Title
Moving Obstacle Avoidance For Large, High-Speed Autonomous Ground Vehicles
Abstract
This work introduces the use of hard constraints to avoid moving obstacles for navigating a large, high-speed autonomous ground vehicle in an unstructured environment using nonlinear model predictive control in a single-level architecture, where path planning and tracking are combined into a single optimization problem. Additionally, the hard constraints approach is compared to the traditional approach in this context which implements obstacle avoidance by augmenting the obstacle avoidance requirements into the cost function as soft constraints. In both approaches, the control signals, which are steering angle command and reference longitudinal speed, are optimized using a nonlinear vehicle dynamics model, where the objective is to minimize the time-to-goal. Results indicate that the hard constraints approach outperforms the soft constraints approach both in terms of obstacle avoidance performance and optimization time.
Year
Venue
Field
2017
2017 AMERICAN CONTROL CONFERENCE (ACC)
Obstacle avoidance,Motion planning,Nonlinear system,Control theory,Computer science,Model predictive control,Control engineering,Vehicle dynamics,Ground vehicles,Optimization problem,Trajectory
DocType
ISSN
Citations 
Conference
0743-1619
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
5
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Huckleberry Febbo101.01
Jiechao Liu260.83
Paramsothy Jayakumar3115.03
Jeffrey L. Stein415827.02
Tulga Ersal53315.63