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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2020

An Edge Based Multi-Agent Auto Communication Method for Traffic Light Control.

Qiang Wu, Jianqing Wu, Jun Shen, Binbin Yong, Qingguo Zhou

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Qiang WuSchool of Information & Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China.
Jianqing WuSchool of Computing and Information Technology, University ofWollongong, Wollongong 2522, Australia.
Jun ShenSchool of Computing and Information Technology, University ofWollongong, Wollongong 2522, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-7198-4199
Binbin YongSchool of Information & Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China.
Qingguo ZhouSchool of Information & Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China.

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Abstract

With smart city infrastructures growing, the Internet of Things (IoT) has been widely used in the intelligent transportation systems (ITS). The traditional adaptive traffic signal control method based on reinforcement learning (RL) has expanded from one intersection to multiple intersections. In this paper, we propose a multi-agent auto communication (MAAC) algorithm, which is an innovative adaptive global traffic light control method based on multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) and an auto communication protocol in edge computing architecture. The MAAC algorithm combines multi-agent auto communication protocol with MARL, allowing an agent to communicate the learned strategies with others for achieving global optimization in traffic signal control. In addition, we present a practicable edge computing architecture for industrial deployment on IoT, considering the limitations of the capabilities of network transmission bandwidth. We demonstrate that our algorithm outperforms other methods over 17% in experiments in a real traffic simulation environment.

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edge computingIoTITSMAACMRALmulti-agentreinforcement learning

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PMID32752055
PMCPMC7436084

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