Cooperative autonomous vehicles that sympathize with human drivers

B Toghi, R Valiente, D Sadigh… - 2021 IEEE/RSJ …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Widespread adoption of autonomous vehicles will not become a reality until solutions are
developed that enable these intelligent agents to co-exist with humans. This includes safely …

Prediction-Aware and Reinforcement Learning-Based Altruistic Cooperative Driving

R Valiente, M Razzaghpour, B Toghi… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous vehicle (AV) navigation in the presence of Human-driven vehicles (HVs) is
challenging, as HVs continuously update their policies in response to AVs. In order to …

Robustness and adaptability of reinforcement learning-based cooperative autonomous driving in mixed-autonomy traffic

R Valiente, B Toghi, R Pedarsani… - IEEE Open Journal of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Building autonomous vehicles (AVs) is a complex problem, but enabling them to operate in
the real world where they will be surrounded by human-driven vehicles (HVs) is extremely …

Courteous autonomous cars

L Sun, W Zhan, M Tomizuka… - 2018 IEEE/RSJ …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Typically, autonomous cars optimize for a combination of safety, efficiency, and driving
quality. But as we get better at this optimization, we start seeing behavior go from too …

Social interactions for autonomous driving: A review and perspectives

W Wang, L Wang, C Zhang, C Liu… - Foundations and Trends …, 2022 - nowpublishers.com
No human drives a car in a vacuum; she/he must negotiate with other road users to achieve
their goals in social traffic scenes. A rational human driver can interact with other road users …

Social coordination and altruism in autonomous driving

B Toghi, R Valiente, D Sadigh… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Despite the advances in the autonomous driving domain, autonomous vehicles (AVs) are
still inefficient and limited in terms of cooperating with each other or coordinating with …

Towards socially responsive autonomous vehicles: A reinforcement learning framework with driving priors and coordination awareness

J Liu, D Zhou, P Hang, Y Ni… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The advent of autonomous vehicles (AVs) alongside human-driven vehicles (HVs) has
ushered in an era of mixed traffic flow, presenting a significant challenge: the intricate …

Altruistic maneuver planning for cooperative autonomous vehicles using multi-agent advantage actor-critic

B Toghi, R Valiente, D Sadigh, R Pedarsani… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
With the adoption of autonomous vehicles on our roads, we will witness a mixed-autonomy
environment where autonomous and human-driven vehicles must learn to co-exist by …

Social behavior for autonomous vehicles

W Schwarting, A Pierson… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Deployment of autonomous vehicles on public roads promises increased efficiency and
safety. It requires understanding the intent of human drivers and adapting to their driving …

Three strategies for autonomous car-to-pedestrian communication: A survival guide

N Mirnig, N Perterer, G Stollnberger… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
With autonomous cars being released into the wild, the question is how they integrate with
conventional participants in traffic, such as pedestrians. For accident-free traffic, it is …