Abstract
Automated emergency collision avoidance (CA) technology has made tremendous progresses in recent years. However, the existing CA approaches, either braking or steering based, cannot handle well the extremely emergency CA scenarios with limited space and time. This is a research gap to be bridged before the zero-fatality vision of road traffic, namely Vision Zero, can be realized. To further extend the safety limits of vehicles, especially that of automated vehicles in future, we propose a drifting-based CA approach that adopts an aggressive, but controllable, over-steering maneuver. To this end, first the trajectory planning of drifting is formulated and solved as a constrained optimal control problem, which considers vehicle dynamics, actuator limits and collision constraints. Then the knowledge of the three CA approaches’ capability limits is obtained and used for CA decision. Given a planned trajectory, a feedback linearization based controller is further designed to complete the drifting maneuver. Finally, using a real vehicle with by-wire actuators, a series of simulations and road tests are carried out. Results show that our proposed drifting-based algorithm can successfully fulfill agile CA tasks in extreme conditions. With further improvements, this preliminary and conceptual work may contribute as a promising complement to current active safety technologies.
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