Modelling, predicting and analysing driver behaviours are essential to advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and the comprehensive understanding of complex driving scenarios. Recently, with the development of deep learning (DL), numerous driver behaviour learning (DBL) methods have been proposed and applied in connected vehicles (CV) and intelligent transportation systems (ITS). This study provides a review of DBL, which mainly focuses on typical applications in CV and ITS. First, a comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art DBL is presented. Next, Given the constantly changing nature of real driving scenarios, most existing learning-based models may suffer from the so-called “catastrophic forgetting,” which refers to their inability to perform well in previously learned scenarios after acquiring new ones. As a solution to the aforementioned issue, this paper presents a framework for continual driver behaviour learning (CDBL) by leveraging continual learning technology. The proposed CDBL framework is demonstrated to outperform existing methods in behaviour prediction through a case study. Finally, future works, potential challenges and emerging trends in this area are highlighted.

Intelligent vehicles have achieved a considerable development in technologies and can fulfill the basic functions of autonomous driving in a limited closed environment. However, results of actual road tests show that the current technologies of intelligent vehicles still have many limitations and their large-scale application in complex urban and off-road environments still faces many challenges. As one of the key technologies, the motion planning and control technology has basically formed a complete theoretical system and has been widely applied in engineering. However, the traditional methods still have some defects in practical application, such as the inability of understanding dynamic and complex scenes, poor adaptability for different scenes, high complexity of the model, and difficulty in parameter tuning. Due to the strong ability in knowledge representation and model fitting, machine learning methods have been widely applied in perception and navigation technology for intelligent vehicles. In order to solve the problems of generalization and applicability in traditional motion planning and control techniques, many researchers have also devoted themselves to exploring the usage of deep learning, reinforcement learning, and so on machine learning methods in motion planning and control policy for intelligent vehicles. In this paper, machine learning-based methods were reviewed for motion planning and control in intelligent vehicles, analyzing the existing policy learning methods for motion planning and control from three aspects, including basic framework, basic learning paradigms, and different planning and control methods based on learning. Finally, the research status and future development directions were summarized and prospected.

Precisely modeling interactions and accurately predicting trajectories of surrounding vehicles are essential to the decision-making and path-planning of intelligent vehicles. This paper proposes a novel framework based on ensemble learning to improve the performance of trajectory predictions in interactive scenarios. The framework is termed Interactive Ensemble Trajectory Predictor (IETP). IETP assembles interaction-aware trajectory predictors as base learners to build an ensemble learner. Firstly, each base learner in IETP observes historical trajectories of vehicles in the scene. Then each base learner handles interactions between vehicles to predict trajectories. Finally, an ensemble learner is built to predict trajectories by applying two ensemble strategies on the predictions from all base learners. Predictions generated by the ensemble learner are final outputs of IETP. In this study, three experiments using different data are conducted based on the NGSIM dataset. Experimental results show that IETP improves the predicting accuracy and decreases the variance of errors compared to base learners. In addition, IETP exceeds baseline models with 50% of the training data, indicating that IETP is data-efficient. Moreover, the implementation of IETP is publicly available at https://github.com/BIT-Jack/IETP.