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The integration of Automated Vehicles (AVs) into traffic flow holds the potential to significantly improve traffic congestion by enabling AVs to function as actuators within the flow. This paper introduces an adaptive speed controller…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-20 Han Wang , Hossein Nick Zinat Matin , Maria Laura Delle Monache

This paper devotes to the development of an optimal acceleration/speed profile for autonomous vehicles approaching a traffic light. The design objective is to achieve both short travel time and low energy consumption as well as avoid idling…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-28 Xiangyu Meng , Christos G. Cassandras

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

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

Today's intelligent traffic light control system is based on the current road traffic conditions for traffic regulation. However, these approaches cannot exploit the future traffic information in advance. In this paper, we propose GPlight,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Xiaorong Hu , Chenguang Zhao , Gang Wang

This research presents a novel active detection model utilizing deep reinforcement learning to accurately detect traffic objects in real-world scenarios. The model employs a deep Q-network based on LSTM-CNN that identifies and aligns target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Xinyu Ren , Ruixuan Wang

Traffic signal control (TSC) is a core challenge in urban mobility, where real-time decisions must balance efficiency and safety. Existing methods - ranging from rule-based heuristics to reinforcement learning (RL) - often struggle to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-12 Maonan Wang , Yirong Chen , Aoyu Pang , Yuxin Cai , Chung Shue Chen , Yuheng Kan , Man-On Pun

The adaptive traffic signal control (ATSC) problem can be modeled as a multiagent cooperative game among urban intersections, where intersections cooperate to optimize their common goal. Recently, reinforcement learning (RL) has achieved…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Chengwei Zhang , Shan Jin , Wanli Xue , Xiaofei Xie , Shengyong Chen , Rong Chen

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

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used for decision-making and planning in autonomous driving, showing promising reasoning capabilities and potential to generalize across diverse traffic situations. However, current LLM-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Fabian Schmidt , Noushiq Mohammed Kayilan Abdul Nazar , Markus Enzweiler , Abhinav Valada

In this paper, we develop a safe decision-making method for self-driving cars in a multi-lane, single-agent setting. The proposed approach utilizes deep reinforcement learning (RL) to achieve a high-level policy for safe tactical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Arash Mohammadhasani , Hamed Mehrivash , Alan Lynch , Zhan Shu

Reinforcement learning (RL) requires skillful definition and remarkable computational efforts to solve optimization and control problems, which could impair its prospect. Introducing human guidance into reinforcement learning is a promising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Jingda Wu , Zhiyu Huang , Wenhui Huang , Chen Lv

End-to-end autonomous driving, where the entire driving pipeline is replaced with a single neural network, has recently gained research attention because of its simpler structure and faster inference time. Despite this appealing approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Hongkuan Zhou , Wei Cao , Aifen Sui , Zhenshan Bing

Traffic signal control is a challenging real-world problem aiming to minimize overall travel time by coordinating vehicle movements at road intersections. Existing traffic signal control systems in use still rely heavily on oversimplified…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Chi-Chun Chao , Jun-Wei Hsieh , Bor-Shiun Wang

Reinforcement learning has been revolutionizing the traditional traffic signal control task, showing promising power to relieve congestion and improve efficiency. However, the existing methods lack effective learning mechanisms capable of…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Jiaming Lu , Jingqing Ruan , Haoyuan Jiang , Ziyue Li , Hangyu Mao , Rui Zhao

Traffic congestion is a persistent problem in our society. Previous methods for traffic control have proven futile in alleviating current congestion levels leading researchers to explore ideas with robot vehicles given the increased…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Michael Villarreal , Bibek Poudel , Jia Pan , Weizi Li

The increasing prevalence of large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-4 in various applications has led to a surge in the size of prompts required for optimal performance, leading to challenges in computational efficiency. Prompt…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Shivam Shandilya , Menglin Xia , Supriyo Ghosh , Huiqiang Jiang , Jue Zhang , Qianhui Wu , Victor Rühle

Traffic signal control is an emerging application scenario for reinforcement learning. Besides being as an important problem that affects people's daily life in commuting, traffic signal control poses its unique challenges for reinforcement…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Huichu Zhang , Siyuan Feng , Chang Liu , Yaoyao Ding , Yichen Zhu , Zihan Zhou , Weinan Zhang , Yong Yu , Haiming Jin , Zhenhui Li

In the past decades, we have witnessed significant progress in the domain of autonomous driving. Advanced techniques based on optimization and reinforcement learning (RL) become increasingly powerful at solving the forward problem: given…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Zheng Wu , Liting Sun , Wei Zhan , Chenyu Yang , Masayoshi Tomizuka

Fast and efficient transport protocols are the foundation of an increasingly distributed world. The burden of continuously delivering improved communication performance to support next-generation applications and services, combined with the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Raffaele Galliera , Alessandro Morelli , Roberto Fronteddu , Niranjan Suri