An Integrated Framework of Decision Making and Motion Planning for Autonomous Vehicles Considering Social Behaviors

Peng Hang, Chen Lv, Chao Huang, Jiacheng Cai, Zhongxu Hu, Yang Xing

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Abstract

This paper presents a novel integrated approach to deal with the decision making and motion planning for lane-change maneuvers of autonomous vehicle (AV) considering social behaviors of surrounding traffic occupants. Reflected by driving styles and intentions of surrounding vehicles, the social behaviors are taken into consideration during the modelling process. Then, the Stackelberg Game theory is applied to solve the decision-making, which is formulated as a non-cooperative game problem. Besides, potential field is adopted in the motion planning model, which uses different potential functions to describe surrounding vehicles with different behaviors and road constraints. Then, Model Predictive Control (MPC) is utilized to predict the state and trajectory of the autonomous vehicle. Finally, the decision-making and motion planning is then integrated into a constrained multi-objective optimization problem. Three testing scenarios considering different social behaviors of surrounding vehicles are carried out to validate the performance of the proposed approach. Testing results show that the integrated approach is able to address different social interactions with other traffic participants, and make proper and safe decisions and planning for autonomous vehicles, demonstrating its feasibility and effectiveness.

Original languageEnglish
Article number9271859
Pages (from-to)14458-14469
Number of pages12
JournalIEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
Volume69
Issue number12
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2020
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • autonomous vehicle
  • Decision-making
  • game theory
  • motion planning
  • potential field
  • social behaviors

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Automotive Engineering
  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Applied Mathematics

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