Efficient and Interaction-Aware Trajectory Planning for Autonomous Vehicles with Particle Swarm Optimization

Song, Lin, Isele, David, Hovakimyan, Naira, Bae, Sangjae

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence 

Abstract-- This paper introduces a novel numerical approach to achieving smooth lane-change trajectories in autonomous driving scenarios. The generation of smooth and dynamically feasible trajectories for the lane change maneuver is facilitated by combining polynomial curve fitting with particle propagation, which can account for vehicle dynamics. The proposed planning algorithm is capable of determining feasible trajectories with real-time computation capability. The simulation results validate the efficacy and effectiveness of our proposed approach. One example of this is Neural I. INTRODUCTION Network Model Predictive Control (NNMPC) [11,12], which We consider motion planning for autonomous vehicles in attempts to solve merging in dense traffic by combining highly dense traffic scenarios, as depicted in Figure 1.