Xie, Songtao; Hu, Junyan; Bhowmick, Parijat; Ding, Zhengtao; Arvin, Farshad; (2022) Distributed Motion Planning for Safe Autonomous Vehicle Overtaking via Artificial Potential Field. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems , 23 (11) pp. 21531-21547. 10.1109/TITS.2022.3189741.

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Abstract

Autonomous driving of multi-lane vehicle platoons have attracted significant attention in recent years due to their potential to enhance the traffic-carrying capacity of the roads and produce better safety for drivers and passengers. This paper proposes a distributed motion planning algorithm to ensure safe overtaking of autonomous vehicles in a dynamic environment using the Artificial Potential Field method. Unlike the conventional overtaking techniques, autonomous driving strategies can be used to implement safe overtaking via formation control of unmanned vehicles in a complex vehicle platoon in the presence of human-operated vehicles. Firstly, we formulate the overtaking problem of a group of autonomous vehicles into a multi-target tracking problem, where the targets are dynamic. To model a multi-vehicle system consisting of both autonomous and human-operated vehicles, we introduce the notion of velocity difference potential field and acceleration difference potential field. We then analyze the stability of the multi-lane vehicle platoon and propose an optimization-based algorithm for solving the overtaking problem by placing a dynamic target in the traditional artificial potential field. A simulation case study has been performed to verify the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed distributed motion control strategy for safe overtaking in a multi-lane vehicle platoon.

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