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Autonomous Driving with Deep Reinforcement Learning in CARLA Simulation

arXiv 2306.11217 ↗First posted 20 Jun 2023cs.RO cs.AI cs.LGcited by 5

On the map: End-to-end autonomous driving → Reinforcement learning for driving

Abstract (arXiv)

Nowadays, autonomous vehicles are gaining traction due to their numerous potential applications in resolving a variety of other real-world challenges. However, developing autonomous vehicles need huge amount of training and testing before deploying it to real world. While the field of reinforcement learning (RL) has evolved into a powerful learning framework to the development of deep representation learning, and it is now capable of learning complicated policies in high-dimensional environments like in autonomous vehicles. In this regard, we make an effort, using Deep Q-Learning, to discover a method by which an autonomous car may maintain its lane at top speed while avoiding other vehicles. After that, we used CARLA simulation environment to test and verify our newly acquired policy based on the problem formulation.

Key facts. Cited by 5 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Placed in Reinforcement learning for driving, one of 9 directions in End-to-end autonomous driving. Builds on 9 of its 15 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 20 Jun 2023.

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  1. 2022Driving in Real Life with Inverse Reinforcement Learning7 Jun

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  1. 2017Proximal Policy Optimization Algorithmscited by 15,215
  2. 2018Soft Actor-Critic: Off-Policy Maximum Entropy Deep Reinforcement Learning with a Stochastic Actorcited by 4,885
  3. 2015Continuous control with deep reinforcement learningcited by 3,407
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  1. 2023Safe Navigation: Training Autonomous Vehicles using Deep Reinforcement Learning in CARLA
  2. 2025A Comprehensive Review of Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Driving in the CARLA Simulator
  3. 2020Deep Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Driving: A Survey
  4. 2021Reinforcement Learning Based Safe Decision Making for Highway Autonomous Driving
  5. 2024Self-Driving Car Racing: Application of Deep Reinforcement Learning
  6. 2021Modified DDPG car-following model with a real-world human driving experience with CARLA simulator
  7. 2019Model-free Deep Reinforcement Learning for Urban Autonomous Driving
  8. 2021An Independent Study of Reinforcement Learning and Autonomous Driving