An overview of vehicular platoon control under the four-component framework

SE Li, Y Zheng, K Li, J Wang - 2015 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The platooning of autonomous ground vehicles has potential to largely benefit the road
traffic, including enhancing highway safety, improving traffic utility and reducing fuel …

Stability margin improvement of vehicular platoon considering undirected topology and asymmetric control

Y Zheng, SE Li, K Li, LY Wang - IEEE Transactions on Control …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The platooning of autonomous vehicles has the potential to significantly improve traffic
capacity, enhance highway safety, and reduce fuel consumption. This paper studies the …

Ecological adaptive cruise controller for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles using nonlinear model predictive control

M Vajedi, NL Azad - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) are promising options for future transportation.
Having two sources of energy enables them to offer better fuel economy and fewer …

Correct-by-construction adaptive cruise control: Two approaches

P Nilsson, O Hussien, A Balkan, Y Chen… - … on Control Systems …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Motivated by the challenge of developing control software provably meeting specifications
for real-world problems, this paper applies formal methods to adaptive cruise control (ACC) …

On microscopic modelling of adaptive cruise control systems

IA Ntousakis, IK Nikolos, M Papageorgiou - Transportation Research …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) system, is one of the emerging vehicle
technologies that has already been deployed in the market. Although it was designed mainly …

String stable heterogeneous vehicle platoon using cooperative adaptive cruise control

C Wang, H Nijmeijer - 2015 ieee 18th international conference …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a heterogeneous vehicle platoon equipped with Cooperative Adaptive Cruise
Control (CACC) systems is studied. First, various causes of heterogeneity are reviewed. 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 …

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 …

Jam-absorption driving with a car-following model

Y Taniguchi, R Nishi, T Ezaki, K Nishinari - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics …, 2015 - Elsevier
Jam-absorption driving (JAD) refers to the action performed by a single car to dynamically
change its headway to remove a traffic jam. Because of its irregular motion, a car performing …

Stability analysis of bidirectional adaptive cruise control with asymmetric information flow

A Ghasemi, R Kazemi, S Azadi - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Stability and the string stability of a platoon of adaptive cruise control (ACC) vehicles using a
constant spacing are investigated. Due to realistic design and execution, negative effect of …