Identify, estimate and bound the uncertainty of reinforcement learning for autonomous driving

W Zhou, Z Cao, N Deng, K Jiang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has emerged as a promising approach for developing
more intelligent autonomous vehicles (AVs). A typical DRL application on AVs is to train a …

Safe reinforcement learning with mixture density network: A case study in autonomous highway driving

A Baheri - arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.01698, 2020 - arxiv.org
This paper presents a safe reinforcement learning system for automated driving that benefits
from multimodal future trajectory predictions. We propose a safety system that consists of two …

A Real-World Reinforcement Learning Framework for Safe and Human-Like Tactical Decision-Making

MU Yavas, T Kumbasar, NK Ure - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Lane-change decision-making for vehicles is a challenging task for many reasons, including
traffic rules, safety, and the stochastic nature of driving. Because of its success in solving …

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 …

Uncertainty-aware decision-making for autonomous driving at uncontrolled intersections

X Tang, G Zhong, S Li, K Yang, K Shu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reinforcement learning (RL) has been widely used in the decision-making of autonomous
vehicles (AVs) in recent studies. However, existing RL methods generally find the optimal …

Addressing inherent uncertainty: Risk-sensitive behavior generation for automated driving using distributional reinforcement learning

J Bernhard, S Pollok, A Knoll - 2019 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For highly automated driving above SAE level 3, behavior generation algorithms must
reliably consider the inherent uncertainties of the traffic environment, eg arising from the …

Safe-state enhancement method for autonomous driving via direct hierarchical reinforcement learning

Z Gu, L Gao, H Ma, SE Li, S Zheng… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reinforcement learning (RL) has shown excellent performance in the sequential decision-
making problem, where safety in the form of state constraints is of great significance in the …

Towards robust decision-making for autonomous driving on highway

K Yang, X Tang, S Qiu, S Jin, Z Wei… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reinforcement learning (RL) methods are commonly regarded as effective solutions for
designing intelligent driving policies. Nonetheless, even if the RL policy is converged after …

Safe reinforcement learning for autonomous vehicles through parallel constrained policy optimization

L Wen, J Duan, SE Li, S Xu… - 2020 IEEE 23rd …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reinforcement learning (RL) is attracting increasing interests in autonomous driving due to
its potential to solve complex classification and control problems. However, existing RL …

Emergency Collision Avoidance Decision-making for Autonomous Vehicles: A Model-based Reinforcement Learning Approach

X He, C Lv, X Ji, Y Liu - 2022 6th CAA International Conference …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The challenging task of “intelligent vehicles” opens up a new frontier to enhancing traffic
safety. However, how to determine driving behavior timely and effectively is one of the most …