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Cooperative intelligent freeway traffic control is an important application in intelligent transportation systems, which is expected to improve the mobility of freeway networks. In this paper, we propose a deep neuroevolution model, called…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Yuankai Wu , Huachun Tan , Zhuxi Jiang , Bin Ran

Rather than learning new control policies for each new task, it is possible, when tasks share some structure, to compose a "meta-policy" from previously learned policies. This paper reports results from experiments using Deep Reinforcement…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Richard Liaw , Sanjay Krishnan , Animesh Garg , Daniel Crankshaw , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Ken Goldberg

Electric Vehicles (EVs) offer substantial flexibility for grid services, yet large-scale, uncoordinated charging can threaten voltage stability in distribution networks. Existing Reinforcement Learning (RL) approaches for smart charging…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-23 Stavros Orfanoudakis , Frans A. Oliehoek , Peter Palensky , Pedro P. Vergara

With the continued introduction of driverless events to Formula:Society of Automotive Engineers (F:SAE) competitions around the world, teams are investigating all aspects of the autonomous vehicle stack. This paper presents the use of Deep…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Harvey Merton , Thomas Delamore , Karl Stol , Henry Williams

Active Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) are a promising technology for 6G wireless networks. This paper investigates a novel hybrid deep reinforcement learning (DRL) framework for resource allocation in a multi-user uplink system…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-29 Mohamed Shalma , Engy Aly Maher , Ahmed El-Mahdy

This study develops and evaluates a deep reinforcement learning framework for dynamic portfolio allocation across global equity markets. The Soft Actor-Critic algorithm is used to learn continuous portfolio weights within a Markov Decision…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2026-05-19 Kamil Kashif , Robert Ślepaczuk

In recent years, control under urban intersection scenarios becomes an emerging research topic. In such scenarios, the autonomous vehicle confronts complicated situations since it must deal with the interaction with social vehicles timely…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Yuqi Liu , Qichao Zhang , Dongbin Zhao

Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning (GCRL) enables agents to autonomously acquire diverse behaviors, but faces major challenges in visual environments due to high-dimensional, semantically sparse observations. In the online setting,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Nicolas Castanet , Olivier Sigaud , Sylvain Lamprier

This paper introduces an energy-efficient, software-defined vehicular edge network for the growing intelligent connected transportation system. A joint user-centric virtual cell formation and resource allocation problem is investigated to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-18 Md Ferdous Pervej , Shih-Chun Lin

The rapid growth of Electric Vehicle (EV) adoption challenges power distribution networks through peak load spikes, voltage instability, and transformer overloads from uncoordinated charging. While Model Predictive Control (MPC) and…

Reinforcement learning is considered to be a strong AI paradigm which can be used to teach machines through interaction with the environment and learning from their mistakes, but it has not yet been successfully used for automotive…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-12-14 Ahmad El Sallab , Mohammed Abdou , Etienne Perot , Senthil Yogamani

Many reinforcement learning (RL) problems in practice are offline, learning purely from observational data. A key challenge is how to ensure the learned policy is safe, which requires quantifying the risk associated with different actions.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Yecheng Jason Ma , Dinesh Jayaraman , Osbert Bastani

Using Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) can be a promising approach to handle various tasks in the field of (simulated) autonomous driving. However, recent publications mainly consider learning in unusual driving environments. This paper…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Patrick Klose , Rudolf Mester

Modern control systems are increasingly turning to machine learning algorithms to augment their performance and adaptability. Within this context, Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has emerged as a promising control framework, particularly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Thomas Nakken Larsen , Eirik Runde Barlaug , Adil Rasheed

Reinforcement learning (RL) agents are vulnerable to adversarial disturbances, which can deteriorate task performance or compromise safety specifications. Existing methods either address safety requirements under the assumption of no…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Zeyang Li , Chuxiong Hu , Yunan Wang , Yujie Yang , Shengbo Eben Li

Traffic signal control aims to coordinate traffic signals across intersections to improve the traffic efficiency of a district or a city. Deep reinforcement learning (RL) has been applied to traffic signal control recently and demonstrated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Liwen Zhu , Peixi Peng , Zongqing Lu , Xiangqian Wang , Yonghong Tian

Automated driving at unsignalized intersections is challenging due to complex multi-vehicle interactions and the need to balance safety and efficiency. Model Predictive Control (MPC) offers structured constraint handling through…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Saeed Rahmani , Gözde Körpe , Zhenlin , Xu , Bruno Brito , Simeon Craig Calvert , Bart van Arem

This work presents a distributed algorithm for resolving cooperative multi-vehicle conflicts in highly constrained spaces. By formulating the conflict resolution problem as a Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (RL) problem, we can train a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Xu Shen , Francesco Borrelli

We present a deep reinforcement learning framework based on Soft Actor-Critic (SAC) for safe and precise maneuvering of double-Ackermann-steering mobile robots (DASMRs). Unlike holonomic or simpler non-holonomic robots such as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Kohio Deflesselle , Mélodie Daniel , Aly Magassouba , Miguel Aranda , Olivier Ly

Lane change decision-making for autonomous vehicles is a complex but high-reward behavior. In this paper, we propose a hybrid input based deep reinforcement learning (DRL) algorithm, which realizes abstract lane change decisions and lane…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Ziteng Gao , Jiaqi Qu , Chaoyu Chen