Hierarchical Program-Triggered Reinforcement Learning Agents For Automated Driving

Autor: Harshit Soora, Pallab Dasgupta, Briti Gangopadhyay
Rok vydání: 2021
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DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2103.13861
Popis: Recent advances in Reinforcement Learning (RL) combined with Deep Learning (DL) have demonstrated impressive performance in complex tasks, including autonomous driving. The use of RL agents in autonomous driving leads to a smooth human-like driving experience, but the limited interpretability of Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) creates a verification and certification bottleneck. Instead of relying on RL agents to learn complex tasks, we propose HPRL - Hierarchical Program-triggered Reinforcement Learning, which uses a hierarchy consisting of a structured program along with multiple RL agents, each trained to perform a relatively simple task. The focus of verification shifts to the master program under simple guarantees from the RL agents, leading to a significantly more interpretable and verifiable implementation as compared to a complex RL agent. The evaluation of the framework is demonstrated on different driving tasks, and NHTSA precrash scenarios using CARLA, an open-source dynamic urban simulation environment.
Comment: The paper is under consideration in Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
Databáze: OpenAIRE