Outracing champion Gran Turismo drivers with deep reinforcement learning

PR Wurman, S Barrett, K Kawamoto, J MacGlashan… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Many potential applications of artificial intelligence involve making real-time decisions in
physical systems while interacting with humans. Automobile racing represents an extreme …

Autonomous vehicles on the edge: A survey on autonomous vehicle racing

J Betz, H Zheng, A Liniger, U Rosolia… - IEEE Open Journal …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The rising popularity of self-driving cars has led to the emergence of a new research field in
recent years: Autonomous racing. Researchers are develo** software and hardware for …

A survey on safety-critical driving scenario generation—a methodological perspective

W Ding, C Xu, M Arief, H Lin, B Li… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous driving systems have witnessed significant development during the past years
thanks to the advance in machine learning-enabled sensing and decision-making …

Autonomous overtaking in gran turismo sport using curriculum reinforcement learning

Y Song, HC Lin, E Kaufmann, P Dürr… - … on robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Professional race-car drivers can execute extreme overtaking maneuvers. However, existing
algorithms for autonomous overtaking either rely on simplified assumptions about the …

Indy autonomous challenge-autonomous race cars at the handling limits

A Wischnewski, M Geisslinger, J Betz, T Betz… - … 2021: chassis. tech plus, 2022 - Springer
Motorsport has always been an enabler for technological advancement, and the same
applies to the autonomous driving industry. The team TUM Autonomous Motorsports will …

Scalable multi-agent model-based reinforcement learning

V Egorov, A Shpilman - arxiv preprint arxiv:2205.15023, 2022 - arxiv.org
Recent Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) literature has been largely focused on
Centralized Training with Decentralized Execution (CTDE) paradigm. CTDE has been a …

Latent imagination facilitates zero-shot transfer in autonomous racing

A Brunnbauer, L Berducci… - … on Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
World models learn behaviors in a latent imagination space to enhance the sample-
efficiency of deep reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms. While learning world models for …

Learning interactive driving policies via data-driven simulation

TH Wang, A Amini, W Schwarting… - … on Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Data-driven simulators promise high data-efficiency for driving policy learning. When used
for modelling interactions, this data-efficiency becomes a bottleneck: small underlying …

Anomaly detection in multi-agent trajectories for automated driving

J Wiederer, A Bouazizi, M Troina… - … on Robot Learning, 2022 - proceedings.mlr.press
Human drivers can recognise fast abnormal driving situations to avoid accidents. Similar to
humans, automated vehicles are supposed to perform anomaly detection. In this work, we …

A hierarchical approach for strategic motion planning in autonomous racing

R Reiter, J Hoffmann, J Boedecker… - 2023 European Control …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present an approach for safe trajectory planning, where a strategic task related to
autonomous racing is learned sample efficiently within a simulation environment. A high …