Dynamic Conflict Mitigation for Cooperative Driving Control of Intelligent Vehicles

Abstract

The work described in this paper proposes a new dynamic conflict attenuation strategy in driving shared control for intelligent vehicles lane keeping systems (LKS). This strategy takes into account the activity and availability of the driver as well as the external risk and conflict between the driver and the control system in order to manage and adapt the level of assistance in real time. The design of an adaptive shared controller is based on a dynamic multi-objective cost function that changes according to the level of assistance. Based on Lyapunov stability arguments, the global asymptotical stability of the closed-loop control system with the adaptive cost function and the variation in vehicle speed is proven and an LMI optimization is used to formulate the control design. The simulation results, conducted with the SHERPA dynamic car simulator under real-world driving situations, for different scenarios show the importance of adapting the controller in real time in order to decrease the conflict between the driver and the lane keeping system and to ensure the safety of the vehicle as well as to increase the confidence and acceptability of the driver.