Summary of Physics Enhanced Residual Policy Learning (perpl) For Safety Cruising in Mixed Traffic Platooning Under Actuator and Communication Delay, by Keke Long et al.
Physics Enhanced Residual Policy Learning (PERPL) for safety cruising in mixed traffic platooning under actuator and communication delay
by Keke Long, Haotian Shi, Yang Zhou, Xiaopeng Li
First submitted to arxiv on: 23 Sep 2024
Categories
- Main: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
- Secondary: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed Physics-Enhanced Residual Policy Learning (PERPL) framework combines the strengths of physics-based models and reinforcement learning methods to develop a family of RL-based controllers for vehicle control. The framework leverages the data efficiency and interpretability of physics-based models while adapting to changing environments through the learning-based Residual Policy. This approach is applied to decentralized control of mixed traffic platoons, demonstrating improved performance in scenarios with artificially extreme conditions and real preceding vehicle trajectories. The PERPL scheme achieves smaller headway errors and better oscillation dampening compared to linear models and RL alone. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper creates a new way to control vehicles using artificial intelligence. It combines two types of AI methods: ones that are based on physical rules and ones that learn from experience. This combination helps the controller adapt to changing situations while still being easy to understand and predictable. The researchers tested their method in different scenarios, including with and without real traffic conditions. Their results show that their approach works better than other methods in certain situations. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Reinforcement learning
