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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

Autonomous driving has attracted great interest due to its potential capability in full-unsupervised driving. Model-based and learning-based methods are widely used in autonomous driving. Model-based methods rely on pre-defined models of…

We consider a mixed autonomy scenario where the traffic intersection controller decides whether the traffic light will be green or red at each lane for multiple traffic-light blocks. The objective of the traffic intersection controller is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-25 Erica Salvato , Arnob Ghosh , Gianfranco Fenu , Thomas Parisini

The proliferation of connected automated vehicles represents an unprecedented opportunity for improving driving efficiency and alleviating traffic congestion. However, existing research fails to address realistic multi-lane highway…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Yaron Veksler , Sharon Hornstein , Han Wang , Maria Laura Delle Monache , Daniel Urieli

Human-driven vehicles (HVs) amplify naturally occurring perturbations in traffic, leading to congestion--a major contributor to increased fuel consumption, higher collision risks, and reduced road capacity utilization. While previous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Bibek Poudel , Weizi Li , Kevin Heaslip

Reinforcement Learning (RL) in Traffic Signal Control (TSC) faces significant hurdles in real-world deployment due to limited generalization to dynamic traffic flow variations. Existing approaches often overfit static patterns and use…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Sheng-You Huang , Hsiao-Chuan Chang , Yen-Chi Chen , Ting-Han Wei , I-Hau Yeh , Sheng-Yao Kuan , Chien-Yao Wang , Hsuan-Han Lee , I-Chen Wu

In recent years, the growing demand for more intelligent service robots is pushing the development of mobile robot navigation algorithms to allow safe and efficient operation in a dense crowd. Reinforcement learning (RL) approaches have…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Keyu Li , Ye Lu , Max Q. -H. Meng

Over the years, reinforcement learning has emerged as a popular approach to develop signal control and vehicle platooning strategies either independently or in a hierarchical way. However, jointly controlling both in real-time to alleviate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Xianyue Peng , Shenyang Chen , Hang Gao , Hao Wang , H. Michael Zhang

In this paper, we investigate the coordination of vehicle maneuvers in mixed-traffic corridors where connected and automated vehicles, human-driven vehicles, and buses interact under dedicated bus lane operations. We develop a segment-based…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Tanlu Liang , Ting Bai , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

An outstanding challenge for the widespread deployment of robotic systems like autonomous vehicles is ensuring safe interaction with humans without sacrificing performance. Existing safety methods often neglect the robot's ability to learn…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Haimin Hu , Zixu Zhang , Kensuke Nakamura , Andrea Bajcsy , Jaime F. Fisac

Cooperation among the traffic signals enables vehicles to move through intersections more quickly. Conventional transportation approaches implement cooperation by pre-calculating the offsets between two intersections. Such pre-calculated…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Hua Wei , Nan Xu , Huichu Zhang , Guanjie Zheng , Xinshi Zang , Chacha Chen , Weinan Zhang , Yanmin Zhu , Kai Xu , Zhenhui Li

Robot navigation in dynamic environments shared with humans is an important but challenging task, which suffers from performance deterioration as the crowd grows. In this paper, multi-subgoal robot navigation approach based on deep…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Xinyi Yu , Jianan Hu , Yuehai Fan , Wancai Zheng , Linlin Ou

The recent advancements in wireless technology enable connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs) to gather information about their environment by vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication. In this work, we design an information-sharing-based…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Songyang Han , Shanglin Zhou , Jiangwei Wang , Lynn Pepin , Caiwen Ding , Jie Fu , Fei Miao

Road congestion induces significant costs across the world, and road network disturbances, such as traffic accidents, can cause highly congested traffic patterns. If a planner had control over the routing of all vehicles in the network,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-07 Daniel A. Lazar , Erdem Bıyık , Dorsa Sadigh , Ramtin Pedarsani

Cooperative maneuver planning promises to significantly improve traffic efficiency at unsignalized intersections by leveraging connected automated vehicles. Previous works on this topic have been mostly developed for completely automated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Marvin Klimke , Max Bastian Mertens , Benjamin Völz , Michael Buchholz

Nowadays, autonomous vehicles are gaining traction due to their numerous potential applications in resolving a variety of other real-world challenges. However, developing autonomous vehicles need huge amount of training and testing before…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Jumman Hossain

This paper considers optimal traffic signal control in smart cities, which has been taken as a complex networked system control problem. Given the interacting dynamics among traffic lights and road networks, attaining controller adaptivity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Yao Zhang , Zhiwen Yu , Jun Zhang , Liang Wang , Tom H. Luan , Bin Guo , Chau Yuen

The growing demand for road use in urban areas has led to significant traffic congestion, posing challenges that are costly to mitigate through infrastructure expansion alone. As an alternative, optimizing existing traffic management…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Muhammad Tahir Rafique , Ahmed Mustafa , Hasan Sajid

Knowledge transfer is a promising concept to achieve real-time decision-making for autonomous vehicles. This paper constructs a transfer deep reinforcement learning framework to transform the driving tasks in inter-section environments. The…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Hong Shu , Teng Liu , Xingyu Mu , Dongpu Cao

In this paper, a cooperative decision-making is presented, which is suitable for intention-aware automated vehicle functions. With an increasing number of highly automated and autonomous vehicles on public roads, trust is a very important…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-09 Balint Varga , Dongxu Yang , Sören Hohmann