HOPE: A Reinforcement Learning-based Hybrid Policy Path Planner for Diverse Parking Scenarios

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Main Authors: Jiang, Mingyang, Li, Yueyuan, Zhang, Songan, Chen, Siyuan, Wang, Chunxiang, Yang, Ming
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author Jiang, Mingyang
Li, Yueyuan
Zhang, Songan
Chen, Siyuan
Wang, Chunxiang
Yang, Ming
author_facet Jiang, Mingyang
Li, Yueyuan
Zhang, Songan
Chen, Siyuan
Wang, Chunxiang
Yang, Ming
contents Automated parking stands as a highly anticipated application of autonomous driving technology. However, existing path planning methodologies fall short of addressing this need due to their incapability to handle the diverse and complex parking scenarios in reality. While non-learning methods provide reliable planning results, they are vulnerable to intricate occasions, whereas learning-based ones are good at exploration but unstable in converging to feasible solutions. To leverage the strengths of both approaches, we introduce Hybrid pOlicy Path plannEr (HOPE). This novel solution integrates a reinforcement learning agent with Reeds-Shepp curves, enabling effective planning across diverse scenarios. HOPE guides the exploration of the reinforcement learning agent by applying an action mask mechanism and employs a transformer to integrate the perceived environmental information with the mask. To facilitate the training and evaluation of the proposed planner, we propose a criterion for categorizing the difficulty level of parking scenarios based on space and obstacle distribution. Experimental results demonstrate that our approach outperforms typical rule-based algorithms and traditional reinforcement learning methods, showing higher planning success rates and generalization across various scenarios. We also conduct real-world experiments to verify the practicability of HOPE. The code for our solution is openly available on https://github.com/jiamiya/HOPE.
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spellingShingle HOPE: A Reinforcement Learning-based Hybrid Policy Path Planner for Diverse Parking Scenarios
Jiang, Mingyang
Li, Yueyuan
Zhang, Songan
Chen, Siyuan
Wang, Chunxiang
Yang, Ming
Robotics
Machine Learning
Automated parking stands as a highly anticipated application of autonomous driving technology. However, existing path planning methodologies fall short of addressing this need due to their incapability to handle the diverse and complex parking scenarios in reality. While non-learning methods provide reliable planning results, they are vulnerable to intricate occasions, whereas learning-based ones are good at exploration but unstable in converging to feasible solutions. To leverage the strengths of both approaches, we introduce Hybrid pOlicy Path plannEr (HOPE). This novel solution integrates a reinforcement learning agent with Reeds-Shepp curves, enabling effective planning across diverse scenarios. HOPE guides the exploration of the reinforcement learning agent by applying an action mask mechanism and employs a transformer to integrate the perceived environmental information with the mask. To facilitate the training and evaluation of the proposed planner, we propose a criterion for categorizing the difficulty level of parking scenarios based on space and obstacle distribution. Experimental results demonstrate that our approach outperforms typical rule-based algorithms and traditional reinforcement learning methods, showing higher planning success rates and generalization across various scenarios. We also conduct real-world experiments to verify the practicability of HOPE. The code for our solution is openly available on https://github.com/jiamiya/HOPE.
title HOPE: A Reinforcement Learning-based Hybrid Policy Path Planner for Diverse Parking Scenarios
topic Robotics
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.20579