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    Published on: February 10, 2011

    Area of Science:

    • Robotics and Control Systems
    • Autonomous Vehicle Navigation
    • Machine Learning for Control

    Background:

    • Autonomous ground vehicle platoons (AGVPs) face challenges in path following due to unknown dynamics.
    • Accurate system models are often unavailable, hindering traditional control approaches.
    • Minimizing lateral offset and heading error is crucial for safe and efficient platooning.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop a novel data-driven control scheme for heterogeneous AGVPs.
    • To address the path following problem for AGVPs with unknown dynamics.
    • To formulate the control objective as an inhomogeneous linear quadratic tracking (LQT) problem.

    Main Methods:

    • A model-based iterative learning algorithm using matrix decomposition was proposed.
    • The algorithm was extended to a data-driven implementation with a double-layer integral structure.
    • The persistence-of-excitation (PE) condition was relaxed to the interval excitation (IE) condition.

    Main Results:

    • The proposed method avoids the need for an initial stabilizing control policy and guarantees convergence speed.
    • It circumvents numerical issues associated with small discount factors in LQT problems.
    • The algorithm iteratively solves the optimal LQT controller with reduced computational complexity and no historical data storage.

    Conclusions:

    • The novel data-driven control scheme effectively addresses the path following problem for AGVPs with unknown dynamics.
    • The method demonstrates feasibility and superiority over existing approaches through simulations.
    • This research contributes to safer and more efficient autonomous vehicle coordination.