Real-time MPC with Control Barrier Functions for Autonomous Driving using Safety Enhanced Collocation
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| author | Allamaa, Jean Pierre Patrinos, Panagiotis Ohtsuka, Toshiyuki Son, Tong Duy |
| author_facet | Allamaa, Jean Pierre Patrinos, Panagiotis Ohtsuka, Toshiyuki Son, Tong Duy |
| contents | The autonomous driving industry is continuously dealing with safety-critical scenarios, and nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) is a powerful control strategy for handling such situations. However, standard safety constraints are not scalable and require a long NMPC horizon. Moreover, the adoption of NMPC in the automotive industry is limited by the heavy computation of numerical optimization routines. To address those issues, this paper presents a real-time capable NMPC for automated driving in urban environments, using control barrier functions (CBFs). Furthermore, the designed NMPC is based on a novel collocation transcription approach, named RESAFE/COL, that allows to reduce the number of optimization variables while still guaranteeing the continuous time (nonlinear) inequality constraints satisfaction, through regional convex hull approximation. RESAFE/COL is proven to be 5 times faster than multiple shooting and more tractable for embedded hardware without a decrease in the performance, nor accuracy and safety of the numerical solution. We validate our NMPC-CBF with RESAFE/COL on digital twins of the vehicle and the urban environment and show the safe controller's ability to improve crash avoidance by 91\%. Supplementary visual material can be found at https://youtu.be/_EnbfYwljp4. |
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| spellingShingle | Real-time MPC with Control Barrier Functions for Autonomous Driving using Safety Enhanced Collocation Allamaa, Jean Pierre Patrinos, Panagiotis Ohtsuka, Toshiyuki Son, Tong Duy Systems and Control Optimization and Control The autonomous driving industry is continuously dealing with safety-critical scenarios, and nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) is a powerful control strategy for handling such situations. However, standard safety constraints are not scalable and require a long NMPC horizon. Moreover, the adoption of NMPC in the automotive industry is limited by the heavy computation of numerical optimization routines. To address those issues, this paper presents a real-time capable NMPC for automated driving in urban environments, using control barrier functions (CBFs). Furthermore, the designed NMPC is based on a novel collocation transcription approach, named RESAFE/COL, that allows to reduce the number of optimization variables while still guaranteeing the continuous time (nonlinear) inequality constraints satisfaction, through regional convex hull approximation. RESAFE/COL is proven to be 5 times faster than multiple shooting and more tractable for embedded hardware without a decrease in the performance, nor accuracy and safety of the numerical solution. We validate our NMPC-CBF with RESAFE/COL on digital twins of the vehicle and the urban environment and show the safe controller's ability to improve crash avoidance by 91\%. Supplementary visual material can be found at https://youtu.be/_EnbfYwljp4. |
| title | Real-time MPC with Control Barrier Functions for Autonomous Driving using Safety Enhanced Collocation |
| topic | Systems and Control Optimization and Control |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.06648 |