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 …

Stochastic pedestrian avoidance for autonomous vehicles using hybrid reinforcement learning

H Li, J Huang, Z Cao, D Yang, Z Zhong - Frontiers of Information …, 2023 - Springer
Ensuring the safety of pedestrians is essential and challenging when autonomous vehicles
are involved. Classical pedestrian avoidance strategies cannot handle uncertainty, and …

Long-tail prediction uncertainty aware trajectory planning for self-driving vehicles

W Zhou, Z Cao, Y Xu, N Deng, X Liu… - 2022 IEEE 25th …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A typical trajectory planner of self-driving vehicles commonly relies on predicting the future
behavior of surrounding obstacles. Recently, deep learning technology has been widely …

Road traffic law adaptive decision-making for self-driving vehicles

J Lin, W Zhou, H Wang, Z Cao, W Yu… - 2022 IEEE 25th …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Self-driving vehicles have their own intelligence to drive on open roads. However, vehicle
managers, eg, government or industrial companies, still need a way to tell these self-driving …

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 …

Solving combined economic and emission dispatch problems using reinforcement learning-based adaptive differential evolution algorithm

W Luo, X Yu, Y Wei - Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2023 - Elsevier
Nowadays, economic and environmental concerns in production have become increasingly
significant. To address these issues, the Combined Economic and Emission Dispatch …

Reliable autonomous driving environment model with unified state-extended boundary

X Jiao, J Chen, K Jiang, Y Wang, Z Cao… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
From the early stage of robotic applications to current autonomous driving technologies,
environment modeling has been acting as the middleware for connecting perception and …

Risk sensitive dead-end identification in safety-critical offline reinforcement learning

TW Killian, S Parbhoo, M Ghassemi - arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.05664, 2023 - arxiv.org
In safety-critical decision-making scenarios being able to identify worst-case outcomes, or
dead-ends is crucial in order to develop safe and reliable policies in practice. These …

Dynamically conservative self-driving planner for long-tail cases

W Zhou, Z Cao, N Deng, X Liu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Self-driving vehicles (SDVs) are becoming reality but still suffer from “long-tail” challenges
during natural driving: the SDVs will continually encounter rare, safety-critical cases that may …

A hybrid trajectory planning strategy for intelligent vehicles in on-road dynamic scenarios

M Wang, L Zhang, Z Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Efficient trajectory planning for intelligent vehicles in dynamic environments is a non-trivial
task due to the diversity and complexity of driving scenarios. It requires the planner to be …