Trajectory planning for autonomous vehicles using hierarchical reinforcement learning

KB Naveed, Z Qiao, JM Dolan - 2021 IEEE International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Planning safe trajectories under uncertain and dynamic conditions makes the autonomous
driving problem significantly complex. Current heuristic-based algorithms such as the slot …

Safe reinforcement learning with policy-guided planning for autonomous driving

J Rong, N Luan - 2020 IEEE International Conference on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The uncertainty and complexity of autonomous driving make Deep Reinforcement Learning
(DRL) appealing. DRL can optimize the expected reward by interacting with environments …

A safe hierarchical planning framework for complex driving scenarios based on reinforcement learning

J Li, L Sun, J Chen, M Tomizuka… - 2021 IEEE International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous vehicles need to handle various traffic conditions and make safe and efficient
decisions and maneuvers. However, on the one hand, a single optimization/sampling-based …

Integrating deep reinforcement learning with model-based path planners for automated driving

E Yurtsever, L Capito, K Redmill… - 2020 IEEE Intelligent …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automated driving in urban settings is challenging. Human participant behavior is difficult to
model, and conventional, rule-based Automated Driving Systems (ADSs) tend to fail when …

A survey of deep reinforcement learning algorithms for motion planning and control of autonomous vehicles

F Ye, S Zhang, P Wang, CY Chan - 2021 IEEE Intelligent …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this survey, we systematically summarize the current literature on studies that apply
reinforcement learning (RL) to the motion planning and control of autonomous vehicles …

CommonRoad-RL: A configurable reinforcement learning environment for motion planning of autonomous vehicles

X Wang, H Krasowski, M Althoff - 2021 IEEE International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reinforcement learning (RL) methods have gained popularity in the field of motion planning
for autonomous vehicles due to their success in robotics and computer games. However, no …

DQ-GAT: Towards safe and efficient autonomous driving with deep Q-learning and graph attention networks

P Cai, H Wang, Y Sun, M Liu - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous driving in multi-agent dynamic traffic scenarios is challenging: the behaviors of
road users are uncertain and are hard to model explicitly, and the ego-vehicle should apply …

Vision-based trajectory planning via imitation learning for autonomous vehicles

P Cai, Y Sun, Y Chen, M Liu - 2019 IEEE Intelligent …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reliable trajectory planning like human drivers in real-world dynamic urban environments is
a critical capability for autonomous driving. To this end, we develop a vision and imitation …

Differentiable integrated motion prediction and planning with learnable cost function for autonomous driving

Z Huang, H Liu, J Wu, C Lv - IEEE transactions on neural …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Predicting the future states of surrounding traffic participants and planning a safe, smooth,
and socially compliant trajectory accordingly are crucial for autonomous vehicles (AVs) …

Hierarchical reinforcement learning method for autonomous vehicle behavior planning

Z Qiao, Z Tyree, P Mudalige… - 2020 IEEE/RSJ …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Behavioral decision making is an important aspect of autonomous vehicles (AV). In this
work, we propose a behavior planning structure based on hierarchical reinforcement …