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International audience; Driverless shuttles are becoming one of the most promising applications of automated vehicle technologies in the short term. For a real system deployment, passenger's acceptance on the shuttle performance will play a key role. This paper presents a passenger-centered control algorithm design for increasing passenger's ride quality. Controllers with different performance but properly following the reference are developed for lane-level autonomous navigation. The whole solution has been implemented and tested in a real vehicle, using a roundabout as use-case scenario, providing encouraging results.

International audience; This paper presents the design and implementation of a novel lateral control approach. The proposed control strategy is based on Youla-Kucera parametrization to switch gradually between controllers that are designed separately for big and small lateral errors. The present approach studies the critical problem of initial lateral error in line following. It ensures smooth and stable transitions between controllers and provides a smooth vehicle response regardless of the lateral error. For an initial validation the present work was tested in simulation, implementing a dynamic bicycle model. It has also been tested in real platforms implementing an electric Renault ZOE, with good results when activating the system at different lateral errors. autonomous vehicles Switched controllers parametrization.