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Effective communication protocols in multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) are critical to fostering cooperation and enhancing team performance. To leverage communication, many previous works have proposed to compress local information…

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Efficient path planning for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is crucial in remote sensing and information collection. As task scales expand, the cooperative deployment of multiple UAVs significantly improves information collection…

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Cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) approaches tackle the challenge of finding effective multi-agent cooperation strategies for accomplishing individual or shared objectives in multi-agent teams. In real-world scenarios,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Yasin Findik , Paul Robinette , Kshitij Jerath , S. Reza Ahmadzadeh

Connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) have the potential to address the safety, mobility and sustainability issues of our current transportation systems. Cooperative adaptive cruise control (CACC), for example, is one promising technology…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Ziran Wang , Guoyuan Wu , Matthew Barth

Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC) is a technology that allows groups of vehicles to form in automated, tightly-coupled platoons. CACC schemes exploit Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) wireless communications to exchange information between…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-08 Mischa Huisman , Carlos Murguia , Erjen Lefeber , Nathan van de Wouw

Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC) is a vehicular technology that allows groups of vehicles on the highway to form in closely-coupled automated platoons to increase highway capacity and safety, and decrease fuel consumption and CO2…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-22 Tianci Yang , Carlos Murguia , Dragan Nešić , Chen Lv

It is recognized that the control of mixed-autonomy platoons comprising connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) and human-driven vehicles (HDVs) can enhance traffic flow. Among existing methods, Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-18 Jingyuan Zhou , Longhao Yan , Jinhao Liang , Kaidi Yang

A challenge in reinforcement learning (RL) is minimizing the cost of sampling associated with exploration. Distributed exploration reduces sampling complexity in multi-agent RL (MARL). We investigate the benefits to performance in MARL when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Justin Lidard , Udari Madhushani , Naomi Ehrich Leonard

As Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) develops, Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs) are expected to significantly reduce traffic congestion through cooperative strategies, such as in bottleneck areas. However, the uncertainty and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-06 Zhengxuan Liu , Yuxin Cai , Yijing Wang , Xiangkun He , Chen Lv , Zhiqiang Zuo

This paper studies the value of communicated motion predictions in the longitudinal control of connected automated vehicles (CAVs). We focus on a safe cooperative adaptive cruise control (CACC) design and analyze the value of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-19 Yeojun Kim , Jacopo Guanetti , Francesco Borrelli

In typical multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) problems, communication is important for agents to share information and make the right decisions. However, due to the complexity of training multi-agent communication, existing methods…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Xuyan Ma , Yawen Wang , Junjie Wang , Xiaofei Xie , Boyu Wu , Shoubin Li , Fanjiang Xu , Qing Wang

Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC) is one of the driving applications of vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs) and promises to bring more efficient and faster transportation through cooperative behavior between vehicles. In CACC,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-12-11 Rens Wouter van der Heijden , Thomas Lukaseder , Frank Kargl

In multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), the centralized training with decentralized execution (CTDE) framework has gained widespread adoption due to its strong performance. However, the further development of CTDE faces two key…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Lunjun Liu , Weilai Jiang , Yaonan Wang

Cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) for navigation enables agents to cooperate to achieve their navigation goals. Using emergent communication, agents learn a communication protocol to coordinate and share information that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Mohamed K. Abdelaziz , Mohammed S. Elbamby , Sumudu Samarakoon , Mehdi Bennis

Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) problems often require cooperation among agents in order to solve a task. Centralization and decentralization are two approaches used for cooperation in MARL. While fully decentralized methods are…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Bengisu Guresti , Nazim Kemal Ure

Cooperative adaptive cruise control(CACC) system provides a great promise to significantly reduce traffic congestion while maintaining a high level of safety. Recent years have seen an increase of using formal methods in the analysis and…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-09-27 Rafael Rodrigues da Silva , Hai Lin

Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC) is an autonomous vehicle-following technology that allows groups of vehicles on the highway to form in tightly-coupled platoons. This is accomplished by exchanging inter-vehicle data through…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-06 Tianci Yang , Carlos Murguia , Chen Lv

Connectivity in ground vehicles allows vehicles to share crucial vehicle data, such as vehicle acceleration, with each other. Using sensors such as cameras, radars and lidars, on the other hand, the intravehicular distance between a leader…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-28 Ozgenur Kavas-Torris , Levent Guvenc

Finding the optimal signal timing strategy is a difficult task for the problem of large-scale traffic signal control (TSC). Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) is a promising method to solve this problem. However, there is still room…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Xiaoqiang Wang , Liangjun Ke , Zhimin Qiao , Xinghua Chai

Cooperative driving, enabled by communication between automated vehicle systems, is expected to significantly contribute to transportation safety and efficiency. Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC) and platooning are two of the main…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-18 Mahdi Razzaghpour , Shahriar Shahram , Rodolfo Valiente , Yaser P. Fallah