A review of safe reinforcement learning: Methods, theory and applications

S Gu, L Yang, Y Du, G Chen, F Walter, J Wang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Reinforcement Learning (RL) has achieved tremendous success in many complex decision-
making tasks. However, safety concerns are raised during deploying RL in real-world …

Multi-agent reinforcement learning: Methods, applications, visionary prospects, and challenges

Z Zhou, G Liu, Y Tang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.10091, 2023 - arxiv.org
Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) is a widely used Artificial Intelligence (AI)
technique. However, current studies and applications need to address its scalability, non …

Deep multi-agent reinforcement learning for highway on-ramp merging in mixed traffic

D Chen, MR Hajidavalloo, Z Li, K Chen… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
On-ramp merging is a challenging task for autonomous vehicles (AVs), especially in mixed
traffic where AVs coexist with human-driven vehicles (HDVs). In this paper, we formulate the …

Compositional policy learning in stochastic control systems with formal guarantees

Đ Žikelić, M Lechner, A Verma… - Advances in …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Reinforcement learning has shown promising results in learning neural network policies for
complicated control tasks. However, the lack of formal guarantees about the behavior of …

Physics-shielded multi-agent deep reinforcement learning for safe active voltage control with photovoltaic/battery energy storage systems

P Chen, S Liu, X Wang, I Kamwa - IEEE Transactions on Smart …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
While many multi-agent deep reinforcement learning (MADRL) algorithms have been
implemented for active voltage control (AVC) in power distribution systems, the safety of …

Learning control policies for stochastic systems with reach-avoid guarantees

Đ Žikelić, M Lechner, TA Henzinger… - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2023 - ojs.aaai.org
We study the problem of learning controllers for discrete-time non-linear stochastic
dynamical systems with formal reach-avoid guarantees. This work presents the first method …

A comprehensive survey on multi-agent reinforcement learning for connected and automated vehicles

P Yadav, A Mishra, S Kim - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
Connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) require multiple tasks in their seamless
maneuverings. Some essential tasks that require simultaneous management and actions …

Learning safe control for multi-robot systems: Methods, verification, and open challenges

K Garg, S Zhang, O So, C Dawson, C Fan - Annual Reviews in Control, 2024 - Elsevier
In this survey, we review the recent advances in control design methods for robotic multi-
agent systems (MAS), focusing on learning-based methods with safety considerations. We …

Safe multi-agent reinforcement learning through decentralized multiple control barrier functions

Z Cai, H Cao, W Lu, L Zhang, H Xiong - arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.12553, 2021 - arxiv.org
Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) algorithms show amazing performance in
simulation in recent years, but placing MARL in real-world applications may suffer safety …

Safe deep reinforcement learning by verifying task-level properties

E Marchesini, L Marzari, A Farinelli, C Amato - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Cost functions are commonly employed in Safe Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL).
However, the cost is typically encoded as an indicator function due to the difficulty of …