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Synchronizing decisions across multiple agents in realistic settings is problematic since it requires agents to wait for other agents to terminate and communicate about termination reliably. Ideally, agents should learn and execute…

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Active traffic management with autonomous vehicles offers the potential for reduced congestion and improved traffic flow. However, developing effective algorithms for real-world scenarios requires overcoming challenges related to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Shengchao Yan , Lukas König , Wolfram Burgard

In this paper, a continuous-time adaptive actor-critic reinforcement learning (RL) controller is developed for drift-free nonlinear systems. Practical examples of such systems are image-based visual servoing (IBVS) and wheeled mobile robots…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-14 Ashwin P. Dani , Shubhendu Bhasin

Vehicle-to-everything (V2X) perception is an innovative technology that enhances vehicle perception accuracy, thereby elevating the security and reliability of autonomous systems. However, existing V2X perception methods focus on static…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Jiayao Tan , Fan Lyu , Linyan Li , Fuyuan Hu , Tingliang Feng , Fenglei Xu , Rui Yao

Control of batch processes is a difficult task due to their complex nonlinear dynamics and unsteady-state operating conditions within batch and batch-to-batch. It is expected that some of these challenges can be addressed by developing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-20 Tanuja Joshi , Shikhar Makker , Hariprasad Kodamana , Harikumar Kandath

In cooperative stochastic games multiple agents work towards learning joint optimal actions in an unknown environment to achieve a common goal. In many real-world applications, however, constraints are often imposed on the actions that can…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Raghuram Bharadwaj Diddigi , Sai Koti Reddy Danda , Prabuchandran K. J. , Shalabh Bhatnagar

Caching popular contents in vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication networks is expected to play an important role in road traffic management, the realization of intelligent transportation systems (ITSs), and the delivery of multimedia…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-20 Tengchan Zeng , Omid Semiari , Walid Saad

We focus on a simulation-based optimization problem of choosing the best design from the feasible space. Although the simulation model can be queried with finite samples, its internal processing rule cannot be utilized in the optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Kuo Li , Qing-Shan Jia , Jiaqi Yan

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

As self-driving cars increasingly penetrate our daily lives, vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications are emerging as one of the key enabler technologies. However, the dynamicity of vehicles (one of whose causes is the mobility of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-30 Dhruba Sunuwar , Seungmo Kim

Stand-alone perception systems in autonomous driving suffer from limited sensing ranges and occlusions at extended distances, potentially resulting in catastrophic outcomes. To address this issue, collaborative perception is envisioned to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Yandi Liu , Guowei Liu , Le Liang , Hao Ye , Chongtao Guo , Shi Jin

Deep reinforcement learning has shown promise in various engineering applications, including vehicular traffic control. The non-stationary nature of traffic, especially in the lane-free environment with more degrees of freedom in vehicle…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Mehran Berahman , Majid Rostami-Shahrbabaki , Klaus Bogenberger

With the rapid growth of autonomous vehicle technologies, effective path-tracking control has become a critical component in ensuring safety and efficiency in complex traffic scenarios. When a high level decision making agent generates a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-30 Xincheng Cao , Haochong Chen , Levent Guvenc , Bilin Aksun-Guvenc

Active distribution networks (ADNs) incorporating massive photovoltaic (PV) devices encounter challenges of rapid voltage fluctuations and potential violations. Due to the fluctuation and intermittency of PV generation, the state gap,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-28 Hong Cheng , Huan Luo , Zhi Liu , Wei Sun , Weitao Li , Qiyue Li

In our work we implicitly suggest that it is a misconception to think that humans learn fast. The learning process takes time. Babies start learning to move in the restricted fluid environment of the womb. Children are often limited by…

Connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) rely on wireless communication to exchange state information for distributed control, making communication delays a critical factor that can affect vehicle motion and degrade control performance,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Chen Huang , Ronghui Hou

Vehicle-to-everything communications-assisted autonomous driving has witnessed remarkable advancements in recent years, with pragmatic communications (PragComm) emerging as a promising paradigm for real-time collaboration among vehicles and…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Jiahao Huang , Jianhang Zhu , Rongpeng Li , Zhifeng Zhao , Honggang Zhang

Robust Reinforcement Learning aims to derive optimal behavior that accounts for model uncertainty in dynamical systems. However, previous studies have shown that by considering the worst case scenario, robust policies can be overly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Esther Derman , Daniel J. Mankowitz , Timothy A. Mann , Shie Mannor

The exploitation of extra state information has been an active research area in multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL). QMIX represents the joint action-value using a non-negative function approximator and achieves the best performance,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Jianyu Su , Stephen Adams , Peter A. Beling

This work investigates the formal policy synthesis of continuous-state stochastic dynamic systems given high-level specifications in linear temporal logic. To learn an optimal policy that maximizes the satisfaction probability, we take a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Lening Li , Zhentian Qian