Coordination for Connected Automated Vehicles at Merging Roadways in Mixed Traffic Environment

In this paper, we present an optimal control framework to address motion coordination of connected automated vehicles (CAVs) in the presence of human-driven vehicles (HDVs) in merging scenarios. Our framework combines an unconstrained trajectory solution of a low-level energy-optimal control problem with an upper-level optimization problem that yields the minimum travel time for CAVs. We predict the future trajectories of the HDVs using Newell’s car-following model. To handle potential deviations of HDVs’ actual behavior from the predicted one, we design a safety filter for CAVs based on control barrier functions. The effectiveness of the proposed control framework is demonstrated via simulations with heterogeneous human driving behaviors.