Challenges and possibilities of overtaking strategies for autonomous vehicles

Abstract

This paper present three distinct probability-based methods for decision making and trajectory planning layers of overtaking maneuvering functionality for autonomous vehicles. The computation time of the proposed decision-making algorithms may be high, because the number of describing parameters of the traffic situations may vary in a high range. The presented clustering-based, graph-based and dynamic-based methods differ in the complexity of their computation algorithms. Since the decision-making process may require considerable online computation effort, a neural-network-based approach is presented for implementation purposes.