Title
Collision Imminent Steering at High Speed Using Nonlinear Model Predictive Control
Abstract
Collision imminent steering is an automotive active safety feature designed to perform an aggressive lane change to avoid a forward collision in the event that the system determines there is insufficient distance to avoid a collision by braking alone.In this paper, a collision imminent steering system is developed using nonlinear model predictive control to perform a lane change at high speed in a highway environment. Two formulations are presented: one formulation to show the theoretical minimum lane change distance within which a safe lane change can be performed, and a second formulation to find the minimum aggressive maneuver for a given lane change distance. The nonlinear model predictive control formulation is posed as a constrained optimization problem, where solutions obey hard safety constraints of the highway environment. Constraint aggregation techniques are analyzed and introduced to monitor the peak tire slip throughout the maneuver. Numerical simulations of a typical luxury sedan in a highway setting show that minimum distance required to change lanes is about half the limit braking distance. Hence, there is a window of feasibility where the vehicle cannot avoid collision by braking alone, but can change lanes safely and maintain a safe trajectory throughout the maneuver. Additional simulations show that an active four wheel steering architecture improves performance over front only steering.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/TVT.2020.2999612
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Advanced driver assistance systems,autonomous vehicles,nonlinear control systems,trajectory optimization,vehicle dynamics
Journal
69
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
8
0018-9545
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
John Wurts111.71
Jeff Stein210.36
Tulga Ersal33315.63