Artículo
Context-dependent reconfiguration of autonomous vehicles in mixed traffic
Autor/es | Horcas Aguilera, José Miguel
Monteil, Julian Bouroche, Mélanie Pinto, Mónica Fuentes, Lidia Clarke, Siobhán |
Departamento | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos |
Fecha de publicación | 2018 |
Fecha de depósito | 2021-06-07 |
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Resumen | Human drivers naturally adapt their behaviour depending on the traffic conditions, such as the
current weather and road type. Autonomous vehicles need to do the same, in a way that is both
safe and efficient in traffic ... Human drivers naturally adapt their behaviour depending on the traffic conditions, such as the current weather and road type. Autonomous vehicles need to do the same, in a way that is both safe and efficient in traffic composed of both conventional and autonomous vehicles. In this paper, we demonstrate the applicability of a reconfigurable vehicle controller agent for autonomous vehicles that adapts the parameters of a used car-following model at runtime, so as to maintain a high degree of traffic quality (efficiency and safety) under different weather conditions.We follow a dynamic software product line approach to model the variability of the car-following model parameters, context changes and traffic quality, and generate specific configurations for each particular context. Under realistic conditions, autonomous vehicles have only a very local knowledge of other vehicles' variables.We investigate a distributed model predictive controller agent for autonomous vehicles to estimate their behavioural parameters at runtime, based on their available knowledge of the system.We show that autonomous vehicles with the proposed reconfigurable controller agent lead to behaviour similar to that achieved by human drivers, depending on the context. |
Agencias financiadoras | Junta de Andalucía Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (MICINN). España |
Identificador del proyecto | MAGIC P12-TIC1814
HADAS TIN2015-64841-R |
Cita | Horcas Aguilera, J.M., Monteil, J., Bouroche, M., Pinto, M., Fuentes, L. y Clarke, S. (2018). Context-dependent reconfiguration of autonomous vehicles in mixed traffic. Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, 30 (4) |
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