无需预设轨迹,让自动驾驶车在极限状态下安全高速行驶。
Spatial Envelope MPC: High Performance Driving without a Reference
- 用可微分的驾驶包络模型替代参考轨迹,直接优化安全可行区域。
- 结合强化学习与优化,实现对极限驾驶区域的逼近与规划。
- 适用于竞速、避障、越野等复杂场景,实测表现优异。
本文提出一种基于包络的模型预测控制(MPC)新框架,使自动驾驶车辆在无预设参考轨迹的情况下仍能实现高性能驾驶。在高动态极限驾驶中,传统基于参考轨迹的规划控制方法难以应对真实环境约束。为此,本文设计了一种计算高效的车辆动力学模型,并提出连续可微的数学表达式以精确刻画完整的可驾驶包络。该模型使动态可行性与安全性约束可直接融入统一的规划控制框架,无需依赖预设参考。针对包络规划难题,采用强化学习与优化相结合的方法求解。通过仿真与实车实验验证,该框架在竞速、紧急避撞和非铺装路面导航等任务中均表现出高性能,展现出良好的可扩展性与广泛适用性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
This paper presents a novel envelope based model predictive control (MPC) framework designed to enable autonomous vehicles to handle high performance driving across a wide range of scenarios without a predefined reference. In high performance autonomous driving, safe operation at the vehicle's dynamic limits requires a real time planning and control framework capable of accounting for key vehicle dynamics and environmental constraints when following a predefined reference trajectory is suboptimal or even infeasible. State of the art planning and control frameworks, however, are predominantly reference based, which limits their performance in such situations. To address this gap, this work first introduces a computationally efficient vehicle dynamics model tailored for optimization based control and a continuously differentiable mathematical formulation that accurately captures the entire drivable envelope. This novel model and formulation allow for the direct integration of dynamic feasibility and safety constraints into a unified planning and control framework, thereby removing the necessity for predefined references. The challenge of envelope planning, which refers to maximally approximating the safe drivable area, is tackled by combining reinforcement learning with optimization techniques. The framework is validated through both simulations and real world experiments, demonstrating its high performance across a variety of tasks, including racing, emergency collision avoidance and off road navigation. These results highlight the framework's scalability and broad applicability across a diverse set of scenarios.
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