Energy-efficient predictive control for connected, automated driving under localization uncertainty

This paper presents a data-driven Model Predictive Control (MPC) for energy-efficient urban road driving for connected, automated vehicles. The proposed MPC aims to minimize total energy consumption by controlling the vehicle's longitudinal motion on roads with traffic lights and preceding vehicles. Its terminal cost function and terminal constraints are learned from data, which consists of the closed-loop state and input trajectories. The terminal cost function represents the remaining energy-to-spend starting from a given terminal state. The terminal constraints are designed to ensure that the controlled vehicle timely crosses the upcoming traffic light, adheres to traffic laws, and accounts for the preceding vehicles. We validate the effectiveness of our method through both simulations and real-world vehicle experiments, demonstrating 19% improvement in average energy consumption compared to conventional approaches that involve solving a long-horizon optimal control problem for speed planning and employing a separate controller for speed tracking.