Abstract: A smooth cooperative lane change control method for multi-connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs), including: acquiring vehicle information of a lane-changing vehicle M and four surrounding vehicles A, B, C and D; constructing uncontrolled-vehicle and controlled-vehicle motion state prediction models; according to the motion state prediction models, predicting motion states of the lane-changing vehicle M, and the vehicles A, B, C and D; constructing an upper-layer optimization model to calculate an optimal control value and an optimized motion state of the lane-changing vehicle M and an optimal control value of the vehicle A; constructing a lower-layer optimization model to calculate an optimal control value of the vehicle D; and controlling the lane-changing vehicle M, the vehicle A and the vehicle D to run according to a corresponding optimal control value.