Generalized Single-Vehicle-Based Graph Reinforcement Learning for Decision-Making in Autonomous Driving.

Journal: Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
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Abstract

In the autonomous driving process, the decision-making system is mainly used to provide macro-control instructions based on the information captured by the sensing system. Learning-based algorithms have apparent advantages in information processing and understanding for an increasingly complex driving environment. To incorporate the interactive information between agents in the environment into the decision-making process, this paper proposes a generalized single-vehicle-based graph neural network reinforcement learning algorithm (SGRL algorithm). The SGRL algorithm introduces graph convolution into the traditional deep neural network (DQN) algorithm, adopts the training method for a single agent, designs a more explicit incentive reward function, and significantly improves the dimension of the action space. The SGRL algorithm is compared with the traditional DQN algorithm (NGRL) and the multi-agent training algorithm (MGRL) in the highway ramp scenario. Results show that the SGRL algorithm has outstanding advantages in network convergence, decision-making effect, and training efficiency.

Authors

  • Fan Yang
    School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou, China.
  • Xueyuan Li
    School of Mechanical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China.
  • Qi Liu
    National Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine Constitution and Preventive Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China.
  • Zirui Li
    Tianjin Key Laboratory of Electronic Materials Devices, School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300401, China.
  • Xin Gao
    Department of Computer Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey, USA.