Lp string stability of cascaded systems: Application to vehicle platooning

J Ploeg, N Van De Wouw… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nowadays, throughput has become a limiting factor in road transport. An effective means to
increase the road throughput is to employ a small intervehicle time gap using automatic …

Suppressing traffic flow instabilities

BKP Horn - 16th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
While many models of traffic flow predict the instabilities commonly observed-particularly at
higher traffic densities-there are few suggestions for suppressing them. A method is …

The effects of mechanical response on the dynamics and string stability of a platoon of adaptive cruise control vehicles

LC Davis - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2013 - Elsevier
The dynamics of a platoon of adaptive cruise control vehicles is analyzed for a general
mechanical response of the vehicle. Effects of acceleration-feedback control that were not …

Multi-robot coordination for jams in congested systems

S Hoshino, H Seki - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper describes a novel coordination methodology of autonomous mobile robots for
jams in a congested system with bottlenecks. This methodology consists of two approaches …

Spacing control of cooperative adaptive cruise control for heavy-duty vehicles

M Omae, R Fukuda, T Ogitsu, WP Chiang - IFAC Proceedings Volumes, 2013 - Elsevier
This study proposes a spacing control algorithm for the Adaptive Cruise Control system
(ACC) using inter-vehicle communication. An important consideration in ACC controller …

Model predictive control with constraints for a nonlinear adaptive cruise control vehicle model in transition manoeuvres

Z Ali, AA Popov, G Charles - Vehicle system dynamics, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
A vehicle following control law, based on the model predictive control method, to perform
transition manoeuvres (TMs) for a nonlinear adaptive cruise control (ACC) vehicle is …

Model predictive control for ecological vehicle synchronized driving considering varying aerodynamic drag and road shape information

A Kaku, MAS Kamal, M Mukai… - SICE Journal of Control …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
This paper presents an ecological vehicle synchronized driving control system that aims at
reducing overall fuel consumption of the vehicles in a group. A centralized system for …

Combined throttle and brake control for vehicle cruise control: A model free approach

H Kim, K Yi - 2013 IEEE intelligent vehicles symposium (IV), 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper has been focused on the design of throttle and brake controller for vehicle speed
control. The control goals of the speed control are reduction of the effects of model …

Adaptive optimal control for the uncertain driving habit problem in adaptive cruise control system

Z Dongbin, X Zhongpu - Proceedings of 2013 IEEE …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a novel adaptive optimal control approach based on Q-function is proposed to
address the problem as the driving habits change among drivers and over time in the …

Optimality and oscillations near the edge of stability in the dynamics of autonomous vehicle platoons

LC Davis - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2013 - Elsevier
A model that includes the mechanical response of a vehicle to a demanded change in
acceleration is analyzed to determine the string stability of a platoon of autonomous …