Gridlock-free Autonomous Parking Lots for Autonomous Vehicles

Tsz-Chiu Au,Tsz-Chiu Au

Many cities suffer from a shortage of parking spaces. Research in high density parking (HDP) focuses on how to increase the capacity of parking lots by allowing vehicles to block each other but temporarily give way to other vehicles by driving autonomously upon request. Previous works on HDP did not consider mixing different parking strategies and ignored the possibility of gridlock when multiple ...