Stable longitudinal control of heterogeneous vehicular platoon with disturbances and information delays

L Xu, W Zhuang, G Yin, C Bian - IEEE Access, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a robust control method for heterogeneous vehicle platoon subject to
varying road slopes, aerodynamic drag, and wireless communication delay. First, a …

Time-varying parameter adaptive vehicle speed control

H Kim, D Kim, I Shu, K Yi - IEEE Transactions on Vehicular …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a novel approach for time-varying parameter adaptive throttle and brake
control for vehicle speed tracking. A control algorithm has been developed based on a …

Effect of autonomous driving on traffic breakdown in mixed traffic flow: A comparison of classical ACC with three-traffic-phase-ACC (TPACC)

BS Kerner - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, an analysis of the effect of autonomous driving vehicles on traffic breakdown in
mixed traffic flow consisting of randomly distributed human driving and autonomous driving …

Enhancing cooperation of vehicle merging control in heavy traffic using communication-based soft actor-critic algorithm

M Li, Z Li, S Wang, S Zheng - IEEE transactions on intelligent …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A promising way to improve efficiency in highway on-ramp regions is to control connected
and automated vehicles (CAVs) to pass the merging section sequentially. The primary …

The lord of the ring road: a review and evaluation of autonomous control policies for traffic in a ring road

FC Chou, AR Bagabaldo, AM Bayen - ACM Transactions on Cyber …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
This study focuses on the comprehensive investigation of stop-and-go waves appearing in
closed-circuit ring road traffic wherein we evaluate various longitudinal dynamical models …

Application of gas-kinetic theory to modelling mixed traffic of manual and ACC vehicles

D Ngoduy - Transportmetrica, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
In this article, we propose an extended multiclass gas-kinetic theory applicable to mixed
traffic flow of manual and adaptive cruise control (ACC) vehicles. In the model, the …

ACC/CACC-control design, stability and robust performance

XY Lu, JK Hedrick, M Drew - Proceedings of the 2002 American …, 2002 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Variable headway Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) and Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control
(CACC) based on a sliding mode method are considered in a unified model-based …

Energy-based assessment and driving behavior of ACC systems and humans inside platoons

T Apostolakis, MA Makridis, A Kouvelas… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Evidence in the literature shows that automated and human driving modes demonstrate
different driving characteristics, ie, headway policy, spacing policy, reaction time …

Communication resources management based on spectrum sensing for vehicle platooning

W Gao, C Wu, L Zhong, KLA Yau - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Vehicle platoon is a group of vehicles moving in the same direction at a certain speed while
maintaining a stable inter-vehicle distance, and so the vehicles are closely connected with …

Adaptive cruise control: Experimental validation of advanced controllers on scale-model cars

A Mehra, WL Ma, F Berg, P Tabuada… - 2015 American …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent advances in automotive technology, such as, sensing and onboard computation,
have resulted in the development of adaptive cruise control (ACC) algorithms that improve …