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 …

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 …

Formulation of deep reinforcement learning architecture toward autonomous driving for on-ramp merge

P Wang, CY Chan - 2017 IEEE 20th International Conference …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multiple automakers have in development or in production automated driving systems (ADS)
that offer freeway-pilot functions. This type of ADS is typically limited to restricted-access …

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 …

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 …

A deep reinforcement learning-based approach for autonomous driving in highway on-ramp merge

H Wang, S Yuan, M Guo, X Li… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
In this paper, we focus on the problem of highway merge via parallel-type on-ramp for
autonomous vehicles (AVs) in a decentralized non-cooperative way. This problem is …

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 …

Nash double Q-based multi-agent deep reinforcement learning for interactive merging strategy in mixed traffic

L Li, W Zhao, C Wang, A Fotouhi, X Liu - Expert Systems with Applications, 2024 - Elsevier
The interaction between ramp and mainline vehicles plays a crucial role in merging areas,
especially in the mixed-traffic environment. The driving behaviours of human drivers are …

Reinforcement learning with probabilistically safe control barrier functions for ramp merging

S Udatha, Y Lyu, J Dolan - 2023 IEEE International Conference …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Prior work has looked at applying reinforcement learning (RL) approaches to autonomous
driving scenarios, but the safety of the algorithm is often compromised due to instability or …

High-level decisions from a safe maneuver catalog with reinforcement learning for safe and cooperative automated merging

D Kamran, Y Ren, M Lauer - 2021 IEEE International Intelligent …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reinforcement learning (RL) has recently been used for solving challenging decision-
making problems in the context of automated driving. However, one of the main drawbacks …