@inproceedings{discovery10189766, month = {July}, note = {This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions.}, title = {Game-Theoretic Model Predictive Control for Safety-Assured Autonomous Vehicle Overtaking in Mixed-Autonomy Environment}, year = {2024}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 22nd European Control Conference}, publisher = {Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)}, journal = {22nd European Control Conference}, author = {Yu, Sheng and Chen, Boli and Jaimoukha, Imad M and Evangelou, Simos A}, abstract = {This work proposes a robust control strategy for an autonomous vehicle to overtake safely and comfortably a human-driven vehicle. The proposed scheme designs a collisionavoidance constraint setup that comprehensively coordinates dimension-based and velocity-dependent constraints to fulfil the safety criteria. A three-phase control framework is proposed for the overtaking task, subject to separate collision-avoidance constraints in lane changing, passing, and merging phases. Moreover, the proposed method utilises a Stackelberg game model to interactively involve the human-driven overtaken vehicle behaviours in the online optimisation loop. To further cope with uncertainties caused by the human driver, the optimisation is solved by a robust model predictive controller to guarantee the avoidance of collisions. Numerical case studies verify that the proposed framework is capable of overtaking not only a cooperative human-driven vehicle but also an uncooperative human-driven vehicle with safe and comfortable trajectories.}, url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/home.jsp} }