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Unifying Decision Making and Trajectory Planning in Automated Driving through Time-Varying Potential Fields
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David Costa, Francesco Cerrito, Massimo Canale, Carlo Novara
Abstract
This paper proposes a unified decision making and local trajectory planning framework based on Time-Varying Artificial Potential Fields (TVAPFs). The TVAPF explicitly models the predicted motion via bounded uncertainty of dynamic obstacles over the planning horizon, using information from perception and V2X sources when available. TVAPFs are embedded into a finite horizon optimal control problem that jointly selects the driving maneuver and computes a feasible, collision free trajectory. The effectiveness and real-time suitability of the approach are demonstrated through a simulation test in a multi-actor scenario with real road topology, highlighting the advantages of the unified TVAPF-based formulation.
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