Autonomous vehicles on the edge: A survey on autonomous vehicle racing

J Betz, H Zheng, A Liniger, U Rosolia… - IEEE Open Journal …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The rising popularity of self-driving cars has led to the emergence of a new research field in
recent years: Autonomous racing. Researchers are developing software and hardware for …

Minimum curvature trajectory planning and control for an autonomous race car

A Heilmeier, A Wischnewski… - Vehicle System …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
This paper shows a software stack capable of planning a minimum curvature trajectory for
an autonomous race car on the basis of an occupancy grid map and introduces a controller …

Tum autonomous motorsport: An autonomous racing software for the indy autonomous challenge

J Betz, T Betz, F Fent, M Geisslinger… - Journal of Field …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
For decades, motorsport has been an incubator for innovations in the automotive sector and
brought forth systems, like, disk brakes or rearview mirrors. Autonomous racing series such …

A real-time game theoretic planner for autonomous two-player drone racing

R Spica, E Cristofalo, Z Wang… - IEEE Transactions …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we propose an online 3-D planning algorithm for a drone to race competitively
against a single adversary drone. The algorithm computes an approximation of the Nash …

Time-optimal trajectory planning for a race car considering variable tyre-road friction coefficients

F Christ, A Wischnewski, A Heilmeier… - Vehicle system …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
This paper shows the planning of time-optimal trajectories, which allows an autonomous
race car to drive at the handling limits, taking into account locally changing road friction …

Sequential convex programming methods for real-time optimal trajectory planning in autonomous vehicle racing

P Scheffe, TM Henneken, M Kloock… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optimization problems for trajectory planning in autonomous vehicle racing are
characterized by their nonlinearity and nonconvexity. Instead of solving these optimization …

Path-tracking for autonomous vehicles at the limit of friction

VA Laurense, JY Goh, JC Gerdes - 2017 American control …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The ability to use all of the available tire force is essential to road vehicles for emergency
maneuvers and racing. As the front tires of an understeering vehicle saturate while cornering …

Real-time trajectory planning for autonomous driving with gaussian process and incremental refinement

J Cheng, Y Chen, Q Zhang, L Gan… - … on Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Real-time kinodynamic trajectory planning in dy-namic environments is critical yet
challenging for autonomous driving. In this paper, we propose an efficient trajectory plan …

Autonomous vehicles meet the physical world: RSS, variability, uncertainty, and proving safety

P Koopman, B Osyk, J Weast - … 2019, Turku, Finland, September 11–13 …, 2019 - Springer
Abstract The Responsibility-Sensitive Safety (RSS) model offers provable safety for vehicle
behaviors such as minimum safe following distance. However, handling worst-case …

From the racetrack to the road: Real-time trajectory replanning for autonomous driving

JK Subosits, JC Gerdes - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In emergency situations, autonomous vehicles will be forced to operate at their friction limits
in order to avoid collisions. In these scenarios, coordinating the planning of the vehicle's …