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This paper presents a safe learning-based eco-driving framework tailored for mixed traffic flows, which aims to optimize energy efficiency while guaranteeing safety during real-system operations. Even though reinforcement learning (RL) is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-01 Ke Lu , Dongjun Li , Qun Wang , Kaidi Yang , Lin Zhao , Ziyou Song

Traffic signal controllers play an essential role in today's traffic system. However, the majority of them currently is not sufficiently flexible or adaptive to generate optimal traffic schedules. In this paper we present an approach to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Shengchao Yan , Jingwei Zhang , Daniel Büscher , Wolfram Burgard

Autonomous driving in urban crowds at unregulated intersections is challenging, where dynamic occlusions and uncertain behaviors of other vehicles should be carefully considered. Traditional methods are heuristic and based on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Peide Cai , Sukai Wang , Hengli Wang , Ming Liu

Reinforcement Learning (RL) is increasingly used in autonomous driving (AD) and shows clear advantages. However, most RL-based AD methods overlook policy structure design. An RL policy that only outputs short-timescale vehicle control…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Guizhe Jin , Zhuoren Li , Bo Leng , Ran Yu , Lu Xiong , Chen Sun

Adaptive traffic signal control (ATSC) can effectively reduce vehicle travel times by dynamically adjusting signal timings but poses a critical challenge in real-world scenarios due to the complexity of real-time decision-making in dynamic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Yuxuan Wang , Meng Long , Qiang Wu , Wei Liu , Jiatian Pi , Xinmin Yang

Active suspension systems are critical for enhancing vehicle comfort, safety, and stability, yet their performance is often limited by fixed hardware designs and control strategies that cannot adapt to uncertain and dynamic operating…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Ying-Kuan Tsai , Yi-Ping Chen , Vispi Karkaria , Wei Chen

Partially Detected Intelligent Traffic Signal Control (PD-ITSC) systems that can optimize traffic signals based on limited detected information could be a cost-efficient solution for mitigating traffic congestion in the future. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-25 Rusheng Zhang , Romain Leteurtre , Benjamin Striner , Ammar Alanazi , Abdullah Alghafis , Ozan K. Tonguz

Ramp metering that uses traffic signals to regulate vehicle flows from the on-ramps has been widely implemented to improve vehicle mobility of the freeway. Previous studies generally update signal timings in real-time based on predefined…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Bing Liu , Yu Tang , Yuxiong Ji , Yu Shen , Yuchuan Du

Coordinating intersections in arterial networks is critical to the performance of urban transportation systems. Deep reinforcement learning (RL) has gained traction in traffic control research along with data-driven approaches for traffic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-30 Keith Anshilo Diaz , Damian Dailisan , Umang Sharaf , Carissa Santos , Qijian Gan , Francis Aldrine Uy , May T. Lim , Alexandre M. Bayen

This article presents a digital twin (DT)-enhanced reinforcement learning (RL) framework aimed at optimizing performance and reliability in network resource management, since the traditional RL methods face several unified challenges when…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-18 Nan Cheng , Xiucheng Wang , Zan Li , Zhisheng Yin , Tom Luan , Xuemin Shen

Urban traffic is subject to disruptions that cause extended waiting time and safety issues at signalized intersections. While numerous studies have addressed the issue of intelligent traffic systems in the context of various disturbances,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Qinchen Yang , Zejun Xie , Hua Wei , Desheng Zhang , Yu Yang

This paper proposes a reinforcement learning approach for traffic control with the adaptive horizon. To build the controller for the traffic network, a Q-learning-based strategy that controls the green light passing time at the network…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Wentao Chen , Tehuan Chen , Guang Lin

Single occupancy vehicles are the most attractive transportation alternative for many commuters, leading to increased traffic congestion and air pollution. Advancements in information technologies create opportunities for smart solutions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Dimitris M. Vlachogiannis , Hua Wei , Scott Moura , Jane Macfarlane

System optimal traffic routing can mitigate congestion by assigning routes for a portion of vehicles so that the total travel time of all vehicles in the transportation system can be reduced. However, achieving real-time optimal routing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Zemian Ke , Qiling Zou , Jiachao Liu , Sean Qian

Developing an autonomous vehicle control strategy for signalised intersections (SI) is one of the challenging tasks due to its inherently complex decision-making process. This study proposes a Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) based…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Pankaj Kumar , Aditya Mishra , Pranamesh Chakraborty , Subrahmanya Swamy Peruru

Emerging vehicular systems with increasing proportions of automated components present opportunities for optimal control to mitigate congestion and increase efficiency. There has been a recent interest in applying deep reinforcement…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Zhongxia Yan , Abdul Rahman Kreidieh , Eugene Vinitsky , Alexandre M. Bayen , Cathy Wu

Traffic signal control (TSC) is crucial for reducing traffic congestion leading to smoother traffic flow, reduced idle time, and mitigated CO2 emissions. In this paper, we explore the computer vision approach for TSC that modulates on-road…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Pan He , Quanyi Li , Xiaoyong Yuan , Bolei Zhou

Advanced vehicle control is a fundamental building block in the development of autonomous driving systems. Reinforcement learning (RL) promises to achieve control performance superior to classical approaches while keeping computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Bernd Frauenknecht , Tobias Ehlgen , Sebastian Trimpe

Reinforcement learning (RL)-based driver assistance systems seek to improve fuel consumption via continual improvement of powertrain control actions considering experiential data from the field. However, the need to explore diverse…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Habtamu Hailemichael , Beshah Ayalew , Lindsey Kerbel , Andrej Ivanco , Keith Loiselle

Effective network congestion control strategies are key to keeping the Internet (or any large computer network) operational. Network congestion control has been dominated by hand-crafted heuristics for decades. Recently,…