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Fully autonomous vehicles promise enhanced safety and efficiency. However, ensuring reliable operation in challenging corner cases requires control algorithms capable of performing at the vehicle limits. We address this requirement by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Grzegorz Czechmanowski , Jan Węgrzynowski , Piotr Kicki , Krzysztof Walas

In pursuit of autonomous vehicles, achieving human-like driving behavior is vital. This study introduces adaptive autopilot (AA), a unique framework utilizing constrained-deep reinforcement learning (C-DRL). AA aims to safely emulate human…

In this survey, we systematically summarize the current literature on studies that apply reinforcement learning (RL) to the motion planning and control of autonomous vehicles. Many existing contributions can be attributed to the pipeline…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Fei Ye , Shen Zhang , Pin Wang , Ching-Yao Chan

Emerging data-driven approaches, such as deep reinforcement learning (DRL), aim at on-the-field learning of powertrain control policies that optimize fuel economy and other performance metrics. Indeed, they have shown great potential in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-30 Lindsey Kerbel , Beshah Ayalew , Andrej Ivanco

A number of deep reinforcement-learning (RL) approaches propose to control traffic signals. In this work, we study the robustness of such methods along two axes. First, sensor failures and GPS occlusions create missing-data challenges and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Tianyu Shi , Francois-Xavier Devailly , Denis Larocque , Laurent Charlin

Vehicles today can drive themselves on highways and driverless robotaxis operate in major cities, with more sophisticated levels of autonomous driving expected to be available and become more common in the future. Yet, technically speaking,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Larry Schester , Luis E. Ortiz

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has demonstrated remarkable success in developing autonomous driving policies. However, its vulnerability to adversarial attacks remains a critical barrier to real-world deployment. Although existing robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Junchao Fan , Qi Wei , Ruichen Zhang , Dusit Niyato , Yang Lu , Jianhua Wang , Xiaolin Chang , Bo Ai

This paper presents a novel model-reference reinforcement learning control method for uncertain autonomous surface vehicles. The proposed control combines a conventional control method with deep reinforcement learning. With the conventional…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-17 Qingrui Zhang , Wei Pan , Vasso Reppa

While deep reinforcement learning (RL) has been increasingly applied in designing car-following models in the last years, this study aims at investigating the feasibility of RL-based vehicle-following for complex vehicle dynamics and strong…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Fabian Hart , Ostap Okhrin , Martin Treiber

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has become a powerful tool for complex decision-making in machine learning and AI. However, traditional methods often assume perfect action execution, overlooking the uncertainties and deviations between an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Oren Fivel , Matan Rudman , Kobi Cohen

Autonomous navigation in dense traffic scenarios remains challenging for autonomous vehicles (AVs) because the intentions of other drivers are not directly observable and AVs have to deal with a wide range of driving behaviors. To maneuver…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Bruno Brito , Achin Agarwal , Javier Alonso-Mora

Behaviour prediction function of an autonomous vehicle predicts the future states of the nearby vehicles based on the current and past observations of the surrounding environment. This helps enhance their awareness of the imminent hazards.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Sajjad Mozaffari , Omar Y. Al-Jarrah , Mehrdad Dianati , Paul Jennings , Alexandros Mouzakitis

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has the potential to surpass human performance in driving without needing any expert supervision. Despite its promise, the state-of-the-art in sensorimotor self-driving is dominated by imitation learning methods…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Ege Onat Özsüer , Barış Akgün , Fatma Güney

Reinforcement learning has demonstrated significant potential in the field of autonomous driving. However, it suffers from defects such as training instability and unsafe action outputs when faced with autonomous racing environments…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Bo Leng , Weiqi Zhang , Zhuoren Li , Lu Xiong , Guizhe Jin , Ran Yu , Chen Lv

Effective traffic control methods have great potential in alleviating network congestion. Existing literature generally focuses on a single control approach, while few studies have explored the effectiveness of integrated and coordinated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Zijian Hu , Wei Ma

The burgeoning field of autonomous driving necessitates the seamless integration of autonomous vehicles (AVs) with human-driven vehicles, calling for more predictable AV behavior and enhanced interaction with human drivers. Human-like…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Yuting Wang , Lu Liu , Maonan Wang , Xi Xiong

Deep learning techniques have been widely applied, achieving state-of-the-art results in various fields of study. This survey focuses on deep learning solutions that target learning control policies for robotics applications. We carry out…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Lei Tai , Jingwei Zhang , Ming Liu , Joschka Boedecker , Wolfram Burgard

Creating safe paths in unknown and uncertain environments is a challenging aspect of leader-follower formation control. In this architecture, the leader moves toward the target by taking optimal actions, and followers should also avoid…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Behnaz Hadi , Alireza Khosravi , Pouria Sarhadi

Recent breakthroughs both in reinforcement learning and trajectory optimization have made significant advances towards real world robotic system deployment. Reinforcement learning (RL) can be applied to many problems without needing any…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Guillaume Bellegarda , Katie Byl

Human-driven vehicles (HVs) exhibit complex and diverse behaviors. Accurately modeling such behavior is crucial for validating Robot Vehicles (RVs) in simulation and realizing the potential of mixed traffic control. However, existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Bibek Poudel , Weizi Li , Shuai Li