Individualizable Vehicle Lane Keeping Assistance System Design: A Linear-Programming-Based Model Predictive Control Approach

Model predictive control (MPC), a control technique that can systematically and explicitly cope with system constraints, has become increasingly prevalent in the field of automotive engineering. Respecting the advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) design, the MPC has found its applications in various kinds of ground vehicular lane-keeping assistance systems (LKAS). In this paper, an MPC-based LKAS is synthesized by leveraging the linear programming (LP) methodology. Compared to the conventional MPC-based LKAS that is based on quadratic programming (QP), the LP alternative is less computationally demanding, which is desired for commercial vehicular electronic control units. Besides, the LP scheme enables the designer to formulate the MPC' s performance criterion in the sense of L-1/L-infinity norms, which differs from the QP's L-2-norm-based measure. The proposed LP-based MPC-LKAS is examined in CarSim-Simulink joint simulations and its performance is compared with a QP-based solution. Copyright (c) 2022 The Authors. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0)