Shared learning of powertrain control policies for vehicle fleets

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17892v1
• Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2024 13:01:05 GMT
• Title: Shared learning of powertrain control policies for vehicle fleets
• Authors: Lindsey Kerbel, Beshah Ayalew, Andrej Ivanco,
• Abstract summary: Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) aims at on-the-field learning of powertrain control policies that optimize fuel economy and other performance metrics. We present a novel framework for shared learning among a fleet of vehicles through the use of a distilled group policy. We find a fleet average improvement of 8.5 percent in fuel economy compared to the baseline.
• Score: 3.9325957466009203
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Emerging data-driven approaches, such as deep reinforcement learning (DRL), aim at on-the-field learning of powertrain control policies that optimize fuel economy and other performance metrics. Indeed, they have shown great potential in this regard for individual vehicles on specific routes or drive cycles. However, for fleets of vehicles that must service a distribution of routes, DRL approaches struggle with learning stability issues that result in high variances and challenge their practical deployment. In this paper, we present a novel framework for shared learning among a fleet of vehicles through the use of a distilled group policy as the knowledge sharing mechanism for the policy learning computations at each vehicle. We detail the mathematical formulation that makes this possible. Several scenarios are considered to analyze the functionality, performance, and computational scalability of the framework with fleet size. Comparisons of the cumulative performance of fleets using our proposed shared learning approach with a baseline of individual learning agents and another state-of-the-art approach with a centralized learner show clear advantages to our approach. For example, we find a fleet average asymptotic improvement of 8.5 percent in fuel economy compared to the baseline while also improving on the metrics of acceleration error and shifting frequency for fleets serving a distribution of suburban routes. Furthermore, we include demonstrative results that show how the framework reduces variance within a fleet and also how it helps individual agents adapt better to new routes.

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