Gated branch neural network for mandatory lane changing suggestion at the on‐ramps of highway

A gated branch neural network (GBNN) is proposed for modelling mandatory lane changing (MLC) behaviour at the on‐ramps of highways. It provides a core algorithm for an MLC suggestion system for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), where the main challenge is the trade‐off between computational speed and prediction accuracy for both non‐merge and merge events. The GBNN algorithm employs a gated branch based on correlation analysis, scaled …