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Automotive Engineering ›› 2023, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (12): 2318-2329.doi: 10.19562/j.chinasae.qcgc.2023.12.014

Special Issue: 底盘&动力学&整车性能专题2023年

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Research on Active Obstacle Avoidance Control of Off-axis Trailing Vehicle on Unstructured Road

Dandan Hu,Pengfei Yin,Guochen Niu(),Jinju Zhao   

  1. Robotices Institute,Civil Aviation University of China,Tianjin  300300
  • Received:2022-05-20 Revised:2022-06-20 Online:2023-12-25 Published:2023-12-21
  • Contact: Guochen Niu E-mail:niu_guochen@139.com

Abstract:

To achieve active obstacle avoidance of off axis-towed vehicles on unstructured road, an active obstacle avoidance controller based on model predictive control (MPC) without the support of global path and path tracker is proposed. Firstly, a kinematic model of the towing system for coupling fuller trailer based on rigid-body kinematics and incomplete restraints is established, and its motion characteristics are analyzed and verified. Secondly, according to the kinematic model of the trailer system, the prediction model of the off-axle trailer vehicle is established. Finally, a penalty function for turning collision avoidance without global path support is proposed, and an objective function is designed for the safety and stability of the trailer system, which is optimized by a nonlinear solver, with the optimal output discrete control sequence applied to the trailer system. Simulation and real vehicle experiments show that the active obstacle avoidance controller of the off-axis towing system can make the towing vehicle avoid obstacles safely on the premise of meeting the shear collision constraint. Besides, lateral error and heading error of obstacle avoidance path and shortest non-obstacle avoidance path of full trailer can be reduced.

Key words: off-axle type trailer, unstructured road, MPC, active obstacle avoidance, full trailer