Vision-Based DRL Autonomous Driving Agent with Sim2Real Transfer

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Abstract

To achieve fully autonomous driving, vehicles must be capable of continuously performing various driving tasks, including lane keeping and car following, both of which are fundamental and well-studied driving ones. However, previous studies have mainly focused on individual tasks, and car following tasks have typically relied on complete leader-follower information to attain optimal performance. To address this limitation, we propose a vision-based deep reinforcement learning (DRL) agent that can simultaneously perform lane keeping and car following maneuvers. To evaluate the performance of our DRL agent, we compare it with a baseline controller and use various performance metrics for quantitative analysis. Furthermore, we conduct a real-world evaluation to demonstrate the Sim2Real transfer capability of the trained DRL agent. To the best of our knowledge, our vision-based car following and lane keeping agent with Sim2Real transfer capability is the first of its kind. We have made the codes and the videos of the simulation and real-world evaluation accessible online11Code and videos are available on: https://github.com/DailyL/Sim2Realautonomous_vehicle.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2023 IEEE 26th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, ITSC 2023
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages866-873
Number of pages8
ISBN (electronic)9798350399462
Publication statusPublished - 2023
Peer-reviewedYes

Publication series

SeriesIEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Proceedings, ITSC
ISSN2153-0009

Conference

Title26th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems
SubtitleTowards a New Era of Human-aware, Human-interactive, and Human-friendly ITS
Abbreviated titleITSC 2023
Conference number26
Duration24 - 28 September 2023
Website
LocationEuskalduna Conference Centre
CityBilbao
CountrySpain

External IDs

ORCID /0000-0002-8909-4861/work/171064875