Cooperative on-ramp merging control for connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) can effectively improve traffic throughput and vehicle fuel efficiency at highway on-ramp merging bottlenecks. However, in the mixed traffic scenario where CAVs and human-driven vehicles (HDVs) coexist, the uncertain maneuvers of human drivers pose a major challenge to merging control in terms of safety and flexibility. To this end, this paper proposes a hierarchical cooperative on-ramp merging control strategy for CAVs to optimize flexible trajectories with safety guarantees in mixed traffic. First, the on-ramp merging control problem for CAVs is considered in the case of a three-vehicle coordination, resulting in an optimal control problem (OCP) coordinating on-ramp and main-lane CAVs for efficient operation while satisfying multiple safety-critical constraints. Second, a two-level hierarchical control architecture is developed to solve the OCP with mixed state-control constraints. The upper-level planner solves an unconstrained OCP with Pontryagin’s Minimum Principle to calculate an expected merging position, which is embedded in the variable time headway of safe merging constraints in the lower-level controller. Then, the controller converts the nonlinear OCP with safety-critical constraints to a quadratic programing (QP) problem by exploiting Control Barrier Functions (CBFs) and Control Lyapunov Functions (CLFs). By solving the QP efficiently, the time and energy efficient trajectory for each CAV is obtained. In addition, a receding horizon control framework is employed, which enables CAVs to determine flexible merging opportunity and tackle the disturbances caused by HDVs. Finally, comprehensive simulation results show that the proposed cooperative on-ramp merging strategy has potential in enabling merging flexibility, improving traffic efficiency and energy economy in real time.


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    Title :

    Safety-Critical and Flexible Cooperative On-Ramp Merging Control of Connected and Automated Vehicles in Mixed Traffic


    Contributors:
    Liu, Haoji (author) / Zhuang, Weichao (author) / Yin, Guodong (author) / Li, Zhaojian (author) / Cao, Dongpu (author)


    Publication date :

    2023-03-01


    Size :

    5352172 byte




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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