Safety-Aware and Data-Driven Predictive Control for Connected Automated Vehicles at a Mixed Traffic Signalized Intersection

Abstract

A typical urban signalized intersection poses significant modeling and control challenges in a mixed traffic environment consisting of connected automated vehicles (CAVs) and human-driven vehicles (HDVs). In this paper, we address the problem of deriving safe trajectories for CAVs in a mixed traffic environment that prioritizes rear-end collision avoidance when the preceding HDVs approach the yellow and red signal phases of the intersection. We present a predictive control framework that employs a recursive least squares algorithm to approximate in real time the driving behavior of the preceding HDVs and then uses this approximation to derive safety-aware trajectory in a finite horizon. We validate the effectiveness of our proposed framework through numerical simulation and analyze the robustness of the control framework.