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Automotive Engineering ›› 2024, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (3): 418-430.doi: 10.19562/j.chinasae.qcgc.2024.03.005

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Research on Decision-Making and Planning Method for Intelligent Highway Lane-Changing System for Mass Production

Yichao He1,Shengjie Kou1,He Tian1,Hao Li1,Yong Lu1,2()   

  1. 1.DIAS Automotive Electronic Systems Co. , Ltd. , Shanghai 201206
    2.School of Vehicle and Mobility, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
  • Received:2023-08-01 Revised:2023-09-20 Online:2024-03-25 Published:2024-03-18
  • Contact: Yong Lu E-mail:Luyong02@saicmotor.com

Abstract:

The auto-lane change on highways is an important feature of the Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS). The current algorithms are unable to balance lane-changing safety and smoothness under low computational hardware conditions. To solve the problem, a decision-making and planning method for auto lane-changing system on highways is proposed in this paper. Lane-changing decisions are made by dividing the lane changing collision risk into hierarchical danger zones, followed by the implementation of decoupled lateral and longitudinal planning. In the lateral planning, a two-stage fifth-order polynomial trajectory planning is designed to enhance safety and smoothness during the lane changing process. In the longitudinal planning, a PID-like algorithm is employed to enhance real-time planning for cruising conditions, while the Model Predictive Control (MPC) based on synchronized predictive time domains is employed for following conditions. By associating the lateral and longitudinal planning times to improve lane-changing smoothness, the design of cost function reduces computational complexity to meet low resource requirements. Through real vehicle comparison tests, this method has been validated to have high level of safety, smoothness, and user experience in various highway lane changing scenarios. Additionally, comparison results of static area storage and peak stack storage tests for the algorithm's resource utilization show a low hardware resource occupancy rate, meeting the requirements of low-computing-power controllers in terms of resource utilization.

Key words: intelligent lane-changing system, decoupled planning, two-stage lane-changing, model predictive control, synchronized time domain, mass-production