High-speed autonomous navigation system for heavy vehicles

This paper presents techniques for GPS based autonomous navigation of heavy vehicles at high speed. The control system has two main functions: vehicle position estimation and generation of the steering commands for the vehicle to follow a given path autonomously. Position estimation is based on fusi...

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Autores: Rodríguez Castaño, Ángel, Heredia Benot, Guillermo, Ollero Baturone, Aníbal
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión enviada para evaluación y publicación
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/71395
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/11441/71395
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asoc.2016.02.026
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Autonomous vehicles
Navigation
Heavy vehicles
Descripción
Sumario:This paper presents techniques for GPS based autonomous navigation of heavy vehicles at high speed. The control system has two main functions: vehicle position estimation and generation of the steering commands for the vehicle to follow a given path autonomously. Position estimation is based on fusion of measurements from a carrier-phase differential GPS system and odometric sensors using fuzzy logic. A Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy controller is used for steering commands generation, to cope with different road geometry and vehicle velocity. The presented system has been implemented in a 13 tons truck, and fully tested in very demanding conditions, i.e. high velocity and large curvature variations in paved and unpaved roads.