and other sensor data. In particular, these models allow to infer how the animal's decision-making process interacts with internal…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-22 Maya N. Vienken , Jan-Ole Koslik , Roland Langrock

In a mixed-traffic scenario where both autonomous vehicles and human-driving vehicles exist, a timely prediction of driving intentions of nearby human-driving vehicles is essential for the safe and efficient driving of an autonomous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Shiwen Liu , Kan Zheng , Long Zhao , Pingzhi Fan

Autonomous vehicles use a variety of sensors and machine-learned models to predict the behavior of surrounding road users. Most of the machine-learned models in the literature focus on quantitative error metrics like the root mean square…

On-ramp merging is a challenging task for autonomous vehicles (AVs), especially in mixed traffic where AVs coexist with human-driven vehicles (HDVs). In this paper, we formulate the mixed-traffic highway on-ramp merging problem as a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-08 Dong Chen , Mohammad Hajidavalloo , Zhaojian Li , Kaian Chen , Yongqiang Wang , Longsheng Jiang , Yue Wang

Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs) are envisioned to transform the future industrial and private transportation sectors. However, due to the system's enormous complexity, functional verification and validation of safety aspects are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Lars Klitzke , Kay Gimm , Carsten Koch , Frank Köster

Hidden Markov Models with an underlying Mixture of Gaussian structure have proven effective in learning Human-Robot Interactions from demonstrations for various interactive tasks via Gaussian Mixture Regression. However, a mismatch occurs…

Ramp merging is a critical and challenging task for autonomous vehicles (AVs), particularly in mixed traffic environments with human-driven vehicles (HVs). Existing approaches typically rely on either lane-changing or inter-vehicle gap…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Yassine Ibork , Myounggyu Won , Lokesh Das