Autonomous Overtaking Maneuver Design based on Follow the Gap Method

Munire Demir, Volkan Sezer

2019

Abstract

This paper proposes a solution for one of the most important components of autonomous driving: "overtaking maneuver". Follow the Gap method (FGM) is oneof the most popular obstacle avoidance algorithms and directly obtains steering angle from position of the obstacles around. This paper is the first study using FGM to solve the overtaking problem. Different from previous studies where a trajectory is planned and then a controller is designed to track it; we use FGM for motion planning and control together. This paper focuses on overtaking maneuver in a challenging environment like highway traffic where the safety and fast response are the key factors. After we adapt the FGM to overtaking problem, we compare it with an existing overtaking method X-sin functions from literature. Since X-sin functions method requires a path tracker (controller), Stanley method is combined with X-sin functions. At the end of this work, we show several advantages of FGM comparing to the X-sin functions based overtaking approach.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Demir M. and Sezer V. (2019). Autonomous Overtaking Maneuver Design based on Follow the Gap Method.In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO, ISBN 978-989-758-380-3, pages 295-302. DOI: 10.5220/0007923502950302

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icinco19,
author={Munire Demir and Volkan Sezer},
title={Autonomous Overtaking Maneuver Design based on Follow the Gap Method},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO,},
year={2019},
pages={295-302},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007923502950302},
isbn={978-989-758-380-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO,
TI - Autonomous Overtaking Maneuver Design based on Follow the Gap Method
SN - 978-989-758-380-3
AU - Demir M.
AU - Sezer V.
PY - 2019
SP - 295
EP - 302
DO - 10.5220/0007923502950302