Navigating urban environments represents a complex task for automated vehicles. They must reach their goal safely and efficiently while considering a multitude of traffic participants. We propose a modular decision making algorithm to autonomously navigate intersections, addressing challenges of existing rule-based and reinforcement learning (RL) approaches. We first present a safe RL algorithm relying on a model-checker to ensure safety guarantees. To make the decision strategy robust to perception errors and occlusions, we introduce a belief update technique using a learning based approach. Finally, we use a scene decomposition approach to scale our algorithm to environments with multiple traffic participants. We empirically demonstrate that our algorithm outperforms rule-based methods and reinforcement learning techniques on a complex intersection scenario.
Safe Reinforcement Learning with Scene Decomposition for Navigating Complex Urban Environments
2019 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV) ; 1469-1476
2019-06-01
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SAFE REINFORCEMENT LEARNING WITH SCENE DECOMPOSITION FOR NAVIGATING COMPLEX URBAN ENVIRONMENTS
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