Energy-Optimal Coordination of Autonomous Vehicles at Intersections
Paper in proceeding, 2018

The problem of coordinating automated vehicles at intersections is naturally posed within the optimal control framework, using objectives such as minimization of energy consumption. In this paper we extend previous work to include relevant nonlinearities in the vehicle models and propose a cost function that directly captures both energy consumption and travel time. The problem is a so-called Economic MPC (EMPC) problem, which entails both numerical and theoretical chal- lenges. To address these issues, we propose to use a previously presented procedure to tune a MPC with a quadratic objective to approximate the EMPC. We evaluate the performance of both linear and nonlinear approximating MPC controllers in simulation. In particular, we demonstrate that a standard linear MPC can be tuned to so that the losses with respect to the EMPC is below 1%.

Author

Robert Hult

Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Systems and control

Mario Zanon

Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Systems and control

Sébastien Gros

Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Systems and control

Paolo Falcone

Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Systems and control

2018 European Control Conference (ECC)

602-607
978-395242698-2 (ISBN)

17th European Control Conference, ECC 2018
Limassol, Cyprus,

Distribuerad koordinering av mobila nätverks system i okända miljöer

Swedish Research Council (VR) (2012-4038), 2013-01-01 -- 2016-01-01.

Areas of Advance

Transport

Subject Categories

Computational Mathematics

Robotics

Control Engineering

DOI

10.23919/ECC.2018.8550367

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8/12/2019