Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) have the potential to revolutionize road transportation in terms of safety and efficiency, offering important societal, economic, and environmental benefits. In this work, we harness CAV capabilities, such as seamless connectivity and fine-grained control to safely and efficiently coordinate a set of CAVs crossing an unsignalized intersection. Coordinated control is achieved by generating an acceleration profile for each CAV to simultaneously optimize fuel consumption and travel time. As the resulting problem is non-convex and challenging to solve, we design a novel centralized solution approach. First, we construct a relaxed reformulation of the problem by ignoring certain safety constraints to eliminate interdependence between the trajectories of CAVs traveling in the same lane. Because the relaxed problem is still non-convex, we develop a custom convex-concave procedure that yields the travel time of each CAV to traverse the intersection without lateral collisions. Finally, the derived travel times are utilized to construct collision-free trajectories for all CAVs using convex optimization. Elaborating on principles from the centralized approach, we also introduce a decentralized scheme that solves the problem on a vehicle-by-vehicle basis. Extensive simulation results substantiate the effectiveness of the proposed solution approaches in terms of solution quality and execution speed. Simulation results also highlight the importance of optimizing the trade-off between travel time and fuel consumption as small sacrifices in travel time lead to substantial fuel savings. Finally, simulation results indicate that the simultaneous coordination of a set of CAVs yields significant performance benefits compared to decentralized control.


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    Title :

    Real-Time Optimization of Fuel-Consumption and Travel-Time of CAVs for Cooperative Intersection Crossing


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    Publication date :

    2023-01-01


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    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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