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

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Auteurs principaux: Valiente, Rodolfo, Toghi, Behrad, Razzaghpour, Mahdi, Pedarsani, Ramtin, Fallah, Yaser P.
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author Valiente, Rodolfo
Toghi, Behrad
Razzaghpour, Mahdi
Pedarsani, Ramtin
Fallah, Yaser P.
author_facet Valiente, Rodolfo
Toghi, Behrad
Razzaghpour, Mahdi
Pedarsani, Ramtin
Fallah, Yaser P.
contents 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 social awareness and their ability to engage in complex social interactions in a socially accepted manner. However, AVs are still inefficient in terms of cooperating with HVs and struggle to understand and adapt to human behavior, which is particularly challenging in mixed autonomy. In a road shared by AVs and HVs, the social preferences or individual traits of HVs are unknown to the AVs and different from AVs, which are expected to follow a policy, HVs are particularly difficult to forecast since they do not necessarily follow a stationary policy. To address these challenges, we frame the mixed-autonomy problem as a multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) problem and propose an approach that allows AVs to learn the decision-making of HVs implicitly from experience, account for all vehicles' interests, and safely adapt to other traffic situations. In contrast with existing works, we quantify AVs' social preferences and propose a distributed reward structure that introduces altruism into their decision-making process, allowing the altruistic AVs to learn to establish coalitions and influence the behavior of HVs.
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spellingShingle Learning-based social coordination to improve safety and robustness of cooperative autonomous vehicles in mixed traffic
Valiente, Rodolfo
Toghi, Behrad
Razzaghpour, Mahdi
Pedarsani, Ramtin
Fallah, Yaser P.
Robotics
Machine Learning
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 social awareness and their ability to engage in complex social interactions in a socially accepted manner. However, AVs are still inefficient in terms of cooperating with HVs and struggle to understand and adapt to human behavior, which is particularly challenging in mixed autonomy. In a road shared by AVs and HVs, the social preferences or individual traits of HVs are unknown to the AVs and different from AVs, which are expected to follow a policy, HVs are particularly difficult to forecast since they do not necessarily follow a stationary policy. To address these challenges, we frame the mixed-autonomy problem as a multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) problem and propose an approach that allows AVs to learn the decision-making of HVs implicitly from experience, account for all vehicles' interests, and safely adapt to other traffic situations. In contrast with existing works, we quantify AVs' social preferences and propose a distributed reward structure that introduces altruism into their decision-making process, allowing the altruistic AVs to learn to establish coalitions and influence the behavior of HVs.
title Learning-based social coordination to improve safety and robustness of cooperative autonomous vehicles in mixed traffic
topic Robotics
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.11963