Study on Robust Lateral Controller for Differential GPS-Based Autonomous Vehicles

Autor: Kyoung Kwan Ahn, Hyung Gyu Park, Myeong-Kwan Park, Seok-Hee Lee
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing. 19:367-376
ISSN: 2005-4602
2234-7593
DOI: 10.1007/s12541-018-0044-9
Popis: Recently, technological advancements in autonomous vehicle development have continued to accelerate. In this paper, we propose a lateral controller and navigation algorithm for autonomous vehicles based on the Differential Global Positioning System (DGPS), core technology of autonomous vehicles. In this study, an H-infinity (H∞) controller was designed lateral controller to ensure nominal safety and robustness against noise, external disturbances and structural and non-structural errors in vehicle modeling. Meanwhile, the “pure pursuit” approach which geometrically follows a path was employed as a path-tracking technique for the proposed navigation algorithm. A vehicle modeling simulation was conducted to evaluate the performance of the proposed method using a twodegrees- of-freedom linear model. The lateral H∞ controller and navigation algorithm were applied to an actual vehicle, Their performances were evaluated by comparing the path tracking error at various speeds of autonomous vehicles with that of the proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller.
Databáze: OpenAIRE