Overview of Longitudinal and Lateral Control for Intelligent Vehicle Path Tracking

Intelligent vehicle technology is a significant component in the automobile research field, which will play an important role in the future intelligent transportation system. With the continuous development of sensors, information technology and intelligent control methods, intelligent vehicle technology has made great progress. It is known that the environment perception, decision planning and vehicle control consist of the key technologies of intelligent vehicle. For the vehicle control, the research on path tracking is of great importance. In this paper, the longitudinal and lateral control methods related to path tracking for intelligent vehicle are reviewed based on the relevant literatures published in recent five years. Through analysis, it is concluded that how to deal with the longitudinal and lateral dynamic coupling will become the core problem in the field of the intelligent vehicle control.