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Drowsiness reduces concentration and increases response time, which causes fatal road accidents. Monitoring drivers' drowsiness levels by electroencephalogram (EEG) and taking action may prevent road accidents. EEG signals effectively…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-29 Dong-Young Kim , Dong-Kyun Han , Hye-Bin Shin

Changes and advances in information technology have played an important role in the development of intelligent vehicle systems in recent years. Driver fatigue and distracted driving are important factors in traffic accidents. Thus, onboard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Dongjiang Wu

A key component in autonomous driving is the ability of the self-driving car to understand, track and predict the dynamics of the surrounding environment. Although there is significant work in the area of object detection, tracking and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Cosmin Ginerica , Mihai Zaha , Florin Gogianu , Lucian Busoniu , Bogdan Trasnea , Sorin Grigorescu

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

With the advent of universal function approximators in the domain of reinforcement learning, the number of practical applications leveraging deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has exploded. Decision-making in autonomous vehicles (AVs) has…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Hanxi Wan , Pei Li , Arpan Kusari

Road traffic accidents remain a significant global concern, with the majority attributed to human factors such as driver distraction and fatigue. This study proposes a camera-based approach to derive useful indicators to assess driver…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Carmelo Scribano , Giovanni Cappelletti , Elia Giacobazzi , Giorgia Franchini , Paolo Burgio , Marko Bertogna

The dynamic nature of driving environments and the presence of diverse road users pose significant challenges for decision-making in autonomous driving. Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has emerged as a popular approach to tackle this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Iman Sharifi , Mustafa Yildirim , Saber Fallah

Automated vehicles are deemed to be the key element for the intelligent transportation system in the future. Many studies have been made to improve the Automated vehicles' ability of environment recognition and vehicle control, while the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Yingjun Ye , Xiaohui Zhang , Jian Sun

In this paper, we explore the challenges associated with navigating complex T-intersections in dense traffic scenarios for autonomous vehicles (AVs). Reinforcement learning algorithms have emerged as a promising approach to address these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Badr Ben Elallid , Hamza El Alaoui , Nabil Benamar

Drowsiness can put lives of many drivers and workers in danger. It is important to design practical and easy-to-deploy real-world systems to detect the onset of drowsiness.In this paper, we address early drowsiness detection, which can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Reza Ghoddoosian , Marnim Galib , Vassilis Athitsos

In recent years, road accidents have increased significantly. One of the major reasons for these accidents, as reported is driver fatigue. Due to continuous and longtime driving, the driver gets exhausted and drowsy which may lead to an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Rajat Gupta , Kanishk Aman , Nalin Shiva , Yadvendra Singh

This paper presents a safe reinforcement learning system for automated driving that benefits from multimodal future trajectory predictions. We propose a safety system that consists of two safety components: a heuristic safety and a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-18 Ali Baheri

Decision-making module enables autonomous vehicles to reach appropriate maneuvers in the complex urban environments, especially the intersection situations. This work proposes a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) based left-turn…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Feng Wang , Dongjie Shi , Teng Liu , Xiaolin Tang

In safety-critical domains like automated driving (AD), errors by the object detector may endanger pedestrians and other vulnerable road users (VRU). As common evaluation metrics are not an adequate safety indicator, recent works employ…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Maria Lyssenko , Piyush Pimplikar , Maarten Bieshaar , Farzad Nozarian , Rudolph Triebel

Autonomous driving is a promising technology to reduce traffic accidents and improve driving efficiency. In this work, a deep reinforcement learning (DRL)-enabled decision-making policy is constructed for autonomous vehicles to address the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-20 Jiangdong Liao , Teng Liu , Xiaolin Tang , Xingyu Mu , Bing Huang , Dongpu Cao

In the coming years and decades, autonomous vehicles (AVs) will become increasingly prevalent, offering new opportunities for safer and more convenient travel and potentially smarter traffic control methods exploiting automation and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Tianyu Shi , Yifei Ai , Omar ElSamadisy , Baher Abdulhai

Urban traffic congestion presents a significant challenge for modern cities, which impacts mobility and sustainability. Traditional traffic light control systems often fail to adapt to dynamic conditions, leading to inefficiencies. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Matteo Cederle , Giacomo Scatto , Gian Antonio Susto

Machine learning techniques have outperformed numerous rule-based methods for decision-making in autonomous vehicles. Despite recent efforts, lane changing remains a major challenge, due to the complex driving scenarios and changeable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Kunpeng Xu , Lifei Chen , Shengrui Wang

Control theory provides engineers with a multitude of tools to design controllers that manipulate the closed-loop behavior and stability of dynamical systems. These methods rely heavily on insights about the mathematical model governing the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Simen Theie Havenstrøm , Adil Rasheed , Omer San

In the field of autonomous robots, reinforcement learning (RL) is an increasingly used method to solve the task of dynamic obstacle avoidance for mobile robots, autonomous ships, and drones. A common practice to train those agents is to use…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Fabian Hart , Ostap Okhrin