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Optimal Lane-Free Crossing of CAVs through Intersections

Mahdi Amouzadi·Mobolaji O. Orisatoki·Arash M. Dizqah
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Connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs), unlike conventional cars, will utilise the whole space of intersections and cross in a lane-free order. This paper formulates such a lane-free crossing of intersections as a multi-objective optimal control problem (OCP) that minimises the overall crossing time, as well as the energy consumption of CAVs. The proposed OCP is convexified by applying the dual problem theory to the constraints that avoid collision of vehicles with each other and with road boundaries. The resulting OCP is smooth and solvable by gradient-based algorithms. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm reduces the crossing time by an average of 40% and 41% as compared to, respectively, the state-of-the-art reservation-based and lane-free methods, whilst consuming the same amount of energy. Furthermore, it is shown that the resulting crossing time of the proposed algorithm is i) fixed to a constant value regardless of the number of CAVs, and ii) very close to its theoretical limit.

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Mahdi Amouzadi, Mobolaji O. Orisatoki, Arash M. Dizqah. 2022-04-14. Optimal Lane-Free Crossing of CAVs through Intersections. https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.04156

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