Navigating occluded intersections with autonomous vehicles using deep reinforcement learning

D Isele, R Rahimi, A Cosgun… - … on robotics and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Providing an efficient strategy to navigate safely through unsignaled intersections is a
difficult task that requires determining the intent of other drivers. We explore the …

Safe reinforcement learning with scene decomposition for navigating complex urban environments

M Bouton, A Nakhaei, K Fujimura… - 2019 IEEE Intelligent …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Navigating urban environments represents a complex task for automated vehicles. They
must reach their goal safely and efficiently while considering a multitude of traffic …

Reinforcement learning for autonomous driving with latent state inference and spatial-temporal relationships

X Ma, J Li, MJ Kochenderfer, D Isele… - … on Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) provides a promising way for learning navigation in
complex autonomous driving scenarios. However, identifying the subtle cues that can …

High-level decision making for safe and reasonable autonomous lane changing using reinforcement learning

B Mirchevska, C Pek, M Werling… - 2018 21st …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Machine learning techniques have been shown to outperform many rule-based systems for
the decision-making of autonomous vehicles. However, applying machine learning is …

Risk-aware high-level decisions for automated driving at occluded intersections with reinforcement learning

D Kamran, CF Lopez, M Lauer… - 2020 IEEE Intelligent …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reinforcement learning is nowadays a popular framework for solving different decision
making problems in automated driving. However, there are still some remaining crucial …

Learning highway ramp merging via reinforcement learning with temporally-extended actions

S Triest, A Villaflor, JM Dolan - 2020 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Several key scenarios, such as intersection navigation, lane changing, and ramp merging,
are active areas of research in autonomous driving. In order to properly navigate these …

Driving in dense traffic with model-free reinforcement learning

DM Saxena, S Bae, A Nakhaei… - … on Robotics and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Traditional planning and control methods could fail to find a feasible trajectory for an
autonomous vehicle to execute amongst dense traffic on roads. This is because the obstacle …

Safe reinforcement learning on autonomous vehicles

D Isele, A Nakhaei, K Fujimura - 2018 IEEE/RSJ International …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
There have been numerous advances in reinforcement learning, but the typically
unconstrained exploration of the learning process prevents the adoption of these methods in …

Attention-based hierarchical deep reinforcement learning for lane change behaviors in autonomous driving

Y Chen, C Dong, P Palanisamy… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Performing safe and efficient lane changes is a crucial feature for creating fully autonomous
vehicles. Recent advances have demonstrated successful lane following behavior using …

Overtaking maneuvers in simulated highway driving using deep reinforcement learning

M Kaushik, V Prasad, KM Krishna… - 2018 IEEE intelligent …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Most methods that attempt to tackle the problem of Autonomous Driving and overtaking
usually try to either directly minimize an objective function or iteratively in a Reinforcement …