Determining the Nonexistence of Evasive Trajectories for Collision Avoidance Systems

Sebastian Sontges, Matthias Althoff

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Abstract

It is of utmost importance for automatic collision avoidance systems to correctly evaluate the risk of a current situation and constantly decide, if and what kind of evasive maneuver must be initiated. Most motion planning algorithms find such maneuver by searching a deterministic or random subset of the state space or input space. These approaches can be designed to be complete in the sense that they converge to a feasible solution as sampling is made denser. However, they are not suitable to determine whether a solution exists. In this paper, we present an approach which overapproximates the reachable set of the host vehicle considering workspace obstacles. Thus, it provides an upper bound of the solution set and it can report if no solution exists. Furthermore, the calculated set can be used for guiding the search of an underlying planning algorithm to find a solution as each trajectory of the host vehicle is ensured to be contained within this set.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2015 IEEE 18th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems
Subtitle of host publicationSmart Mobility for Safety and Sustainability, ITSC 2015
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages956-961
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781467365956, 9781467365956, 9781467365956, 9781467365956
DOIs
StatePublished - 30 Oct 2015
Event18th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, ITSC 2015 - Gran Canaria, Spain
Duration: 15 Sep 201518 Sep 2015

Publication series

NameIEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Proceedings, ITSC
Volume2015-October

Conference

Conference18th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, ITSC 2015
Country/TerritorySpain
CityGran Canaria
Period15/09/1518/09/15

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