Steer-by-wire technology enables vehicle safety systems to share control with a driver through augmentation of the driver's steering commands. Advances in sensing technologies empower these systems further with real-time information about the surrounding environment. Leveraging these advancements in vehicle actuation and sensing, the authors present a shared control framework for obstacle avoidance and stability control using two safe driving envelopes. One of these envelopes is defined by the vehicle handling limits, whereas the other is defined by spatial limitations imposed by lane boundaries and obstacles. A model predictive control (MPC) scheme determines at each time step if the current driver command allows for a safe vehicle trajectory within these two envelopes, intervening only when such a trajectory does not exist. In this way, the controller shares control with the driver in a minimally invasive manner while avoiding obstacles and preventing loss of control. The optimal control problem underlying the controller is inherently nonconvex but is solved as a set of convex problems allowing for reliable real-time implementation. This approach is validated on an experimental vehicle working with human drivers to negotiate obstacles in a low friction environment.


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    Title :

    Shared Steering Control Using Safe Envelopes for Obstacle Avoidance and Vehicle Stability


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    Publication date :

    2016-02-01


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    1448588 byte




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English





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