Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning for Tactical Decision Making for Trucks in Highway Traffic
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| author | Pathare, Deepthi Laine, Leo Chehreghani, Morteza Haghir |
| author_facet | Pathare, Deepthi Laine, Leo Chehreghani, Morteza Haghir |
| contents | Balancing safety, efficiency, and operational costs in highway driving poses a challenging decision-making problem for heavy-duty vehicles. A central difficulty is that conventional scalar reward formulations, obtained by aggregating these competing objectives, often obscure the structure of their trade-offs. We present a Proximal Policy Optimization based multi-objective reinforcement learning framework that learns a set of policies explicitly representing these trade-offs and evaluates it on a scalable simulation platform for tactical decision making in trucks. The proposed approach learns a set of Pareto-optimal policies that capture the trade-offs among three conflicting objectives: safety, quantified in terms of collisions and successful completion; energy efficiency and time efficiency, quantified using energy cost and driver cost, respectively. The resulting Pareto frontier is smooth and interpretable, enabling flexibility in choosing driving behavior along different conflicting objectives. This framework allows seamless transitions between different driving policies without retraining, yielding a robust and adaptive decision-making strategy for autonomous trucking applications. |
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| spellingShingle | Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning for Tactical Decision Making for Trucks in Highway Traffic Pathare, Deepthi Laine, Leo Chehreghani, Morteza Haghir Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Systems and Control Balancing safety, efficiency, and operational costs in highway driving poses a challenging decision-making problem for heavy-duty vehicles. A central difficulty is that conventional scalar reward formulations, obtained by aggregating these competing objectives, often obscure the structure of their trade-offs. We present a Proximal Policy Optimization based multi-objective reinforcement learning framework that learns a set of policies explicitly representing these trade-offs and evaluates it on a scalable simulation platform for tactical decision making in trucks. The proposed approach learns a set of Pareto-optimal policies that capture the trade-offs among three conflicting objectives: safety, quantified in terms of collisions and successful completion; energy efficiency and time efficiency, quantified using energy cost and driver cost, respectively. The resulting Pareto frontier is smooth and interpretable, enabling flexibility in choosing driving behavior along different conflicting objectives. This framework allows seamless transitions between different driving policies without retraining, yielding a robust and adaptive decision-making strategy for autonomous trucking applications. |
| title | Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning for Tactical Decision Making for Trucks in Highway Traffic |
| topic | Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Systems and Control |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.18783 |