An Efficient Risk-aware Branch MPC for Automated Driving that is Robust to Uncertain Vehicle Behaviors
2024 (English)In: 2024 IEEE 63rd Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2024, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , 2024, p. 8207-8212Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
One of the critical challenges in automated driving is ensuring safety of automated vehicles despite the unknown behavior of the other vehicles. Although motion prediction modules are able to generate a probability distribution associated with various behavior modes, their probabilistic estimates are often inaccurate, thus leading to a possibly unsafe motion plan. To overcome this challenge, we propose an Efficient RiskAware Branch MPC (EraBMPC) that appropriately accounts for the ambiguity in the estimated probability distribution. We formulate the risk-aware motion planning problem as a min-max optimization problem and develop an efficient iterative method by incorporating a regularization term in the probability update step. Via extensive numerical studies, we validate the convergence of our method and demonstrate its advantages compared to the state-of-the-art approaches.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , 2024. p. 8207-8212
National Category
Control Engineering Vehicle and Aerospace Engineering Robotics and automation
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-361744DOI: 10.1109/CDC56724.2024.10886383Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-86000632496OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-361744DiVA, id: diva2:1948011
Conference
63rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2024, Milan, Italy, Dec 16 2024 - Dec 19 2024
Note
Part of ISBN 9798350316339
QC 20250401
2025-03-272025-03-272025-04-01Bibliographically approved