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Automotive Engineering ›› 2023, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (3): 341-349.doi: 10.19562/j.chinasae.qcgc.2023.03.001

Special Issue: 智能网联汽车技术专题-规划&决策2023年

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A Hybrid A* Path Planning Method Based on DBSCAN and Dichotomy

Manjiang Hu1,2,Binjie Mou1,Zeyu Yang1,2(),Yougang Bian1,2,Xiaohui Qin1,2,Biao Xu1,2   

  1. 1.College of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering,Hunan University,State Key Laboratory of Advanced Design and Manufacturing for Vehicle Body,Changsha  410082
    2.Wuxi Intelligent Control Research Institute of Hunan University,Wuxi  214115
  • Received:2022-10-19 Revised:2022-11-02 Online:2023-03-25 Published:2023-03-22
  • Contact: Zeyu Yang E-mail:yangzeyu@wion.org

Abstract:

In the unstructured scene with multiple obstacles, the traditional hybrid A* algorithm has the problems of low computational efficiency and poor path smoothness. For these problems, this paper proposes a hybrid A* path planning method based on the density-based clustering (DBSCAN) and the dichotomy. Firstly, based on the DBSCAN algorithm, an obstacle clustering method is designed to simplify the multi-obstacle unstructured scene, so as to avoid invalid node expansion of the hybrid A* algorithm near the U-shaped obstacle group, and to effectively improve the efficiency of the algorithm. Then, a dichotomy-based state node expansion strategy is proposed, which can search a smoother path without significantly increasing the computational complexity of the hybrid A* algorithm. Finally, simulation is performed on MATLAB. The results show that in the multi-obstacle unstructured scene, the improved hybrid A* algorithm proposed in this paper can significantly improve the computational efficiency and the path smoothness.

Key words: automatic driving, path planning, hybrid A* algorithm, DBSCAN, dichotomy