Parallel and diagonal parking in nonholonomic autonomous vehicles

Abstract This paper considers the problem of parallel and diagonal parking in wheeled vehicles. A method to plan in real-time a set of collision-free manoeuvres is presented. Artificial intelligent techniques, namely fuzzy logic, play an important role in the practical application of the method. Thus, a fuzzy system is used to select the most suitable manoeuvre from the solution set according with the environment, dealing with optimality, path tracking performance and collision avoidance trade-off. This technique has been implemented in a fuzzy behaviour-based control architecture combining planning and reactivity. The efficiency of the proposed method is demonstrated using the nonholonomic mobile robot ROMEO-3R designed and built at the University of Seville.

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