知識とデータの二重駆動による強化学習を用いた混在交通下の自動運転車制御
Knowledge-Data-Dual-Driven Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Vehicle Control in Mixed Traffic
混在交通下での自動運転車の意思決定問題に対し、知識とデータの二重駆動による強化学習(KDDRL)を提案し、意図認識と安全な探索を実現した。
著者: Jie Fang, Wei Zheng, Mengyun Xu, Eui-Jin Kim
分類: cs.RO, eess.SY
原文アブストラクト
In mixed traffic, decision-making for autonomous vehicles (AVs) confronts three interrelated challenges. First, physics-based priors incorporated into reinforcement learning (RL) models fail to capture latent interactive vehicle intentions and diverse driver behaviors, limiting the proactive reasoning capabilities. Second, abrupt maneuvers by surrounding vehicles cause non-stationarity, leaving long-tail safety events under-explored. Third, hybrid action spaces destabilize unified RL training due to the different temporal scales of continuous car-following and discrete lane-changing maneuvers. To address these issues, we propose Knowledge-Data Dual-driven Reinforcement Learning (KDDRL). First, a conditional deep generative model synthesizes intention-aware future trajectories, converting passive perception into proactive predictive states. Second, a knowledge-data dual-driven paradigm operates on these predictive states, fusing probabilistic data-driven insights with physical constraints to guide safe exploration through safety-critical scenarios. Third, a coupling module compresses both intention-aware trajectories and physical constraints into compact shared embeddings. This unified representation enables asynchronous multi-timescale optimization of continuous car-following and discrete lane-changing while preserving mutual information. Evaluations on dataset-calibrated simulations demonstrate that KDDRL effectively handles intention uncertainty, accelerates training convergence, and outperforms conventional baseline methods in terms of safety, efficiency, and comfort.