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 …

Social-aware decision algorithm for on-ramp merging based on level-k gaming

D Li, H Pan, Y Xiao, B Li, L Chen, H Li… - 2022 IEEE 18th …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
On-ramp merging is often associated with highly dynamic interactions between ego and
other vehicles, which are more challenging in dense traffic. Considering both the overall …

Multi-agent driving behavior prediction across different scenarios with self-supervised domain knowledge

H Ma, Y Sun, J Li, M Tomizuka - 2021 IEEE International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
How to make precise multi-agent trajectory prediction is a crucial problem in the context of
autonomous driving. It is significant to have the ability to predict surrounding road …

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 …

Building a lane merge coordination for connected vehicles using deep reinforcement learning

O Nassef, L Sequeira, E Salam… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a data-driven framework for trajectory recommendation in automated
and cooperative driving. The considered cooperative driving maneuver is lane-merge …

Cooperative merging speed planning: A vehicle-dynamics-free method

Z Wang, A Cook, Y Shao, G Xu… - 2023 IEEE Intelligent …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Various cooperative merging control strategies at on-ramp have been proposed in the last
decade. Approximated vehicle longitudinal motion models, eg, kinematics model, have been …

Joint multi-policy behavior estimation and receding-horizon trajectory planning for automated urban driving

B Zhou, W Schwarting, D Rus… - 2018 IEEE International …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
When driving in urban environments, an autonomous vehicle must account for the
interaction with other traffic participants. It must reason about their future behavior, how its …

Towards Robust On-Ramp Merging via Augmented Multimodal Reinforcement Learning

G Bagwe, J Li, X Yuan, L Zhang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.07307, 2022 - arxiv.org
Despite the success of AI-enabled onboard perception, on-ramp merging has been one of
the main challenges for autonomous driving. Due to limited sensing range of onboard …

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 …

Courtesy behavior for highly automated vehicles on highway interchanges

C Menéndez-Romero, M Sezer… - 2018 IEEE Intelligent …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
On the highway, human drivers continuously make decisions adapting their driving
behavior. In some of these, for example near highway ramp-entrances, they adjust intuitively …