Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS
Volume 23, Issue 12, Pages 24791-24804Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2022.3207872
Keywords
Behavioral sciences; Vehicles; Safety; Games; Training; Navigation; Decision making; Cooperative driving; social navigation; mixed-autonomy traffic; multi-agent reinforcement learning
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- National Science Foundation [CNS-1932037, 1953032, 1952920]
- Directorate For Engineering [1952920] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Div Of Electrical, Commun & Cyber Sys [1952920] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Div Of Electrical, Commun & Cyber Sys
- Directorate For Engineering [1953032] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Despite limitations in cooperating and coordinating with human-driven vehicles, autonomous vehicles can work together with humans through altruistic decision-making and multi-agent reinforcement learning, leading to improved traffic flow and safety.
Despite the advances in the autonomous driving domain, autonomous vehicles (AVs) are still inefficient and limited in terms of cooperating with each other or coordinating with vehicles operated by humans. A group of autonomous and human-driven vehicles (HVs) which work together to optimize an altruistic social utility can co-exist seamlessly and assure safety and efficiency on the road. Achieving this mission without explicit coordination among agents is challenging, mainly due to the difficulty of predicting the behavior of humans with heterogeneous preferences in mixed-autonomy environments. Formally, we model an AV's maneuver planning in mixed-autonomy traffic as a partially-observable stochastic game and attempt to derive optimal policies that lead to socially-desirable outcomes using a multi-agent reinforcement learning framework (MARL), and propose a semi-sequential multi-agent training and policy dissemination algorithm for our MARL problem. We introduce a quantitative representation of the AVs' social preferences and design a distributed reward structure that induces altruism into their decision-making process. Altruistic AVs are able to form alliances, guide the traffic, and affect the behavior of the HVs to handle competitive driving scenarios. We compare egoistic AVs to our altruistic autonomous agents in a highway merging setting and demonstrate the emerging behaviors that lead to improvement in the number of successful merges and the overall traffic flow and safety.
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