Decision making of autonomous vehicles in lane change scenarios: Deep reinforcement learning approaches with risk awareness

G Li, Y Yang, S Li, X Qu, N Lyu, SE Li - Transportation research part C …, 2022 - Elsevier
Driving safety is the most important element that needs to be considered for autonomous
vehicles (AVs). To ensure driving safety, we proposed a lane change decision-making …

Risk assessment based collision avoidance decision-making for autonomous vehicles in multi-scenarios

G Li, Y Yang, T Zhang, X Qu, D Cao, B Cheng… - … research part C: emerging …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, we proposed a new risk assessment based decision-making algorithm to
guarantee collision avoidance in multi-scenarios for autonomous vehicles. A probabilistic …

Multi-vehicle interaction safety of connected automated vehicles in merging area: A real-time risk assessment approach

J Zhu, Y Ma, Y Lou - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2022 - Elsevier
The risky lane-changing manoeuvre of vehicles often occurs at expressway entrances,
which would result in a high crash risk in the freeway system and significantly impact its …

Enhancing intersection safety in autonomous traffic: a grid-based approach with risk quantification

W Wu, S Chen, M Xiong, L Xing - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2024 - Elsevier
Existing studies on autonomous intersection management (AIM) primarily focus on traffic
efficiency, often overlooking the overall intersection safety, where conflict separation is …

Standby-based deadlock avoidance method for multi-agent pickup and delivery tasks

T Yamauchi, Y Miyashita, T Sugawara - arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.06014, 2022 - arxiv.org
The multi-agent pickup and delivery (MAPD) problem, in which multiple agents iteratively
carry materials without collisions, has received significant attention. However, many …

A collision avoidance model for on-ramp merging of autonomous vehicles

MS Sheikh, Y Peng - KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering, 2023 - Springer
Connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) have the ability to enhance traffic flow and
road safety by significantly reducing human error. Although some collision risks may be …

Distributed control for a robotic swarm to pass through a curve virtual tube

Q Quan, Y Gao, C Bai - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2023 - Elsevier
To guide a robotic swarm in a cluttered environment, a curve virtual tube is designed in this
paper. There is no obstacle within the curve virtual tube, and the area inside can be seen as …

Verifiable obstacle detection

A Bansal, H Kim, S Yu, B Li… - 2022 IEEE 33rd …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Perception of obstacles remains a critical safety concern for autonomous vehicles. Real-
world collisions have shown that the autonomy faults leading to fatal collisions originate from …

Perception simplex: Verifiable collision avoidance in autonomous vehicles amidst obstacle detection faults

A Bansal, H Kim, S Yu, B Li… - Software Testing …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Advances in deep learning have revolutionized cyber‐physical applications, including the
development of autonomous vehicles. However, real‐world collisions involving autonomous …

Stepwise cooperative trajectory planning for multiple BUVs based on temporal–spatial Bezier curves

R Wang, T Jiang, G Bai, Y Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Biomimetic underwater vehicles (BUVs) are important instrumentation in applications such
as water quality monitoring and underwater detection. In this article, we study the …