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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2023
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Rien Quirynen, Cambridge, MA (US);
Sleiman Safaoui, Cambridge, MA (US);
Stefano Di Cairano, Cambridge, MA (US);
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
A vehicle controlled for traveling on a road having a geometric design defined by one or a combination of an alignment, a profile, and a cross-section of the road, such that different values of parameters of the geometric design of the road, traffic on the road, traffic rules for the flow of the traffic on the road define different traffic scenarios. The vehicle is controlled by transforming the mixed-integer non-convex constrained optimization problem for the current real-world traffic scenario into a mixed-integer convex optimization problem for an approximate representation of the real-world traffic scenario by relaxing the configuration parameters of the real-world scenarios and tightening corresponding limitation parameters. The transformed mixed-integer convex optimization problem for the approximate representation of the real-world traffic scenario is solved to produce a current control command for controlling one or multiple actuators of the vehicle.