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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2018
Filed:
May. 12, 2017
Applicant:
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Erlanger, KY (US);
Inventor:
Tomoki Nishi, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Assignee:
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/00 (2006.01); G05D 1/02 (2006.01); G06N 99/00 (2010.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/0088 (2013.01); G05D 1/0214 (2013.01); G05D 1/0221 (2013.01); G06N 99/005 (2013.01); G05D 2201/0213 (2013.01);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method is provided for autonomously controlling a vehicle to perform a vehicle operation. The method includes steps of applying a passive actor-critic reinforcement learning method to passively-collected data relating to the vehicle operation, to learn a control policy configured for controlling the vehicle so as to perform the vehicle operation with a minimum expected cumulative cost; and controlling the vehicle in accordance with the control policy to perform the vehicle operation.