Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs) represent a growing area of study in robotics and automotive research. Their potential benefits of increased traffic flow, reduced on-road accident, and improved fuel economy make them an attractive option. While some autonomous features such as Adaptive Cruise Control and Lane Keep Assist are already integrated into consumer vehicles, they are limited in scope and require innovation to realize fully autonomous vehicles. This work addresses the design problems of perception and planning in CAVs. A decentralized sensor fusion system is designed using Multi-target tracking to identify targets within a vehicle's field of view, enumerate each target with the lane it occupies, and highlight the most important object (MIO) for Adaptive cruise control. Its performance is tested using the Optimal Sub-pattern Assignment (OSPA) metric and correct assignment rate of the MIO. The system has an average accuracy assigning the MIO of 98%. The rest of this work considers the coordination of multiple CAVs from a multi-agent motion planning perspective. A centralized planning algorithm is applied to a space similar to a traffic intersection and is demonstrated empirically to be twice as fast as existing multi-agent planners., making it suitable for real-time planning environments. / Master of Science / Connected and Automated Vehicles are an emerging area of research that involve integrating computational components to enable autonomous driving. This work considers two of the major challenges in this area of research. The first half of this thesis considers how to design a perception system in the vehicle that can correctly track other vehicles and assess their relative importance in the environment. A sensor fusion system is designed which incorporates information from different sensor types to form a list of relevant target objects. The rest of this work considers the high-level problem of coordination between autonomous vehicles. A planning algorithm which plans the paths of multiple autonomous vehicles that is guaranteed to prevent collisions and is empirically faster than existing planning methods is demonstrated.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:VTETD/oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/98812 |
| Date | 09 June 2020 |
| Creators | Mangette, Clayton John |
| Contributors | Electrical Engineering, Tokekar, Pratap, Williams, Ryan K., Nelson, Douglas J. |
| Publisher | Virginia Tech |
| Source Sets | Virginia Tech Theses and Dissertation |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | ETD, application/pdf |
| Rights | In Copyright, http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
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