Cooperative Autonomous Vehicles that Sympathize with Human Drivers

Behrad Toghi,Rodolfo Valiente,Dorsa Sadigh,Ramtin Pedarsani,Yaser P. Fallah,Behrad Toghi,Rodolfo Valiente,Dorsa Sadigh,Ramtin Pedarsani,Yaser P. Fallah

Widespread adoption of autonomous vehicles will not become a reality until solutions are developed that enable these intelligent agents to co-exist with humans. This includes safely and efficiently interacting with human-driven vehicles, especially in both conflictive and competitive scenarios. We build up on the prior work on socially-aware navigation and borrow the concept of social value orient...