Energy-efficient Merging of Connected and Automated Vehicles using Control Barrier Functions
Highway merges present difficulties for human drivers and automated vehicles due to incomplete situational awareness and a need for a structured (precedence, order) environment, respectively. In this paper, an unstructured merge algorithm is presented for connected and automated vehicles. There is neither precedence nor established passing order through the merge point. The algorithm relies on Control Barrier Functions for safety (collision avoidance) and for coordination that arises from exponential instability of stall-equilibria in the inter-agent space. A Monte Carlo simulation comparison to a first-in-first-out approach shows improvement in traffic flow and a significant energy efficiency benefit.
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