Recent years have seen the rapid development of autonomous driving systems,which are typically designed in a hierarchical architecture or an end-to-end architecture.The hierarchical architecture is always complicated ...Recent years have seen the rapid development of autonomous driving systems,which are typically designed in a hierarchical architecture or an end-to-end architecture.The hierarchical architecture is always complicated and hard to design,while the end-to-end architecture is more promising due to its simple structure.This paper puts forward an end-to-end autonomous driving method through a deep reinforcement learning algorithm Dueling Double Deep Q-Network,making it possible for the vehicle to learn end-to-end driving by itself.This paper firstly proposes an architecture for the end-to-end lane-keeping task.Unlike the traditional image-only state space,the presented state space is composed of both camera images and vehicle motion information.Then corresponding dueling neural network structure is introduced,which reduces the variance and improves sampling efficiency.Thirdly,the proposed method is applied to The Open Racing Car Simulator(TORCS)to demonstrate its great performance,where it surpasses human drivers.Finally,the saliency map of the neural network is visualized,which indicates the trained network drives by observing the lane lines.A video for the presented work is available online,https://youtu.be/76ciJ mIHMD8 or https://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNDM4 ODc0M TM4NA==.html.展开更多
基金This work is supported by the National Key Research and Development Project of China under Grant 2018YFB1600600Beijing Natural Science Foundation with JQ18010.The authors should also thank the support from Tsinghua University-Didi Joint Research Center for Future Mobility.
文摘Recent years have seen the rapid development of autonomous driving systems,which are typically designed in a hierarchical architecture or an end-to-end architecture.The hierarchical architecture is always complicated and hard to design,while the end-to-end architecture is more promising due to its simple structure.This paper puts forward an end-to-end autonomous driving method through a deep reinforcement learning algorithm Dueling Double Deep Q-Network,making it possible for the vehicle to learn end-to-end driving by itself.This paper firstly proposes an architecture for the end-to-end lane-keeping task.Unlike the traditional image-only state space,the presented state space is composed of both camera images and vehicle motion information.Then corresponding dueling neural network structure is introduced,which reduces the variance and improves sampling efficiency.Thirdly,the proposed method is applied to The Open Racing Car Simulator(TORCS)to demonstrate its great performance,where it surpasses human drivers.Finally,the saliency map of the neural network is visualized,which indicates the trained network drives by observing the lane lines.A video for the presented work is available online,https://youtu.be/76ciJ mIHMD8 or https://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNDM4 ODc0M TM4NA==.html.
