Combining reinforcement learning with rule-based controllers for transparent and general decision-making in autonomous driving

A Likmeta, AM Metelli, A Tirinzoni, R Giol… - Robotics and …, 2020 - Elsevier
The design of high-level decision-making systems is a topical problem in the field of
autonomous driving. In this paper, we combine traditional rule-based strategies and …

A safety-critical decision-making and control framework combining machine-learning-based and rule-based algorithms

A Aksjonov, V Kyrki - SAE International Journal of Vehicle Dynamics …, 2023 - sae.org
While machine-learning-based methods suffer from a lack of transparency, rule-based (RB)
methods dominate safety-critical systems. Yet the RB approaches cannot compete with the …

A reinforcement learning benchmark for autonomous driving in general urban scenarios

Y Jiang, G Zhan, Z Lan, C Liu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reinforcement learning (RL) has gained significant interest for its potential to improve
decision and control in autonomous driving. However, current approaches have yet to …

Tactical decision-making in autonomous driving by reinforcement learning with uncertainty estimation

CJ Hoel, K Wolff, L Laine - 2020 IEEE intelligent vehicles …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reinforcement learning (RL) can be used to create a tactical decision-making agent for
autonomous driving. However, previous approaches only output decisions and do not …

Transferring multi-agent reinforcement learning policies for autonomous driving using sim-to-real

E Candela, L Parada, L Marques… - 2022 IEEE/RSJ …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous Driving requires high levels of coordination and collaboration between agents.
Achieving effective coordination in multi-agent systems is a difficult task that remains largely …

ADAPS: Autonomous driving via principled simulations

W Li, D Wolinski, MC Lin - 2019 International Conference on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous driving has gained significant advancements in recent years. However,
obtaining a robust control policy for driving remains challenging as it requires training data …

Efficient reinforcement learning for autonomous driving with parameterized skills and priors

L Wang, J Liu, H Shao, W Wang, R Chen, Y Liu… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
When autonomous vehicles are deployed on public roads, they will encounter countless and
diverse driving situations. Many manually designed driving policies are difficult to scale to …

Reinforcement learning with probabilistic guarantees for autonomous driving

M Bouton, J Karlsson, A Nakhaei, K Fujimura… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
Designing reliable decision strategies for autonomous urban driving is challenging.
Reinforcement learning (RL) has been used to automatically derive suitable behavior in …

Offline reinforcement learning for autonomous driving with safety and exploration enhancement

T Shi, D Chen, K Chen, Z Li - arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.07067, 2021 - arxiv.org
Reinforcement learning (RL) is a powerful data-driven control method that has been largely
explored in autonomous driving tasks. However, conventional RL approaches learn control …

Dynamic input for deep reinforcement learning in autonomous driving

M Huegle, G Kalweit, B Mirchevska… - 2019 IEEE/RSJ …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In many real-world decision making problems, reaching an optimal decision requires taking
into account a variable number of objects around the agent. Autonomous driving is a domain …