Adversarial Deep Reinforcement Learning for Improving the Robustness of Multi-agent Autonomous Driving Policies
Autonomous cars are well known for being vulnerable to adversarial attacks that can compromise the safety of the car and pose danger to other road users. To effectively defend against adversaries, it is required to not only test autonomous cars for finding driving errors, but to improve the robustness of the cars to these errors. To this end, in this paper, we propose a two-step methodology for autonomous cars that consists of (i) finding failure states in autonomous cars by training the adversarial driving agent, and (ii) improving the robustness of autonomous cars by retraining them with effective adversarial inputs. Our methodology supports testing autonomous cars in a multi-agent environment, where we train and compare adversarial car policy on two custom reward functions to test the driving control decision of autonomous cars. We run experiments in a vision-based high fidelity urban driving simulated environment. Our results show that adversarial testing can be used for finding erroneous autonomous driving behavior, followed by adversarial training for improving the robustness of deep reinforcement learning based autonomous driving policies. We demonstrate that the autonomous cars retrained using the effective adversarial inputs noticeably increase the performance of their driving policies in terms of reduced collision and offroad steering errors.
Fri 9 DecDisplayed time zone: Osaka, Sapporo, Tokyo change
13:00 - 14:00 | Machine Learning 3Technical Track at Room2 Chair(s): Atul Gupta Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing (IIITDM) | ||
13:00 20mPaper | Efficient Reinforcement Learning with Generalized-Reactivity Specifications Technical Track Chenyang Zhu , Yujie Cai Changzhou University, Can Hu changzhou university, Jia Bi University of Southampton | ||
13:20 20mPaper | Adversarial Deep Reinforcement Learning for Improving the Robustness of Multi-agent Autonomous Driving Policies Technical Track | ||
13:40 20mPaper | DronLomaly: Runtime Detection of Anomalous Drone Behaviors via Log Analysis and Deep Learning Technical Track Lwin Khin Shar Singapore Management University, Wei Minn Singapore Management University, Duong Ta Singapore Management University, Jiani Fan Nanyang Technological University, Lingxiao Jiang Singapore Management University, Daniel Lim Wai Kiat Singapore Management University |