Multi-Timescale Control and Communications with Deep Reinforcement Learning -- Part I: Communication-Aware Vehicle Control

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2311.11281v1
• Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2023 09:51:58 GMT
• Title: Multi-Timescale Control and Communications with Deep Reinforcement Learning -- Part I: Communication-Aware Vehicle Control
• Authors: Tong Liu, Lei Lei, Kan Zheng, Xuemin (Sherman) Shen
• Abstract summary: We propose a joint optimization framework of multi-timescale control and communications based on Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) In this paper (Part I), we first decompose the problem into a communication-aware DRL-based PC sub-problem and a control-aware DRL-based RRA sub-problem. To improve the PC performance under random observation delay, the PC state space is augmented with the observation delay and PC action history. It is proved that the optimal policy for the augmented state MDP is optimal for the original PC problem with observation delay.
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• Abstract: An intelligent decision-making system enabled by Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communications is essential to achieve safe and efficient autonomous driving (AD), where two types of decisions have to be made at different timescales, i.e., vehicle control and radio resource allocation (RRA) decisions. The interplay between RRA and vehicle control necessitates their collaborative design. In this two-part paper (Part I and Part II), taking platoon control (PC) as an example use case, we propose a joint optimization framework of multi-timescale control and communications (MTCC) based on Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL). In this paper (Part I), we first decompose the problem into a communication-aware DRL-based PC sub-problem and a control-aware DRL-based RRA sub-problem. Then, we focus on the PC sub-problem assuming an RRA policy is given, and propose the MTCC-PC algorithm to learn an efficient PC policy. To improve the PC performance under random observation delay, the PC state space is augmented with the observation delay and PC action history. Moreover, the reward function with respect to the augmented state is defined to construct an augmented state Markov Decision Process (MDP). It is proved that the optimal policy for the augmented state MDP is optimal for the original PC problem with observation delay. Different from most existing works on communication-aware control, the MTCC-PC algorithm is trained in a delayed environment generated by the fine-grained embedded simulation of C-V2X communications rather than by a simple stochastic delay model. Finally, experiments are performed to compare the performance of MTCC-PC with those of the baseline DRL algorithms.

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