Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning for Safe Autonomous Driving with RICS-Assisted MEC

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Autori principali: Zhang, Xueyao, Yang, Bo, Cao, Xuelin, Yu, Zhiwen, Alexandropoulos, George C., Zhang, Yan, Debbah, Merouane, Yuen, Chau
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Pubblicazione: 2025
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author Zhang, Xueyao
Yang, Bo
Cao, Xuelin
Yu, Zhiwen
Alexandropoulos, George C.
Zhang, Yan
Debbah, Merouane
Yuen, Chau
author_facet Zhang, Xueyao
Yang, Bo
Cao, Xuelin
Yu, Zhiwen
Alexandropoulos, George C.
Zhang, Yan
Debbah, Merouane
Yuen, Chau
contents Environment sensing and fusion via onboard sensors are envisioned to be widely applied in future autonomous driving networks. This paper considers a vehicular system with multiple self-driving vehicles that is assisted by multi-access edge computing (MEC), where image data collected by the sensors is offloaded from cellular vehicles to the MEC server using vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) links. Sensory data can also be shared among surrounding vehicles via vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication links. To improve spectrum utilization, the V2V links may reuse the same frequency spectrum with V2I links, which may cause severe interference. To tackle this issue, we leverage reconfigurable intelligent computational surfaces (RICSs) to jointly enable V2I reflective links and mitigate interference appearing at the V2V links. Considering the limitations of traditional algorithms in addressing this problem, such as the assumption for quasi-static channel state information, which restricts their ability to adapt to dynamic environmental changes and leads to poor performance under frequently varying channel conditions, in this paper, we formulate the problem at hand as a Markov game. Our novel formulation is applied to time-varying channels subject to multi-user interference and introduces a collaborative learning mechanism among users. The considered optimization problem is solved via a driving safety-enabled multi-agent deep reinforcement learning (DS-MADRL) approach that capitalizes on the RICS presence. Our extensive numerical investigations showcase that the proposed reinforcement learning approach achieves faster convergence and significant enhancements in both data rate and driving safety, as compared to various state-of-the-art benchmarks.
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spellingShingle Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning for Safe Autonomous Driving with RICS-Assisted MEC
Zhang, Xueyao
Yang, Bo
Cao, Xuelin
Yu, Zhiwen
Alexandropoulos, George C.
Zhang, Yan
Debbah, Merouane
Yuen, Chau
Machine Learning
Environment sensing and fusion via onboard sensors are envisioned to be widely applied in future autonomous driving networks. This paper considers a vehicular system with multiple self-driving vehicles that is assisted by multi-access edge computing (MEC), where image data collected by the sensors is offloaded from cellular vehicles to the MEC server using vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) links. Sensory data can also be shared among surrounding vehicles via vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication links. To improve spectrum utilization, the V2V links may reuse the same frequency spectrum with V2I links, which may cause severe interference. To tackle this issue, we leverage reconfigurable intelligent computational surfaces (RICSs) to jointly enable V2I reflective links and mitigate interference appearing at the V2V links. Considering the limitations of traditional algorithms in addressing this problem, such as the assumption for quasi-static channel state information, which restricts their ability to adapt to dynamic environmental changes and leads to poor performance under frequently varying channel conditions, in this paper, we formulate the problem at hand as a Markov game. Our novel formulation is applied to time-varying channels subject to multi-user interference and introduces a collaborative learning mechanism among users. The considered optimization problem is solved via a driving safety-enabled multi-agent deep reinforcement learning (DS-MADRL) approach that capitalizes on the RICS presence. Our extensive numerical investigations showcase that the proposed reinforcement learning approach achieves faster convergence and significant enhancements in both data rate and driving safety, as compared to various state-of-the-art benchmarks.
title Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning for Safe Autonomous Driving with RICS-Assisted MEC
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.19418