This paper proposes and evaluates a new safety concept called backup plan safety for path planning of autonomous vehicles under mission uncertainty using model predictive control (MPC). Backup plan safety is defined as the ability to complete an alternative mission when the primary mission is aborted. To include this new safety concept in control problems, we formulate a feasibility maximization problem aiming to maximize the feasibility of the primary and alternative missions. The feasibility maximization problem is based on multi-objective MPC, where each objective (cost function) is associated with a different mission and balanced by a weight vector. Furthermore, the feasibility maximization problem incorporates additional control input horizons toward the alternative missions on top of the control input horizon toward the primary mission, denoted as multihorizon inputs, to evaluate the cost for each mission. We develop the backup plan constrained MPC algorithm, which designs the weight vector that ensures asymptotic stability of the closed-loop system, and generates the optimal control input by solving the feasibility maximization problem with computational efficiency. The performance of the proposed algorithm is validated through simulations of an unmanned aerial vehicle path planning problem.


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    Title :

    Backup Plan Constrained Model Predictive Control with Guaranteed Stability


    Contributors:
    Tao, Ran (author) / Kim, Hunmin (author) / Yoon, Hyung-Jin (author) / Wan, Wenbin (author) / Hovakimyan, Naira (author) / Sha, Lui (author) / Voulgaris, Petros (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2023-10-18


    Size :

    14 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English






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