Intelligent connected vehicle motion planning at unsignalized intersections based on deep reinforcement learning
A vehicle motion planning algorithm based on deep reinforcement learning was proposed to satisfy the efficiency and comfort requirements of intelligent connected vehicles at unsignalized intersections.Temporal convolutional network(TCN)and Transformer algorithms were combined to construct the intention prediction model for surrounding vehicles.The multi-layer convolution and self-attention mechanisms were used to improve the capability of capturing vehicle motion feature.The twin delayed deep deterministic policy gradient(TD3)reinforcement learning algorithm was employed to build the vehicle motion planning model.Taking the driving intention of surrounding vehicle,driving style,interaction risk,and the comfort of ego vehicle into consideration comprehensively,the state space and reward functions were designed to enhance understanding the dynamic environment.Delaying the policy updates and smoothing the target policies were conducted to improve the stability of the proposed algorithm,and the desired acceleration was output in real-time.Experimental results demonstrated that the proposed motion planning algorithm can perceive the real-time potential interaction risk based on the driving intention of surrounding vehicles.The generated motion planning strategy met the requirements of the efficiency,safety and comfort.It showed excellent adaptability to different styles of surrounding vehicles and dense interaction scenarios,and the success rates exceeded 92.1%in various scenarios.