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Automotive Engineering ›› 2024, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (2): 201-210.doi: 10.19562/j.chinasae.qcgc.2024.02.002

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A Cooperative Lane Change Strategy for Intelligent Connected Vehicles Oriented to Mandatory Lane Change Scenarios

Shurui Guan1,Keqiang Li1,Junyu Zhou1,Jia Shi1,Weiwei Kong2,Yugong Luo1()   

  1. 1.School of Vehicle and Mobility,Tsinghua University,State Key Laboratory of Automotive Safety and Energy,Beijing  100084
    2.Engineering College,China Agricultural University,Beijing  100083
  • Received:2023-06-29 Revised:2023-07-28 Online:2024-02-25 Published:2024-02-23
  • Contact: Yugong Luo E-mail:lyg@tsinghua.edu.cn

Abstract:

Collaborative lane change technology for intelligent connected vehicles has been widely studied, but existing strategies can hardly solve the problem of vehicle collaboration in mandatory lane change scenarios or may cause notable impact on upstream traffic. For mandatory lane change scenarios demand, a two-stage cooperative lane change strategy considering theoretical minimal safety space is proposed in this paper. Firstly, the control architecture for a two-vehicle cooperative lane change system is proposed and a collaborative lane change scheme is developed for mandatory lane change scenarios. Then, a two-stage receding-horizon trajectory planning strategy of spacing adjustment and collaborative lane change is designed, where the theoretical minimum safe distance is embedded as a constraint of spacing adjustment stage, to solve the problem of conservative spacing strategies in existing research. Finally, numerical simulation and hardware in-loop experiments are performed to verify the effectiveness, advantages and computational real-time performance of the proposed strategy. The results show that the proposed strategy can effectively improve the success rate of lane change, reduce the negative traffic impact while ensuring lane change safety, and is also applicable in real time computing and communication environment of actual edge cloud platform.

Key words: intelligent and connected vehicles, cooperative lane change, mandatory lane change, trajectory planning