Verification and validation methods for decision-making and planning of automated vehicles: A review

Y Ma, C Sun, J Chen, D Cao… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Verification and validation (V&V) hold a significant position in the research and development
of automated vehicles (AVs). Current literature indicates that different V&V techniques have …

A survey on trajectory-prediction methods for autonomous driving

Y Huang, J Du, Z Yang, Z Zhou… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In order to drive safely in a dynamic environment, autonomous vehicles should be able to
predict the future states of traffic participants nearby, especially surrounding vehicles, similar …

Artificial empathy in marketing interactions: Bridging the human-AI gap in affective and social customer experience

Y Liu-Thompkins, S Okazaki, H Li - Journal of the Academy of Marketing …, 2022 - Springer
Artificial intelligence (AI) continues to transform firm-customer interactions. However, current
AI marketing agents are often perceived as cold and uncaring and can be poor substitutes …

Machine learning for autonomous vehicle's trajectory prediction: A comprehensive survey, challenges, and future research directions

V Bharilya, N Kumar - Vehicular Communications, 2024 - Elsevier
The significant contribution of human errors, accounting for approximately 94%(with a
margin of±2.2%), to road crashes leading to casualties, vehicle damages, and safety …

Driving behavior modeling using naturalistic human driving data with inverse reinforcement learning

Z Huang, J Wu, C Lv - IEEE transactions on intelligent …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Driving behavior modeling is of great importance for designing safe, smart, and
personalized autonomous driving systems. In this paper, an internal reward function-based …

Highway decision-making and motion planning for autonomous driving via soft actor-critic

X Tang, B Huang, T Liu, X Lin - IEEE Transactions on Vehicular …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this study, a decision-making and motion planning controller with continuous action space
is constructed in the highway driving scenario based on deep reinforcement learning. In the …

Interaction-aware trajectory prediction and planning for autonomous vehicles in forced merge scenarios

K Liu, N Li, HE Tseng, I Kolmanovsky… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Merging is, in general, a challenging task for both human drivers and autonomous vehicles,
especially in dense traffic, because the merging vehicle typically needs to interact with other …

Safety assurances for human-robot interaction via confidence-aware game-theoretic human models

R Tian, L Sun, A Bajcsy, M Tomizuka… - … on Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An outstanding challenge with safety methods for human-robot interaction is reducing their
conservatism while maintaining robustness to variations in human behavior. In this work, we …

Scalable inverse reinforcement learning through multifidelity Bayesian optimization

M Imani, SF Ghoreishi - IEEE transactions on neural networks …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Data in many practical problems are acquired according to decisions or actions made by
users or experts to achieve specific goals. For instance, policies in the mind of biologists …

Off-policy inverse Q-learning for discrete-time antagonistic unknown systems

B Lian, W Xue, Y **e, FL Lewis, A Davoudi - Automatica, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a data-driven model-free inverse reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm
to reconstruct the unknown cost function of the demonstrated discrete-time (DT) dynamical …