relation: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/4021/ title: Model Predictive Control of Autonomous Vehicles creator: Zanon, Mario creator: Frasch, Janick V. creator: Vukov, Milan creator: Sager, Sebastian creator: Diehl, Moritz subject: T Technology (General) description: The control of autonomous vehicles is a challenging task that requires advanced control schemes. Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC) and Moving Horizon Estimation (MHE) are optimization-based control and estimation techniques that are able to deal with highly nonlinear, constrained, unstable and fast dynamic systems. In this chapter, these techniques are detailed, a descriptive nonlinear model is derived and the performance of the proposed control scheme is demonstrated in simulations of an obstacle avoidance scenario on a low-fricion icy road. publisher: Springer date: 2014 type: Book Section type: PeerReviewed identifier: Zanon, Mario and Frasch, Janick V. and Vukov, Milan and Sager, Sebastian and Diehl, Moritz Model Predictive Control of Autonomous Vehicles. In: Optimization and Optimal Control in Automotive Systems. Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences (455). Springer, pp. 41-57. ISBN 978-3-319-05371-4 (2014) relation: http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05371-4_3 relation: doi:10.1007/978-3-319-05371-4_3