Research on vehicle adaptive cruise control method based on fuzzy model predictive control

Abstract

Under complex working conditions, vehicle adaptive cruise control (ACC) systems with fixed weight coefficients cannot guarantee good car following performance under all conditions. In order to improve the tracking and comfort of vehicles in different modes, a fuzzy model predictive control (Fuzzy‐MPC) algorithm is proposed. Based on the comprehensive consideration of safety, comfort, fuel economy and vehicle limitations, the objective function and constraints are designed. A relaxation factor vector is introduced to soften the hard constraint boundary in order to solve this problem, for which there was previously no feasible solution. In order to maintain driving stability under complex conditions, a multi‐objective optimization method, which can update the weight coefficient online, is proposed. In the numerical simulation, the values of velocity, relative distance, acceleration and acceleration change rate under different conditions are compared, and the results show that the proposed algorithm has better tracking and stability than the traditional algorithm. The effectiveness and reliability of the Fuzzy‐MPC algorithm are verified by co‐simulation with the designed PID lower layer control algorithm with front feedforward and feedback.