Autonomous Vehicle Lateral Control Using Deep Reinforcement Learning with MPC-PID Demonstration

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Auteurs principaux: Wu, Chengdong, Kirchner, Sven, Purschke, Nils, Knoll, Alois C.
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author Wu, Chengdong
Kirchner, Sven
Purschke, Nils
Knoll, Alois C.
author_facet Wu, Chengdong
Kirchner, Sven
Purschke, Nils
Knoll, Alois C.
contents The controller is one of the most important modules in the autonomous driving pipeline, ensuring the vehicle reaches its desired position. In this work, a reinforcement learning based lateral control approach, despite the imperfections in the vehicle models due to measurement errors and simplifications, is presented. Our approach ensures comfortable, efficient, and robust control performance considering the interface between controlling and other modules. The controller consists of the conventional Model Predictive Control (MPC)-PID part as the basis and the demonstrator, and the Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) part which leverages the online information from the MPC-PID part. The controller's performance is evaluated in CARLA using the ground truth of the waypoints as inputs. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the controller when vehicle information is incomplete, and the training of DRL can be stabilized with the demonstration part. These findings highlight the potential to reduce development and integration efforts for autonomous driving pipelines in the future.
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spellingShingle Autonomous Vehicle Lateral Control Using Deep Reinforcement Learning with MPC-PID Demonstration
Wu, Chengdong
Kirchner, Sven
Purschke, Nils
Knoll, Alois C.
Robotics
Machine Learning
Systems and Control
The controller is one of the most important modules in the autonomous driving pipeline, ensuring the vehicle reaches its desired position. In this work, a reinforcement learning based lateral control approach, despite the imperfections in the vehicle models due to measurement errors and simplifications, is presented. Our approach ensures comfortable, efficient, and robust control performance considering the interface between controlling and other modules. The controller consists of the conventional Model Predictive Control (MPC)-PID part as the basis and the demonstrator, and the Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) part which leverages the online information from the MPC-PID part. The controller's performance is evaluated in CARLA using the ground truth of the waypoints as inputs. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the controller when vehicle information is incomplete, and the training of DRL can be stabilized with the demonstration part. These findings highlight the potential to reduce development and integration efforts for autonomous driving pipelines in the future.
title Autonomous Vehicle Lateral Control Using Deep Reinforcement Learning with MPC-PID Demonstration
topic Robotics
Machine Learning
Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04040