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A Feedback Linearized Model Predictive Control Strategy for Input-Constrained Self-Driving Cars (2405.01753v1)

Published 2 May 2024 in eess.SY, cs.SY, and math.OC

Abstract: This paper proposes a novel real-time affordable solution to the trajectory tracking control problem for self-driving cars subject to longitudinal and steering angular velocity constraints. To this end, we develop a dual-mode Model Predictive Control (MPC) solution starting from an input-output feedback linearized description of the vehicle kinematics. First, we derive the state-dependent input constraints acting on the linearized model and characterize their worst-case time-invariant inner approximation. Then, a dual-mode MPC is derived to be real-time affordable and ensuring, by design, constraints fulfiLLMent, recursive feasibility, and uniformly ultimate boundedness of the tracking error in an ad-hoc built robust control invariant region. The approach's effectiveness and performance are experimentally validated via laboratory experiments on a Quanser Qcar. The obtained results show that the proposed solution is computationally affordable and with tracking capabilities that outperform two alternative control schemes.

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