Research on optimal changing path planning for unmanned single-drum rollers
To ensure that the single-drum roller maintains stable steering during lane-changing compaction and guarantees com-paction quality,a lane-changing path planning method was introduced.In this method,the smoothness of the single-drum roller's lane-changing trajectory,stability of steering,and energy consumption during lane-changing operations were taken as optimization objectives.5th-order Bezier curve was used as the lane changing path curve.An articulated kinematic model was developed to es-tablish a correspondence between the states of the lane-changing path points.The Light Spectrum Optimizer(LSO)algorithm was employed to optimize the coordinates of unknown key control points in the 5th-order Bezier curve,resulting in an approximate op-timal lane-changing path.Taking a certain type of single-drum roller as an example,it is shown by simulation and test results that the curves planned by this method have a heading angle and curvature of 0 at both the starting and ending points,with continuous curvature throughout the entire trajectory.This complies with the operational requirements of the single-drum roller.In comparison to document[10]methods,the optimal changing path curves planned by this method exhibit a reduction of 3.8%in maximum lateral error and 16.7%in average lateral error.Furthermore,the maximum curvature and average curvature decrease by 18.0%and 9.3%respectively.The average fuel consumption of the vehicle also diminishes by 3.8%.The research outcomes provide practical application reference value for unmanned operation of single-drum roller.