Enhancing High-Speed Cruising Performance of Autonomous Vehicles Through Integrated Deep Reinforcement Learning Framework
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Abstract
High-speed cruising scenarios with mixed traffic greatly challenge the road safety of autonomous vehicles (AVs). Unlike existing works that only look at fundamental modules in isolation, this work enhances AV safety in mixed-traffic high-speed cruising scenarios by proposing an integrated framework that synthesizes three fundamental modules, i.e., behavioral decision-making, path-planning, and motion-control modules. Considering that the integrated framework would increase the system complexity, a bootstrapped deep Q-Network (DQN) is employed to enhance the deep exploration of the reinforcement learning method and achieve adaptive decision making of AVs. Moreover, to make AV behavior understandable by surrounding HDVs to prevent unexpected operations caused by misinterpretations, we derive an inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) approach to learn the reward function of skilled drivers for the path planning of lane-changing maneuvers. Such a design enables AVs to achieve a human-like tradeoff between multi-performance requirements. Simulations demonstrate that the proposed integrated framework can guide AVs to take safe actions while guaranteeing high-speed cruising performance.
Details
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 835-848 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Publication status | Published - 2025 |
| Peer-reviewed | Yes |
| Externally published | Yes |
External IDs
| ORCID | /0000-0003-4737-5304/work/182336600 |
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Keywords
- Autonomous vehicle, deep reinforcement learning, high-speed cruising, model predictive control