Heuristics‐oriented overtaking decision making for autonomous vehicles using reinforcement learning

T Liu, B Huang, Z Deng, H Wang… - … Electrical Systems in …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This study presents a three‐lane highway overtaking strategy for an automated vehicle,
which is based on a heuristic planning reinforcement learning algorithm. The proposed …

Addressing inherent uncertainty: Risk-sensitive behavior generation for automated driving using distributional reinforcement learning

J Bernhard, S Pollok, A Knoll - 2019 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For highly automated driving above SAE level 3, behavior generation algorithms must
reliably consider the inherent uncertainties of the traffic environment, eg arising from the …

Safe reinforcement learning for autonomous vehicles through parallel constrained policy optimization

L Wen, J Duan, SE Li, S Xu… - 2020 IEEE 23rd …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reinforcement learning (RL) is attracting increasing interests in autonomous driving due to
its potential to solve complex classification and control problems. However, existing RL …

Behavior and interaction-aware motion planning for autonomous driving vehicles based on hierarchical intention and motion prediction

D Li, Y Wu, B Bai, Q Hao - 2020 IEEE 23rd International …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Safe motion planning in complex and interactive environments is one of the major
challenges for developing autonomous vehicles. In this paper, we propose an interaction …

Improved deep reinforcement learning with expert demonstrations for urban autonomous driving

H Liu, Z Huang, J Wu, C Lv - 2022 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Learning-based approaches, such as reinforcement learning (RL) and imitation learning
(IL), have indicated superiority over rule-based approaches in complex urban autonomous …

Trustworthy safety improvement for autonomous driving using reinforcement learning

Z Cao, S Xu, X Jiao, H Peng, D Yang - Transportation research part C …, 2022 - Elsevier
Reinforcement learning (RL) can learn from past failures and has the potential to provide
self-improvement ability and higher-level intelligence. However, the current RL algorithms …

Autonomous highway driving using deep reinforcement learning

S Nageshrao, HE Tseng, D Filev - 2019 IEEE International …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The operational space of an autonomous vehicle (AV) can be diverse and vary significantly.
Due to this, formulating a rule based decision maker for selecting driving maneuvers may …

Autonomous vehicle navigation using evolutionary reinforcement learning

A Stafylopatis, K Blekas - European Journal of Operational Research, 1998 - Elsevier
Reinforcement learning schemes perform direct on-line search in control space. This makes
them appropriate for modifying control rules to obtain improvements in the performance of a …

Adaptive behaviour selection for autonomous vehicle through naturalistic speed planning

M Rodrigues, G Gest, A McGordon… - 2017 IEEE 20th …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As autonomous technologies in ground vehicle application begin to mature, there is a
greater acceptance that they can eventually exhaust human involvement in the driving …

Deep inverse reinforcement learning for behavior prediction in autonomous driving: Accurate forecasts of vehicle motion

T Fernando, S Denman, S Sridharan… - IEEE Signal …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Accurate behavior anticipation is essential for autonomous vehicles when navigating in
close proximity to other vehicles, pedestrians, and cyclists. Thanks to the recent advances in …