Unified Lateral Motion Control Of Vehicles For Lane Change Maneuvers In Automated Highway Systems

This report deals with the lateral guidance of vehicles, with focus on lane change maneuvers. Two approaches are presented for lane changes maneuvers. The first is to treat the maneuvers as a tracking control problem. A virtual desired trajectory (VDT) is used a tracking control approach. The second is to use a unified lateral guidance algorithm which consists of the desired yaw rate generator and the yaw rate tracking controller.