학술논문

Sense Avoidance Constraints for Conflict Resolution between Autonomous Vehicles
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine IEEE Intell. Transport. Syst. Mag. Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine, IEEE. 9(1):110-122 Jan, 2017
Subject
Transportation
Aerospace
Computing and Processing
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Intelligent vehicles
Trajectory
Collision avoidance
Safety
Aircraft
Encoding
Planning
Language
ISSN
1939-1390
1941-1197
Abstract
Potential conflict situations between vehicles in the presence of obstacles are addressed by a decentralized approach imposing sense constraints, i.e., requiring that the vehicles circumvent an obstacle in a predetermined sense: either clockwise or counterclockwise. Model Predictive Control is used to plan trajectories using binary decision variables. In order to do that, a novel scheme to choose the feasible regions is proposed, and then obstacle avoidance constraints are encoded using tuples of binary decision variables. Sense constraints arise naturally as an extension of the proposed encoding scheme, allowing for decentralized planning, given that the vehicles agree on the required sense of circumvention. Simulation results are used to illustrate the benefits of the proposed method.