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YANG Lu, WANG Yiquan, LIU Jiaqi, DUAN Yulin, ZHANG Ronghui. An End-to-end Decision-making Method for Autonomous Driving Based on Twin Delayed Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient with Discrete[J]. Journal of Transport Information and Safety, 2022, 40(1): 144-152. doi: 10.3963/j.jssn.1674-4861.2022.01.017
Citation: YANG Lu, WANG Yiquan, LIU Jiaqi, DUAN Yulin, ZHANG Ronghui. An End-to-end Decision-making Method for Autonomous Driving Based on Twin Delayed Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient with Discrete[J]. Journal of Transport Information and Safety, 2022, 40(1): 144-152. doi: 10.3963/j.jssn.1674-4861.2022.01.017

An End-to-end Decision-making Method for Autonomous Driving Based on Twin Delayed Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient with Discrete

doi: 10.3963/j.jssn.1674-4861.2022.01.017
  • Received Date: 2021-08-13
    Available Online: 2022-03-31
  • There are issues for the decision support method for automated driving based on reinforcement learning, such as low learning efficiency and non-continuous actions. Therefore, an end-to-end decision-making method for autonomous driving is developed based on the Twin Delayed Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient with Discrete (TD3WD)algorithm, which can be used to fuse the information from different action spaces over a network. In the network of traditional Twin Delayed Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient(TD3)algorithm, an additional Q network that outputs discrete actions is added to assist exploration training. Weighted fusion of the output actions of TD3 network and additional Q network is performed. The fused actions interact with the environment, in order to fully explore the environment and enhance the efficiency of the environment exploration. When the Critic network is updated, the output of the attached network is merged into the target actions as noise to encourage the agent to explore the environment and obtain better action estimates. Instead of the original images, image feature obtained from the pre-trained network is used as the state input to reduce the computational cost in the training process. The proposed model is tested under a set of simulated autonomous driving scenarios generated by Carla simulation platform. The results show that the convergence speed of the proposed method is about 30% higher than that of traditional reinforcement learning algorithms like TD3 and Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient(DDPG)under the training scenarios. Under the testing scenarios, the proposed method shows better convergent performances and the average rate of lane-crossing and the change rate of steering angle are reduced by 74.4% and 56.4% respectively.

     

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