Search Results for author: Anouck Girard

Found 18 papers, 0 papers with code

Autonomous Driving With Perception Uncertainties: Deep-Ensemble Based Adaptive Cruise Control

no code implementations22 Mar 2024 Xiao Li, H. Eric Tseng, Anouck Girard, Ilya Kolmanovsky

In the scenario of Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC), we employ the Deep Ensemble to estimate distance headway to the lead vehicle from RGB images and enable the downstream controller to account for the estimation uncertainty.

Autonomous Driving Decision Making +1

System-level Safety Guard: Safe Tracking Control through Uncertain Neural Network Dynamics Models

no code implementations11 Dec 2023 Xiao Li, Yutong Li, Anouck Girard, Ilya Kolmanovsky

The Neural Network (NN), as a black-box function approximator, has been considered in many control and robotics applications.

Robot Navigation

Game Projection and Robustness for Game-Theoretic Autonomous Driving

no code implementations29 Nov 2023 Mushuang Liu, H. Eric Tseng, Dimitar Filev, Anouck Girard, Ilya Kolmanovsky

This paper defines the robustness margin of a game solution as the maximum magnitude of cost function deviations that can be accommodated in a game without changing the optimality of the game solution.

Autonomous Driving Decision Making

Interaction-Aware Decision-Making for Autonomous Vehicles in Forced Merging Scenario Leveraging Social Psychology Factors

no code implementations25 Sep 2023 Xiao Li, Kaiwen Liu, H. Eric Tseng, Anouck Girard, Ilya Kolmanovsky

Understanding the intention of vehicles in the surrounding traffic is crucial for an autonomous vehicle to successfully accomplish its driving tasks in complex traffic scenarios such as highway forced merging.

Autonomous Vehicles Decision Making

Safe Control and Learning Using Generalized Action Governor

no code implementations22 Nov 2022 Nan Li, Yutong Li, Ilya Kolmanovsky, Anouck Girard, H. Eric Tseng, Dimitar Filev

This paper introduces the Generalized Action Governor, which is a supervisory scheme for augmenting a nominal closed-loop system with the capability of strictly handling constraints.

reinforcement-learning Reinforcement Learning (RL)

Safe and Human-Like Autonomous Driving: A Predictor-Corrector Potential Game Approach

no code implementations4 Aug 2022 Mushuang Liu, H. Eric Tseng, Dimitar Filev, Anouck Girard, Ilya Kolmanovsky

To address the challenges caused by the complexity in solving a multi-player game and by the requirement of real-time operation, a potential game (PG) based decision-making framework is developed.

Autonomous Driving Decision Making

Robust Action Governor for Uncertain Piecewise Affine Systems with Non-convex Constraints and Safe Reinforcement Learning

no code implementations17 Jul 2022 Yutong Li, Nan Li, H. Eric Tseng, Anouck Girard, Dimitar Filev, Ilya Kolmanovsky

The action governor is an add-on scheme to a nominal control loop that monitors and adjusts the control actions to enforce safety specifications expressed as pointwise-in-time state and control constraints.

Reinforcement Learning (RL) Safe Reinforcement Learning

Potential Game-Based Decision-Making for Autonomous Driving

no code implementations16 Jan 2022 Mushuang Liu, Ilya Kolmanovsky, H. Eric Tseng, Suzhou Huang, Dimitar Filev, Anouck Girard

Statistical comparative studies, including 1) finite potential game vs. continuous potential game, and 2) best response dynamics vs. potential function optimization, are conducted to compare the performances of different solution algorithms.

Autonomous Driving Decision Making

Interaction-Aware Trajectory Prediction and Planning for Autonomous Vehicles in Forced Merge Scenarios

no code implementations14 Dec 2021 Kaiwen Liu, Nan Li, H. Eric Tseng, Ilya Kolmanovsky, Anouck Girard

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 vehicles to identify or create a gap and safely merge into.

Autonomous Vehicles Model Predictive Control +1

Safe Reinforcement Learning Using Robust Action Governor

no code implementations21 Feb 2021 Yutong Li, Nan Li, H. Eric Tseng, Anouck Girard, Dimitar Filev, Ilya Kolmanovsky

Reinforcement Learning (RL) is essentially a trial-and-error learning procedure which may cause unsafe behavior during the exploration-and-exploitation process.

reinforcement-learning Reinforcement Learning (RL) +1

Safe Learning Reference Governor: Theory and Application to Fuel Truck Rollover Avoidance

no code implementations22 Jan 2021 Kaiwen Liu, Nan Li, Ilya Kolmanovsky, Denise Rizzo, Anouck Girard

This paper proposes a learning reference governor (LRG) approach to enforce state and control constraints in systems for which an accurate model is unavailable, and this approach enables the reference governor to gradually improve command tracking performance through learning while enforcing the constraints during learning and after learning is completed.

Game-theoretic Modeling of Traffic in Unsignalized Intersection Network for Autonomous Vehicle Control Verification and Validation

no code implementations16 Oct 2019 Ran Tian, Nan Li, Ilya Kolmanovsky, Yildiray Yildiz, Anouck Girard

For a foreseeable future, autonomous vehicles (AVs) will operate in traffic together with human-driven vehicles.

Robotics Systems and Control Systems and Control

Beating humans in a penny-matching game by leveraging cognitive hierarchy theory and Bayesian learning

no code implementations27 Sep 2019 Ran Tian, Nan Li, Ilya Kolmanovsky, Anouck Girard

It is a long-standing goal of artificial intelligence (AI) to be superior to human beings in decision making.

Decision Making

Adaptive Game-Theoretic Decision Making for Autonomous Vehicle Control at Roundabouts

no code implementations1 Oct 2018 Ran Tian, Sisi Li, Nan Li, Ilya Kolmanovsky, Anouck Girard, Yildiray Yildiz

In this paper, we propose a decision making algorithm for autonomous vehicle control at a roundabout intersection.

Decision Making

Game-Theoretic Modeling of Driver and Vehicle Interactions for Verification and Validation of Autonomous Vehicle Control Systems

no code implementations30 Aug 2016 Nan Li, Dave Oyler, Mengxuan Zhang, Yildiray Yildiz, Ilya Kolmanovsky, Anouck Girard

Traffic simulators where these interactions can be modeled and represented with reasonable fidelity can help decrease the time and effort necessary for the development of the autonomous driving control algorithms by providing a venue where acceptable initial control calibrations can be achieved quickly and safely before actual road tests.

Autonomous Driving

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