Safe Platooning in Automated Highway Systems Part II: Velocity Tracking Controller

This paper presents the design of a velocity tracking controller for safe vehicle maneuvering in Automated Highway Systems (AHS) in which traffic is organized into platoons of closely spaced vehicles. The notion of safety is related to the absence of collisions that exceed a given relative velocity threshold. In a companion paper, state dependent safety regions for the platoons are designed in such a way that, whenever the state of a platoon is inside these safety regions, it is guaranteed that platoon maneuvering will be safe and follow the behavior prescribed by the finite state machines that control vehicles maneuvers. Velocity profiles inside these safety regions are derived for all the single lane maneuvers and a nonlinear velocity tracking controller is designed to track these profiles. This controller attempts to complete the maneuvers with comfort in minimum time, whenever safety is not compromised. The control schemes presented in this paper were implemented and tested using AHS simulation software.     

车队认知能力增强的通信区块间隙优化方法

为了在单车超越车队的过程中缩短超车车辆与车队间通信范围，减少车队通信压力，锁定影响车辆入队的关键车队区块，同时通过将待进入关键区块的车队进行间隙优化调整，为驾驶人提供定制化换道入队引导服务，提出了基于驾驶人超车风格特征参数的车队内信息传输关键区块锁定算法，通过分析影响驾驶人换道入队位置范围的关键因素，将驾驶人换道入队过程分为本车道速度调整过程与入队速度调整过程，利用非参数贝叶斯算法获取驾驶人超车换道特征数据并提出基于关键区块所在车队位置序列的车辆间隙优化调整策略。研究结果表明：超车车辆加速度、与前车预计碰撞时间、与车队相对速度是影响驾驶人换道入队范围的关键因素；通过非参数贝叶斯算法将超车车辆运行数据分类获取的驾驶人换道入队驾驶操作基元，可准确提供驾驶人行为特征关键参数；通过将驾驶人换道特征分为48个子类型，可锁定驾驶人换道入队范围且车队关键区块范围随着超车车辆与车队速度差值不同在各个特征类型上呈现不同变化趋势；针对驾驶人入队特征对待进入车队关键区块的车辆间隙进行优化调整，不仅可以为驾驶人提供可接受的驾驶辅助信息，同时减少了车队间隙产生过程中车辆加速度范围，提升了车队运行的舒适性。     

车-车协同下无人驾驶车辆的换道汇入控制方法

多车协同驾驶是智能车路系统领域的研究热点之一,可有效降低道路交通控制管理的复杂程度,减少环境污染的同时保障道路交通安全。基于多车协同驾驶控制结构,提出了一种无人驾驶车辆换道汇入的驾驶模型及策略,系统分析了多车协同运行状态的稳定条件。在综合分析无人驾驶车辆换道汇入的协作准则、安全性评估后,基于高阶多项式方法,结合车辆运行特性,通过引入乘坐舒适性的指标函数,设计得到无人驾驶车辆换道汇入的有效运动轨迹。通过研究汇入车辆与车队中汇入点前、后各车辆的运动关系,详细分析车辆发生碰撞的类型和影响因素,给出避免碰撞的条件准则,从而确保无人驾驶车辆汇入过程中多车行驶的安全性和稳定性。基于车辆运动学建立车辆位置误差模型,结合系统大范围渐进稳定的条件,选取线速度和角速度作为输入,应用李雅普诺夫稳定性理论和Backstepping非线性控制算法,设计了无人驾驶车辆换道汇入后的路径跟踪控制器。仿真试验和实车试验结果表明：所设计的换道汇入路径是可行、安全的,控制器具有良好的跟踪效果,纵向和横向的距离误差在15 cm以内,方向偏差的相对误差在10%以内。研究结果为智能车路系统中的多车状态变迁与协同驾驶研究提供了参考,可服务于未来道路交通安全设计和评价。     

基于线性路径跟踪控制的换道避撞控制策略研究

为实现车辆自主避撞,改善道路交通安全状况,提出一种基于线性路径跟踪控制的换道避撞控制策略。为实时确定制动和换道时机,获取跟车状态下自车和前车车速、加速度、相对距离以及驾驶人制动反应时间计算制动安全距离和换道安全距离,并在此基础上分别引入制动危险系数B和换道危险系数S评估制动与换道风险,使得车辆发生追尾碰撞的危险程度和主动干预阈值更直观。根据车辆期望横向加速度和期望横向位移的变化特性,采用5次多项式法规划符合驾驶人换道避撞特性的避撞路径。为保证换道避撞过程中驾驶人的安全舒适,采用最大横向加速度约束换道避撞轨迹。为实现对换道避撞路径的线性跟踪控制,保证车辆的操纵稳定性和横摆稳定性,基于车辆稳态动力学模型建立前馈控制,结合线性反馈控制消除换道路径的位置和横摆角偏差,修正参考路径实现直车道场景追尾避撞控制。仿真和实车交叉验证试验表明：根据车辆期望横向加速度和期望横向位移建立的符合驾驶人换道避撞特性的五次多项式换道路径与驾驶人实际换道避撞路径基本吻合,结合碰撞时间和车间时距的制动避撞控制策略能够在保证车辆行驶安全舒适性的同时有效避免车辆追尾碰撞,减少交通事故的发生。     

基于二次规划的智能车辆动态换道轨迹规划研究

为实现智能车辆的自主换道操作并满足安全性、舒适性和实时性等约束条件,提出一种针对动态交通环境的换道轨迹规划模型。该模型由道路平面曲线表征模块、路径生成模块以及速度曲线生成模块组成。首先,在道路平面曲线表征模块中,模型基于实时获取的周边道路信息,利用切比雪夫多项式插值法回归拟合出连续可导的道路平面曲线函数,用以保证模型在各种道路平面线形上的普适性。然后,在路径生成模块中,根据换道车辆初始时刻的运动状态,建立一系列多项式方程,并利用牛顿迭代法求解方程未知参数,以此生成连接初始位置和目标位置的换道路径,用以保证换道轨迹的平滑性。最后,在速度曲线生成模块中,以满足防碰撞约束、跟驰加速度约束以及车辆运动状态约束为目标,构建二次规划模型,生成沿着换道路径的车辆速度曲线,用以保证换道轨迹的安全性和舒适性。此外,考虑到周边动态的交通环境,车辆系统在每个时间步内会循环调用提出的模型实时更新换道轨迹,直至车辆到达目标位置。仿真试验结果表明：应用提出的换道轨迹规划模型,车辆能够有效避免与周边动态车辆发生碰撞,成功完成换道;基于二次规划框架,模型优化求解时间明显缩短,满足轨迹规划的实时性和有效性要求。     

Intra-Platoon Collision Behavior during Emergency Operations

This paper presents current research regarding intra-platoon collision dynamics for rapid decelerations. Measures of ride quality and impact severity are introduced to allow comparisons between different collision scenarios. In this study, the disturbance input to the platoon is assumed to be a rapid braking of the lead vehicle. Several deceleration rates are used to assess the overall platoon behavior and the effect of the intra-platoon collisions on the platoon passengers. The role of the desired headway spacing on preventing the occurrence of intra-platoon collisions and improving rider comfort is discussed.     

Safe Platooning in Automated Highway Systems Part I: Safety Regions Design

This paper addresses the problem of designing safe controllers for vehicle manuevering in Automated Highway Systems (AHS) in which traffic is organized into platoons of closely spaced vehicles. Conditions to achieve safe platooning under normal modes of operation are investigated. The notion of safety is related with the absence of collisions that exceed a given relative velocity threshold. State dependent safety regions for the platoons are designed in such a way that, whenever the state of a platoon is inside these safety regions, it is guaranteed that platoon maneuvering will be safe and follow the behavior prescribed by the finite state machines that control vehicles manuevers. It is shown that it is possible to design control laws that keep the state of the platoons inside these safety regions. The results obtained allow one to decouple the controllers for the regulation of the manuevers and the finite state machines that determine their proper sequence in AHS architectures. The overall complexity of the design and verification of the AHS as an hybrid system is therefore greatly reduced.     

Safe Platooning in Automated Highway Systems Part I: Safety Regions Design

This paper addresses the problem of designing safe controllers for vehicle manuevering in Automated Highway Systems (AHS) in which traffic is organized into platoons of closely spaced vehicles. Conditions to achieve safe platooning under normal modes of operation are investigated. The notion of safety is related with the absence of collisions that exceed a given relative velocity threshold. State dependent safety regions for the platoons are designed in such a way that, whenever the state of a platoon is inside these safety regions, it is guaranteed that platoon maneuvering will be safe and follow the behavior prescribed by the finite state machines that control vehicles manuevers. It is shown that it is possible to design control laws that keep the state of the platoons inside these safety regions. The results obtained allow one to decouple the controllers for the regulation of the manuevers and the finite state machines that determine their proper sequence in AHS architectures. The overall complexity of the design and verification of the AHS as an hybrid system is therefore greatly reduced.     

队列车辆碰撞严重性及车队排布策略

针对自动驾驶车辆队列发生不可避免碰撞的事故场景,研究以整体碰撞严重性达到最低为目标的车队排布策略.首先根据引发事故的障碍物是否会明显影响领航车运动,将碰撞划分为队内碰撞和队外碰撞.队列几何构型一定时,针对均质化队列发生一维碰撞过程建立理论模型,计入碰撞前车辆对前车紧急制动的感应及自车进行紧急制动的过程,计算并定义时间截...     

Intra-Platoon Collision Behavior during Emergency Operations

SUMMARY

This paper presents current research regarding intra-platoon collision dynamics for rapid decelerations. Measures of ride quality and impact severity are introduced to allow comparisons between different collision scenarios. In this study, the disturbance input to the platoon is assumed to be a rapid braking of the lead vehicle. Several deceleration rates are used to assess the overall platoon behavior and the effect of the intra-platoon collisions on the platoon passengers. The role of the desired headway spacing on preventing the occurrence of intra-platoon collisions and improving rider comfort is discussed.     

智能网联车辆交通流优化对交通安全的改善

为改善常规驾驶车辆交通流追尾碰撞交通安全状况,提出智能网联车辆（Connected and Automated Vehicles,CAV）与常规车辆构成的混合交通流车队稳定性优化控制方法。基于全速度差模型,应用集成速度与加速度的多前车反馈构建CAV跟驰模型,考虑CAV混合交通流车辆空间分布的随机性,将各类型局部车队稳定性作为优化目标,以局部车队头车速度扰动为系统输入,以尾车速度扰动为系统输出,应用经典控制理论领域的传递函数法推导局部车队稳定性约束条件;分析关于平衡态速度与CAV反馈系数的车队稳定域,以各类型局部车队能够在任意平衡态速度下均稳定为控制目标,对CAV反馈系数输出进行优化控制;设计高速公路上匝道交通瓶颈数值仿真试验,在不同CAV比例等多种条件下,分析CAV混合交通流优化控制对交通流车辆追尾碰撞风险的影响。研究结果表明：CAV混合交通流优化控制可降低车辆追尾碰撞风险,在碰撞时间阈值小于2 s时,100%比例的CAV交通流可将交通流的车辆追尾碰撞风险降低85.81%以上;在碰撞时间阈值大于2 s时,追尾碰撞风险可降低48.22%～78.80%。所提优化控制方法可有效降低CAV车队优化控制的复杂性,为大规模CAV背景下的混合交通流优化控制以及车辆追尾碰撞交通安全提升策略提供直接理论参考。     

基于状态空间采样的高速公路智能网联车辆轨迹动态规划

为实现智能网联车辆在高速公路动态行车环境下的轨迹实时规划，提出一种基于状态空间采样的轨迹动态规划方法。首先，以安全性为原则选取主车当前行驶的理想车道。基于Frenet坐标与笛卡尔坐标的转换关系，建立车辆运动横、纵向解耦的独立积分系统。将高速公路常见的行驶状态分为车道保持与定速巡航、变道以及前车跟随3类，预测主车行驶车道并针对3类行驶状态分别设计轨迹终端的目标配置方法。然后，利用多项式函数生成连接初始配置和目标配置的多条待选轨迹。构建考虑轨迹偏离理想车道程度、始末速度变化、规划周期和轨迹舒适性的综合损失函数，结合速度、加速度、曲率检查来评价各条待选轨迹的成本并进行排序。最后，预测车辆的横、纵向运动轨迹并构建一种胶囊形的车辆虚拟安全边界，通过碰撞检测，确定主车的最优轨迹，设置动态规划触发条件及时更新最优轨迹并避免过度规划浪费资源。研究结果表明：提出的算法能满足高速公路场景的动态规划需求；通过对轨迹规划周期、虚拟安全边界、动态规划时间间隔等关键参数的分析与优化，主车的横摆角速度范围稳定在-0.1~0.15 (°)·s^-1，横向加速度范围稳定在-0.16~0.32 m·s^-2，跟踪参考轨迹的最大误差不超过0.022 m，提出的算法能规划出具有高安全性、稳定性和舒适性的轨迹。     

基于轨迹数据的危险驾驶行为识别方法

连续的跟驰行为和换道行为是驾驶行为的主要构成部分,对交通拥挤和交通事故有着重要影响。通过无人机视频拍摄和图像处理方式,提取了曹安公路沿线的2个交叉路口间正常交通流状态下共600条多车高精度轨迹数据。首先,考虑车辆类型对驾驶行为产生直接的影响,分析了大车和小车的车辆轨迹特征变量分布的差异性,包括速度、加速度、碰撞时间倒数、车头时距等,在标记危险驾驶行为的过程中考虑车辆类型的影响。其次,针对不同的车辆类型,利用修正碰撞裕度对跟驰行为和换道行为进行风险性评估,将其划分为安全型和风险型。根据风险型行为发生的顺序以及持续时间,评估驾驶人的整体驾驶状态是否危险,作为危险驾驶行为识别的样本标记。分别利用离散小波变换和统计方法提取车辆轨迹的关键特征参数,为了提高模型识别效率,将关键特征参数进行排序,从而确定最优判别指标;最后,利用轻量梯度提升机（LGBM）算法对危险驾驶行为进行识别,并与随机森林、多层感知器、支持向量机等算法在精度上进行比较。研究结果表明：在上述研究条件下,LGBM算法对危险驾驶行为的理论识别率最高可达93.62%,可以实现基于机器学习算法的危险驾驶行为的高精度自动识别,该结果对于智能驾驶辅助系统的设计、道路交通安全决策的制定具有显著的意义。     

A New Control Approach for Platoon Operations during Vehicle Exit/Entry

A new platoon control concept is introduced, called Back Control, in which the controller of a given vehicle utilizes state information from the lead, preceding, and following vehicles, as well as the vehicle itself. Simulations are carried out on two non-steady state platoon operations - vehicle exit and vehicle entry from a platoon. A previously developed longitudinal controller is utilized as a reference to the proposed Back controller and a ride quality index is used to assess passenger comfort in these simulations. It is shown that the Back controller has advantages over the reference controller in these two operations and that it is therefore worth examining as a candidate controller of vehicular platoons, especially in non-nominal operations.     

A Simplified Framework for String Stability Analysis of Automated Vehicles∗

SUMMARY

Automated vehicles traveling in platoons must exhibit stability both individually and as a group, a property referred to as “string stability”. We propose a new framework for evaluating the longitudinal string stability properties of platoons of automated vehicles. In this framework, the platoon is considered to be a mass-spring-damper system with linear characteristics. The resulting closed-loop representation yields transfer functions and impulse responses that can be analyzed to determine the string stability properties of the platoon. This framework facilitates qualitative comparisons of the effects of various controller characteristics, such as time headway and intervehicle communication, on string stability.     

车路协同下车队避让紧急车辆的换道引导方法

为保证紧急车辆更安全、高效地到达紧急事故现场,基于车路协同系统,提出车队避让紧急车辆的换道引导策略。针对目标车道无车辆、有车辆和有车队3种不同场景,分别提出确保紧急车辆快速通过的协同换道策略。通过协同换道策略引导紧急车辆前方行驶的车队和目标车道的车辆改变速度以调整车辆间距,使其满足换道安全距离,依据换道轨迹规划使车队完成换道,并提出紧急车辆发送紧急避让信号的位置方法,计算当不影响紧急车辆的速度情况下,其发送紧急避让信号时与车队尾车的最短距离。利用SUMO交通仿真软件,实现车路协同环境下3种不同场景车队避让紧急车辆的换道引导,并比较目标车道为车队的场景下,车队换道至目标车队的每个空档中（方式A）和车队换道至目标车队的同一个空档中（方式B）2种不同的换道引导策略。研究结果表明：目标车道有车队的场景下,方式B的协同换道时间更短,发送紧急信号的位置距车队尾车82 m,较方式A的87 m更近,对周围车辆影响更小,因此此场景采用方式B的协同换道策略;在目标车道无车辆、有车辆和有车队3种场景下,紧急车辆分别距车队尾车71,71,82 m时发送紧急避让信号,其可以维持期望速度,验证了最短距离与车辆速度的关系式;与未使用换道引导策略的情况相比,紧急车辆的速度提高,延误减少。     

A Simplified Framework for String Stability Analysis of Automated Vehicles*

Automated vehicles traveling in platoons must exhibit stability both individually and as a group, a property referred to as “string stability”. We propose a new framework for evaluating the longitudinal string stability properties of platoons of automated vehicles. In this framework, the platoon is considered to be a mass-spring-damper system with linear characteristics. The resulting closed-loop representation yields transfer functions and impulse responses that can be analyzed to determine the string stability properties of the platoon. This framework facilitates qualitative comparisons of the effects of various controller characteristics, such as time headway and intervehicle communication, on string stability.     

An optimal model-based trajectory following architecture synthesising the lateral adaptive preview strategy and longitudinal velocity planning for highly automated vehicle

Automated driving has received a broad of attentions from the academia and industry, since it is effective to greatly reduce the severity of potential traffic accidents and achieve the ultimate automobile safety and comfort. This paper presents an optimal model-based trajectory following architecture for highly automated vehicle in its driving tasks such as automated guidance or lane keeping, which includes a velocity-planning module, a steering controller and a velocity-tracking controller. The velocity-planning module considering the optimal time-consuming and passenger comforts simultaneously could generate a smooth velocity profile. The robust sliding mode control (SMC) steering controller with adaptive preview time strategy could not only track the target path well, but also avoid a big lateral acceleration occurred in its path-tracking progress due to a fuzzy-adaptive preview time mechanism introduced. In addition, an SMC controller with input–output linearisation method for velocity tracking is built and validated. Simulation results show this trajectory following architecture are effective and feasible for high automated driving vehicle, comparing with the Driver-in-the-Loop simulations performed by an experienced driver and novice driver, respectively. The simulation results demonstrate that the present trajectory following architecture could plan a satisfying longitudinal speed profile, track the target path well and safely when dealing with different road geometry structure, it ensures a good time efficiency and driving comfort simultaneously.     

双车道公路超车两难区域研究

基于超车行为分析,提出了双车道公路超车行为的两难区域概念,在该区域内超车车辆既无法完成超车动作又不能在避免与对向车辆相撞前安全避让。应用运动学理论建立了下游车队规模、车速、设计车速与两难区域范围以及安全超车视距之间的关系,发现与超越单车的视距要求相比,超越车队所需的安全视距较大,且随着设计车速、下游车队规模以及车速的增大而增大。并发现当流量或车速较大时,两难区域出现的概率较大,且因驾驶者错误估计引发交通事故的机会增多。最后给出了不同下游车队规模条件下安全超车的速度限制及视距要求,为制定安全行车策略以及道路安全管理提供了理论依据。     

Automated Vehicle Merging Maneuver Implementation for AHS

Summary This paper presents a real-time implementation of a general merging algorithm for automated highway systems. A merging control problem is proposed first. A real-time algorithm is then presented, which is used to calculate a smooth reference speed trajectory for the merging vehicle based on the speed of the main lane vehicle. This algorithm can also be applied even when the main lane vehicles change speed. To make the algorithm adapt to different road layouts and to increase safety, a concept of virtual platooning is proposed. It effectively shifts the time of platoon formation forward prior to the start of real merging. Aspects closely related to real-time implementation are discussed, such as the controller adopted, the use of magnetometer based distance measurement and information passing by communication from main lane vehicles. Test results are presented and briefly analyzed.