학술논문

Human Knowledge Enhanced Reinforcement Learning for Mandatory Lane-Change of Autonomous Vehicles in Congested Traffic
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles IEEE Trans. Intell. Veh. Intelligent Vehicles, IEEE Transactions on. 9(2):3509-3519 Feb, 2024
Subject
Transportation
Robotics and Control Systems
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Training
Merging
Task analysis
Behavioral sciences
Safety
Trajectory
Reinforcement learning
Human in the loop
mandatory lane change
reinforcement learning
Language
ISSN
2379-8858
2379-8904
Abstract
Mandatory lane-change scenarios are often challenging for autonomous vehicles in complex environments. In this paper, a human-knowledge-enhanced reinforcement learning (RL) method for lane-change decision making is proposed, where the human intelligence is integrated with RL algorithm in a multiple manner. First, this paper constructs a complex ramp-off scenario with congested traffic flow to help agents master lane-change skills. On the basis of the Twin Delayed Deep Deterministic policy gradient (TD3) algorithm, the human prior experience is encoded into reward function and safety constraints offline, and the online guidance of experts is also introduced into the framework, which can limit the unsafe exploration during the training process and provide demonstration in complex scenarios. The experimental results indicate that our method can effectively improve the training efficiency and outperform typical RL method and expert drivers, without specific requirements on the expertise. The proposed method can enhance the learning ability of RL based driving strategies.