Automated driving highway traffic merging using deep multi-agent reinforcement learning in continuous state-action spaces

L Schester, LE Ortiz - 2021 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Achieving the highest levels of automated driving will require effective solutions to the key
challenging maneuver of highway on-ramp merging. This paper extends our previous work …

Longitudinal position control for highway on-ramp merging: A multi-agent approach to automated driving

L Schester, LE Ortiz - 2019 IEEE Intelligent Transportation …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Highly automated driving requires effective handling of many complex scenarios. Here we
study a specific important task of highly automated driving: merging into traffic from a …

Deep multi-agent reinforcement learning for highway on-ramp merging in mixed traffic

D Chen, MR Hajidavalloo, Z Li, K Chen… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
On-ramp merging is a challenging task for autonomous vehicles (AVs), especially in mixed
traffic where AVs coexist with human-driven vehicles (HDVs). In this paper, we formulate the …

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 …

Autonomous highway merging in mixed traffic using reinforcement learning and motion predictive safety controller

Q Liu, F Dang, X Wang, X Ren - 2022 IEEE 25th International …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has a great potential for solving complex decision-
making problems in autonomous driving, especially in mixed-traffic scenarios where …

Novel decision-making strategy for connected and autonomous vehicles in highway on-ramp merging

Z el abidine Kherroubi, S Aknine… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
High-speed highway on-ramp merging is a significant challenge toward realizing fully
automated driving (level 4). Connected Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs), that combine …

Connected and automated vehicles in mixed-traffic: Learning human driver behavior for effective on-ramp merging

N Venkatesh, VA Le, A Dave… - 2023 62nd IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Highway merging scenarios featuring mixed traffic conditions pose significant modeling and
control challenges for connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) interacting with incoming …

Autonomous ramp merge maneuver based on reinforcement learning with continuous action space

P Wang, CY Chan - arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.09203, 2018 - arxiv.org
Ramp merging is a critical maneuver for road safety and traffic efficiency. Most of the current
automated driving systems developed by multiple automobile manufacturers and suppliers …

Reinforcement learning with iterative reasoning for merging in dense traffic

M Bouton, A Nakhaei, D Isele… - 2020 IEEE 23rd …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Maneuvering in dense traffic is a challenging task for autonomous vehicles because it
requires reasoning about the stochastic behaviors of many other participants. In addition, the …

A multi-agent deep reinforcement learning coordination framework for connected and automated vehicles at merging roadways

SKS Nakka, B Chalaki… - 2022 American Control …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The steady increase in the number of vehicles operating on the highways continues to
exacerbate congestion, accidents, energy consumption, and greenhouse gas emissions …