Traction Adaptive Motion Planning and Control at the Limits of HandlingShow others and affiliations
2022 (English)In: IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, ISSN 1063-6536, E-ISSN 1558-0865, Vol. 30, no 5, p. 1888-1904Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
In this article, we address the problem of motion planning and control at the limits of handling, under locally varying traction conditions. We propose a novel solution method where traction variations over the prediction horizon are represented by time-varying tire force constraints, derived from a predictive friction estimate. A \CFTOClong (\CFTOCshort) is solved in a receding horizon fashion, imposing these time-varying constraints. Furthermore, our method features an integrated sampling augmentation procedure that addresses the problems of infeasibility and sensitivity to local minima that arise at abrupt constraint alterations, for example, due to sudden friction changes. We validate the proposed algorithm on a Volvo FH16 heavy-duty vehicle, in a range of critical scenarios. Experimental results indicate that traction adaptive motion planning and control improves the vehicle's capacity to avoid accidents, both when adapting to low local traction, by ensuring dynamic feasibility of the planned motion, and when adapting to high local traction, by realizing high traction utilization.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , 2022. Vol. 30, no 5, p. 1888-1904
Keywords [en]
Adaptive control, autonomous vehicles, collision avoidance, Force, friction, motion planning, optimization-based motion planning, Planning, Roads, sampling-based motion planning, Tires, Trajectory, vehicle control., Vehicle dynamics
National Category
Computer graphics and computer vision Vehicle and Aerospace Engineering
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-313859DOI: 10.1109/TCST.2021.3129373ISI: 000732207700001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85121335513OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-313859DiVA, id: diva2:1668239
Note
QC 20250324
2022-06-132022-06-132025-03-24Bibliographically approved