The decision-making system of intelligent vehicles is the core component of an advanced driving system for both passenger vehicles and commercial vehicles. Finding ways to improve decisionmaking strategies to suit the complex and unfamiliar environments is a standing problem for traditional rule-based methods. This paper proposes a semi-rule-based decision-making strategy for heavy intelligent vehicles based on the Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient algorithm. Firstly, according to the

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... wing characteristics, the problems of high dimensions and a large amount of data in vehicle action space and state space are solved by dimension reduction and interval reduction to accelerate the training process. Subsequently, an accurate three-axle vehicle load model is established to calculate the load transfer rate value and carry out active control to increase the roll stability of heavy vehicles at high-speed corners. Furthermore, the Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient algorithm is developed based on the reward function and update function to achieve adaptive cruise control objectives for heavy vehicles on different curvature roads. Finally, the effectiveness and robustness of the algorithm are verified through simulation experiments. INDEX TERMS Adaptive cruise control, autonomous driving control system, decision-making algorithm, deep reinforcement learning, heavy vehicle, vehicle stability. VOLUME 8, 2020 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. For more information, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 59226 VOLUME 8, 2020