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Automated Lane Change Decision Making using Deep Reinforcement Learning in Dynamic and Uncertain Highway Environment

Robotics 2019-09-26 v1 Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Systems and Control Systems and Control Machine Learning

Abstract

Autonomous lane changing is a critical feature for advanced autonomous driving systems, that involves several challenges such as uncertainty in other driver's behaviors and the trade-off between safety and agility. In this work, we develop a novel simulation environment that emulates these challenges and train a deep reinforcement learning agent that yields consistent performance in a variety of dynamic and uncertain traffic scenarios. Results show that the proposed data-driven approach performs significantly better in noisy environments compared to methods that rely solely on heuristics.

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@article{arxiv.1909.11538,
  title  = {Automated Lane Change Decision Making using Deep Reinforcement Learning in Dynamic and Uncertain Highway Environment},
  author = {Ali Alizadeh and Majid Moghadam and Yunus Bicer and Nazim Kemal Ure and Ugur Yavas and Can Kurtulus},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.11538},
  year   = {2019}
}

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Accepted to IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference - ITSC 2019

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