Autonomous Overtaking Using Model Predictive Control

Sammanfattning: For the past couple of years researchers around theworld have tried to develop fully autonomous vehicles. One of theproblems that they have to solve is how to navigate in a dynamicworld with ever-changing variables. This project was initiated tolook into one scenario of the path planning problem; overtakinga human driven vehicle. Model Predictive Control (MPC) hashistorically been used in systems with slower dynamics but withadvancements in computation it can now be used in systems withfaster dynamics. In this project autonomous vehicles controlledby MPC were simulated in Python based on the kinematic bicyclemodel. Constraints were posed on the overtaking vehicle suchthat the two vehicles would not collide. Results show that anovertake, that keeps a proper distance to the other vehicle andfollows common traffic laws, is possible in certain scenarios.