A Comprehensive Analysis of Model Predictive Control for Lane Keeping Assist System

Lane Keeping Assist System (LKAS) enhances comfort and safety while driving. It plays a significant role in the Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) and future Automated Driving (AD). The LKAS solution aims to help the driver keep the vehicle within the road lines, preventing unintentional lane departure. Despite LKAS being an important solution for comfortable driving, robust LKAS steering control is still lacking, requiring constant driver intervention or premature LKAS deactivation. LKAS require optimal control solutions with real-time constraints. This paper comprehensively analyzes Model Predictive Control (MPC) for real-time LKAS applications. Classical and parameterized MPC schemes with distinct Quadratic Programming (QP) solvers are combined to evaluate LKAS closed-loop control performance and real-time constraints. A sideslip and lateral speed bicycle modes were used to evaluate classical, trivial, and exponential MPC schemes. Experimental results highlight the three MPC and QP-appropriate solutions with satisfactory reference tracking without steering command and real-time constraints violation.