Title
A new reinforcement learning vehicle control architecture for vision-based road following
Abstract
A new dynamic control architecture based on reinforcement learning (RL) has been developed and applied to the problem of high-speed road following of high-curvature roads. Through RL, the control system indirectly learns the vehicle-road interaction dynamics, knowledge which is essential to stay on the road in high-speed road tracking. First, computer simulation has been carried out in order to test stability and performance of the proposed RL controller before actual use. The proposed controller exhibited a good road tracking performance, especially on high-curvature roads. Then, the actual autonomous driving experiments successfully verified the control performance on campus roads in which there were shadows from the trees, noisy and/or broken lane markings, different road curvatures, and also different times of the day reflecting a range of lighting conditions. The proposed three-stage image processing algorithm and the use of all six strips of edges have been capable of handling most of the uncertainties arising from the nonideal road conditions
Year
DOI
Venue
2000
10.1109/25.845116
IEEE T. Vehicular Technology
Keywords
Field
DocType
nonideal road conditions,control system,vehicle-road interaction dynamics,neural networks,road vehicles,reinforcement learning,reinforcement learning vehicle control architecture,broken lane markings,learning (artificial intelligence),traffic engineering computing,autonomous driving experiments,shadows,vehicle dynamics.,index terms—lateral control,traffic control,three-stage image processing algorithm,high-speed road following,vision-based road following,computer vision,road following,high-speed road tracking,road traffic,lighting conditions,computer simulation,campus roads,neural nets,high-curvature roads,different road curvatures,vehicle dynamics,stability,control systems,indexing terms,computer architecture,artificial intelligence,neural network,learning artificial intelligence,image processing,testing
Control theory,Architecture,Simulation,Computer science,Image processing,STRIPS,Vehicle dynamics,Control system,Artificial neural network,Reinforcement learning
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
49
3
0018-9545
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
20
1.41
13
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Se-Young Oh144263.23
Jeong-Hoon Lee229116.06
Doo-Hyun Choi36512.25