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Traffic congestion in dense urban centers presents an economical and environmental burden. In recent years, the availability of vehicle-to-anything communication allows for the transmission of detailed vehicle states to the infrastructure…

An efficient and reliable multi-agent decision-making system is highly demanded for the safe and efficient operation of connected autonomous vehicles in intelligent transportation systems. Current researches mainly focus on the Deep…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Qi Liu , Zirui Li , Xueyuan Li , Jingda Wu , Shihua Yuan

Overtaking on two-lane roads is a great challenge for autonomous vehicles, as oncoming traffic appearing on the opposite lane may require the vehicle to change its decision and abort the overtaking. Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Jinxiong Lu , Gokhan Alcan , Ville Kyrki

Lane-change maneuvers are commonly executed by drivers to follow a certain routing plan, overtake a slower vehicle, adapt to a merging lane ahead, etc. However, improper lane change behaviors can be a major cause of traffic flow disruptions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Fei Ye , Xuxin Cheng , Pin Wang , Ching-Yao Chan , Jiucai Zhang

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

Connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) have the potential to enhance driving safety, for example by enabling safe vehicle following and more efficient traffic scheduling. For such future deployments, safety requirements should be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Jianbo Wang , Galina Sidorenko , Johan Thunberg

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) provides a promising way for learning navigation in complex autonomous driving scenarios. However, identifying the subtle cues that can indicate drastically different outcomes remains an open problem with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Xiaobai Ma , Jiachen Li , Mykel J. Kochenderfer , David Isele , Kikuo Fujimura

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) is used here for decentralized decision-making and longitudinal control for high-speed on-ramp merging. The DRL environment state includes the states of five vehicles: the merging vehicle, along with two…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Yuan Lin , John McPhee , Nasser L. Azad

Reinforcement Learning (RL) is increasingly applied to large-scale decision-making problems like logistics, scheduling, and recommender systems, but existing algorithms struggle with the curse of dimensionality in such large discrete action…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Heiko Hoppe , Fabian Akkerman , Wouter van Heeswijk , Maximilian Schiffer

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

Traffic signal control is one of the most effective methods of traffic management in urban areas. In recent years, traffic control methods based on deep reinforcement learning (DRL) have gained attention due to their ability to exploit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Majid Raeis , Alberto Leon-Garcia

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has emerged as a powerful model-free paradigm for learning optimal policies. However, in navigation tasks with cluttered environments, DRL methods often suffer from insufficient exploration, especially…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Licheng Luo , Mingyu Cai

Recent advances in supervised learning and reinforcement learning have provided new opportunities to apply related methodologies to automated driving. However, there are still challenges to achieve automated driving maneuvers in dynamically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Fei Ye , Pin Wang , Ching-Yao Chan , Jiucai Zhang

As a strategy to reduce travel delay and enhance energy efficiency, platooning of connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) at non-signalized intersections has become increasingly popular in academia. However, few studies have attempted to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Duowei Li , Jianping Wu , Feng Zhu , Tianyi Chen , Yiik Diew Wong

Urban Traffic Control (UTC) plays an essential role in Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) but remains difficult. Since model-based UTC methods may not accurately describe the complex nature of traffic dynamics in all situations,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-08-27 Yilun Lin , Xingyuan Dai , Li Li , Fei-Yue Wang

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

Recent work has shown that the introduction of autonomous vehicles (AVs) in traffic could help reduce traffic jams. Deep reinforcement learning methods demonstrate good performance in complex control problems, including autonomous vehicle…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Yue Wang , Esha Sarkar , Wenqing Li , Michail Maniatakos , Saif Eddin Jabari

Inefficient traffic signal control methods may cause numerous problems, such as traffic congestion and waste of energy. Reinforcement learning (RL) is a trending data-driven approach for adaptive traffic signal control in complex urban…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-14 Zhenning Li , Chengzhong Xu , Guohui Zhang

Autonomous driving has been at the forefront of public interest, and a pivotal debate to widespread concerns is safety in the transportation system. Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has been applied to autonomous driving to provide…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Zehong Cao , Jie Yun

Existing ineffective and inflexible traffic light control at urban intersections can often lead to congestion in traffic flows and cause numerous problems, such as long delay and waste of energy. How to find the optimal signal timing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Chenguang Zhao , Xiaorong Hu , Gang Wang