Robust decision making for autonomous vehicles at highway on-ramps: A constrained adversarial reinforcement learning approach

X He, B Lou, H Yang, C Lv - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reinforcement learning has demonstrated its potential in a series of challenging domains.
However, many real-world decision making tasks involve unpredictable environmental …

Toward trustworthy decision-making for autonomous vehicles: A robust reinforcement learning approach with safety guarantees

X He, W Huang, C Lv - Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
While autonomous vehicles are vital components of intelligent transportation systems,
ensuring the trustworthiness of decision-making remains a substantial challenge in realizing …

Trajectory planning for autonomous vehicles using hierarchical reinforcement learning

KB Naveed, Z Qiao, JM Dolan - 2021 IEEE International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Planning safe trajectories under uncertain and dynamic conditions makes the autonomous
driving problem significantly complex. Current heuristic-based algorithms such as the slot …

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 …

Integrated eco-driving automation of intelligent vehicles in multi-lane scenario via model-accelerated reinforcement learning

Z Gu, Y Yin, SE Li, J Duan, F Zhang, S Zheng… - … Research Part C …, 2022 - Elsevier
The development of intelligent driving technologies is expected to have the potential in
energy economics. Some reported studies mainly focused on the economical driving …

A safe hierarchical planning framework for complex driving scenarios based on reinforcement learning

J Li, L Sun, J Chen, M Tomizuka… - 2021 IEEE International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous vehicles need to handle various traffic conditions and make safe and efficient
decisions and maneuvers. However, on the one hand, a single optimization/sampling-based …

DRL-GAT-SA: Deep reinforcement learning for autonomous driving planning based on graph attention networks and simplex architecture

Y Peng, G Tan, H Si, J Li - Journal of Systems Architecture, 2022 - Elsevier
Self-driving cars need to make decisions while sharing the road with human drivers whose
behavior is uncertain. However, the presence of uncertainty leads to a trade-off between two …

Lexicographic actor-critic deep reinforcement learning for urban autonomous driving

H Zhang, Y Lin, S Han, K Lv - IEEE Transactions on Vehicular …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Urban autonomous driving is a difficult task because of its complex road scenarios and the
interaction between multiple vehicles. Autonomous vehicles need to balance multiple …

A controllable agent by subgoals in path planning using goal-conditioned reinforcement learning

GT Lee, K Kim - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The aim of path planning is to search for a path from the starting point to the goal. Numerous
studies, however, have dealt with a single predefined goal. That is, an agent who has …

Research on path planning and path tracking control of autonomous vehicles based on improved APF and SMC

Y Zhang, K Liu, F Gao, F Zhao - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
Path planning and tracking control is an essential part of autonomous vehicle research. In
terms of path planning, the artificial potential field (APF) algorithm has attracted much …