A design of lane change maneuver for automated vehicles

This paper presents a new lane change maneuver for automated vehicles. The lane change maneuver, which is designed as a distributed strategy so that it can be executed by vehicle based controllers, guarantees the safety of the front of the current lane and then selects a sufficient gap in the target adjacent lane for a feasible lane change. The performances of this lane change maneuver are demonstrated by the simulation of obstacle avoidances on two-lane roadways.