TY - JOUR AU - Lemos, Randerson AU - Garcia, Olmer AU - Ferreira, Janito Vaqueiro PY - 2016/05/26 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Local and Global Path Generation for Autonomous Vehicles Using Splines JF - IngenierĂ­a JA - Ing. VL - 21 IS - 2 SE - Special Section: Best Extended Articles - WEA 2015 DO - 10.14483/udistrital.jour.reving.2016.2.a05 UR - https://revistas.udistrital.edu.co/index.php/reving/article/view/9574 SP - 188-200 AB - <br /><p><strong>Context</strong>: Before autonomous vehicles being a reality in daily situations, outstanding issues regarding the techniques of autonomous mobility must be solved. Hence, relevant aspects of a path planning for terrestrial vehicles are shown.</p><p><strong>Method</strong>: The approached path planning technique uses splines to generate the global route. For this goal, waypoints obtained from online map services are used. With the global route parametrized in the arc-length, candidate local paths are computed and the optimal one is selected by cost functions.</p><p><strong>Results</strong>: Different routes are used to show that the number and distribution of waypoints are highly correlated to a satisfactory arc-length parameterization of the global route, which is essential to the proper behavior of the path planning technique.</p><p><strong>Conclusions</strong>: The cubic splines approach to the path planning problem successfully generates the global and local paths. Nevertheless, the use of raw data from the online map services showed to be unfeasible due the consistency of the data. Hence, a preprocessing stage of the raw data is proposed to guarantee the well behavior and robustness of the technique.</p> ER -