AVOID-JACK: Avoidance of Jackknifing for Swarms of Long Heavy Articulated Vehicles

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2511.08016v1
• Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2025 01:34:13 GMT
• Title: AVOID-JACK: Avoidance of Jackknifing for Swarms of Long Heavy Articulated Vehicles
• Authors: Adrian Schönnagel, Michael Dubé, Christoph Steup, Felix Keppler, Sanaz Mostaghim,
• Abstract summary: This paper presents a novel approach to avoiding jackknifing and mutual collisions in Heavy Articulated Vehicles (HAVs) by leveraging decentralized swarm intelligence.<n>Despite its relevance to real-world applications such as logistics automation, remote mining, airport baggage transport, and agricultural operations, this problem has not been addressed in the existing literature.<n>The method presented in this paper prioritizes jackknifing avoidance and establishes a foundation for mutual collision avoidance.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: This paper presents a novel approach to avoiding jackknifing and mutual collisions in Heavy Articulated Vehicles (HAVs) by leveraging decentralized swarm intelligence. In contrast to typical swarm robotics research, our robots are elongated and exhibit complex kinematics, introducing unique challenges. Despite its relevance to real-world applications such as logistics automation, remote mining, airport baggage transport, and agricultural operations, this problem has not been addressed in the existing literature. To tackle this new class of swarm robotics problems, we propose a purely reaction-based, decentralized swarm intelligence strategy tailored to automate elongated, articulated vehicles. The method presented in this paper prioritizes jackknifing avoidance and establishes a foundation for mutual collision avoidance. We validate our approach through extensive simulation experiments and provide a comprehensive analysis of its performance. For the experiments with a single HAV, we observe that for 99.8% jackknifing was successfully avoided and that 86.7% and 83.4% reach their first and second goals, respectively. With two HAVs interacting, we observe 98.9%, 79.4%, and 65.1%, respectively, while 99.7% of the HAVs do not experience mutual collisions.

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