Altruistic maneuver planning for cooperative autonomous vehicles using multi-agent advantage actor-critic

B Toghi, R Valiente, D Sadigh, R Pedarsani… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
With the adoption of autonomous vehicles on our roads, we will witness a mixed-autonomy
environment where autonomous and human-driven vehicles must learn to co-exist by …

Social coordination and altruism in autonomous driving

B Toghi, R Valiente, D Sadigh… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Despite the advances in the autonomous driving domain, autonomous vehicles (AVs) are
still inefficient and limited in terms of cooperating with each other or coordinating with …

Robustness and adaptability of reinforcement learning-based cooperative autonomous driving in mixed-autonomy traffic

R Valiente, B Toghi, R Pedarsani… - IEEE Open Journal of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Building autonomous vehicles (AVs) is a complex problem, but enabling them to operate in
the real world where they will be surrounded by human-driven vehicles (HVs) is extremely …

Learning-based social coordination to improve safety and robustness of cooperative autonomous vehicles in mixed traffic

R Valiente, B Toghi, M Razzaghpour… - Machine Learning and …, 2023 - Springer
It is expected that autonomous vehicles (AVs) and heterogeneous human-driven vehicles
(HVs) will coexist on the same road. The safety and reliability of AVs will depend on their …

Cooperative autonomous vehicles that sympathize with human drivers

B Toghi, R Valiente, D Sadigh… - 2021 IEEE/RSJ …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Widespread adoption of autonomous vehicles will not become a reality until solutions are
developed that enable these intelligent agents to co-exist with humans. This includes safely …

Prediction-Aware and Reinforcement Learning-Based Altruistic Cooperative Driving

R Valiente, M Razzaghpour, B Toghi… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous vehicle (AV) navigation in the presence of Human-driven vehicles (HVs) is
challenging, as HVs continuously update their policies in response to AVs. In order to …

[PDF][PDF] Centralized conflict-free cooperation for connected and automated vehicles at intersections by proximal policy optimization

Y Guan, Y Ren, SE Li, Q Sun, L Luo… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 - researchgate.net
Connected vehicles will change the modes of future transportation management and
organization, especially at intersections. There are mainly two categories coordination …

Proposing cooperative maneuvers among automated vehicles using machine learning

B Häfner, J Jiru, H Schepker, GA Schmitt… - Proceedings of the 24th …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Cooperative maneuvers will enable automated vehicles to optimize traffic flow and increase
safety via vehicle-to-vehicle communication. Different approaches and protocols exist, but …

Learning how to dynamically route autonomous vehicles on shared roads

DA Lazar, E Bıyık, D Sadigh, R Pedarsani - Transportation research part C …, 2021 - Elsevier
Road congestion induces significant costs across the world, and road network disturbances,
such as traffic accidents, can cause highly congested traffic patterns. If a planner had control …

Semi-cooperative control for autonomous emergency vehicles

N Buckman, W Schwarting… - 2021 IEEE/RSJ …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous control of an emergency vehicle will save lives through faster transport and
shorter response. Towards this goal, it must overcome the challenge of inter-acting with …