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Automotive Engineering ›› 2025, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (2): 248-258.doi: 10.19562/j.chinasae.qcgc.2025.02.005

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A Tuner of Trajectory Control Parameters and the Construction Method of its Training Set

Kegang Zhao,Weilin Ou,Zheng Zhang,Zhihao Liang()   

  1. School of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering,South China University of Technology,Guangzhou 510641
  • Received:2024-07-24 Revised:2024-09-02 Online:2025-02-25 Published:2025-02-21
  • Contact: Zhihao Liang E-mail:meliangzh2021@mail.scut.edu.cn

Abstract:

To improve the control accuracy of intelligent vehicle tracking controllers in variable operating conditions, controllers generally use multidimensional control parameter tables based on operating condition characteristics. When engineers manually adjust multidimensional control parameter tables, the workload is large and the tuning effect is not satisfactory. In order to enable the tracking controller of dynamic parameter adjustment capability, in this paper a vehicle speed and curvature adaptive parameter tuner is proposed based on radial basis function (RBF) neural network. Besides, a training set construction method based on Monte Carlo Probabilistic Inference for Learning Control (MC-PILCO) algorithm is proposed to address the problems of excessive real vehicle testing interactions and heavy tuning workload encountered during the training of tuner. By grouping typical operating conditions based on vehicle speed in the construction process of the training set, all different curvature working conditions within each vehicle speed working condition group are trained using the dynamic model trained on the data collected from tracking the straight-line scene at that vehicle speed for parameter tuning. By sharing the model, the number of real vehicle interactions is reduced. Real vehicle experiments show that the parameter adaptive tracking controller proposed in this paper has better lateral trajectory-tracking performance compared to controllers with fixed parameters under medium and low speed conditions.

Key words: trajectory tracking control, RBF neural network, multidimensional control parameters, training set construction, MC-PILCO