Large-scale traffic control using autonomous vehicles and decentralized deep reinforcement learning

H Maske, T Chu, U Kalabić - 2019 IEEE Intelligent …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, we introduce a scalable, decentralized deep reinforcement learning (RL)
scheme for optimizing vehicle traffic consisting of both autonomous and human-driven …

An efficiency enhancing methodology for multiple autonomous vehicles in an Urban network adopting deep reinforcement learning

QD Tran, SH Bae - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
To reduce the impact of congestion, it is necessary to improve our overall understanding of
the influence of the autonomous vehicle. Recently, deep reinforcement learning has become …

Deep reinforcement learning based traffic signal optimization for multiple intersections in ITS

A Paul, S Mitra - 2020 IEEE International Conference on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The number of vehicles is drastically increasing worldwide, especially in large cities. Thus
there is a need to model and enhance the traffic management to help meet this rising …

Towards a very large scale traffic simulator for multi-agent reinforcement learning testbeds

Z Hu, C Zhuge, W Ma - 2022 IEEE 25th International …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Smart traffic control and management become an emerging application for Deep
Reinforcement Learning (DRL) to solve traffic congestion problems in urban networks …

Optimizing mixed autonomy traffic flow with decentralized autonomous vehicles and multi-agent rl

E Vinitsky, N Lichtle, K Parvate, A Bayen - arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.00120, 2020 - arxiv.org
We study the ability of autonomous vehicles to improve the throughput of a bottleneck using
a fully decentralized control scheme in a mixed autonomy setting. We consider the problem …

Traffic smoothing controllers for autonomous vehicles using deep reinforcement learning and real-world trajectory data

N Lichtlé, K Jang, A Shah, E Vinitsky… - 2023 IEEE 26th …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Designing traffic-smoothing cruise controllers that can be deployed onto autonomous
vehicles is a key step towards improving traffic flow, reducing congestion, and enhancing …

Optimizing mixed autonomy traffic flow with decentralized autonomous vehicles and multi-agent reinforcement learning

E Vinitsky, N Lichtlé, K Parvate, A Bayen - ACM Transactions on Cyber …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
We study the ability of autonomous vehicles to improve the throughput of a bottleneck using
a fully decentralized control scheme in a mixed autonomy setting. We consider the problem …

Traffic Management of Autonomous Vehicles using Policy Based Deep Reinforcement Learning and Intelligent Routing

A Mushtaq, MA Sarwar, A Khan, O Shafiq - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) uses diverse, unstructured data and makes RL
capable of learning complex policies in high dimensional environments. Intelligent …

Vehicle control in highway traffic by using reinforcement learning and microscopic traffic simulation

L Szoke, S Aradi, T Bécsi… - 2020 IEEE 18th …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The paper presents a simple yet powerful and intelligent driver agent, designed to operate in
a preset highway situation using Policy Gradient Reinforcement Learning (RL) agent. The …

Learning to control and coordinate mixed traffic through robot vehicles at complex and unsignalized intersections

D Wang, W Li, L Zhu, J Pan - arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.05294, 2023 - arxiv.org
Intersections are essential road infrastructures for traffic in modern metropolises. However,
they can also be the bottleneck of traffic flows as a result of traffic incidents or the absence of …