A deep reinforcement learning approach for efficient, safe and comfortable driving

DC Selvaraj, S Hegde, N Amati, F Deflorio… - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Sensing, computing, and communication advancements allow vehicles to generate and
collect massive amounts of data on their state and surroundings. Such richness of …

An ML-aided reinforcement learning approach for challenging vehicle maneuvers

DC Selvaraj, S Hegde, N Amati… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The richness of information generated by today's vehicles fosters the development of data-
driven decision-making models, with the additional capability to account for the context in …

Adaptive cruise control based on safe deep reinforcement learning

R Zhao, K Wang, W Che, Y Li, Y Fan, F Gao - Sensors, 2024 - mdpi.com
Adaptive cruise control (ACC) enables efficient, safe, and intelligent vehicle control by
autonomously adjusting speed and ensuring a safe following distance from the vehicle in …

Saint-acc: Safety-aware intelligent adaptive cruise control for autonomous vehicles using deep reinforcement learning

LC Das, M Won - International Conference on Machine …, 2021 - proceedings.mlr.press
We present a novel adaptive cruise control (ACC) system namely SAINT-ACC:{S} afety-{A}
ware {Int} elligent {ACC} system (SAINT-ACC) that is designed to achieve simultaneous …

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 …

Toward learning human-like, safe and comfortable car-following policies with a novel deep reinforcement learning approach

MU Yavas, T Kumbasar, NK Ure - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present an advanced adaptive cruise control (ACC) concept powered by
Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) that generates safe, human-like, and comfortable car …

Enhancing Longitudinal Velocity Control With Attention Mechanism-Based Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient (DDPG) for Safety and Comfort

F Islam, JE Ball, CT Goodin - IEEE Access, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The transportation system is moving towards higher levels of autonomy. Longitudinal speed
control, or adaptive cruise control (ACC), is intended to provide driver assistance by …

Safe adaptive deep reinforcement learning for autonomous driving in urban environments. additional filter? How and where?

S Alighanbari, NL Azad - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous driving (AD) provides a reliable solution for safe driving by replacing human
drivers responsible for the majority of accidents. The emergence of Machine Learning …

Model-based reinforcement learning for advanced adaptive cruise control: A hybrid car following policy

U Yavas, T Kumbasar, NK Ure - 2022 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Adaptive cruise control (ACC) is one of the frontier functionality for highly automated
vehicles and has been widely studied by both academia and industry. However, previous …

Autonomous Driving With Perception Uncertainties: Deep-Ensemble Based Adaptive Cruise Control

X Li, HE Tseng, A Girard, I Kolmanovsky - arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.15577, 2024 - arxiv.org
Autonomous driving depends on perception systems to understand the environment and to
inform downstream decision-making. While advanced perception systems utilizing black-box …