Range policy of adaptive cruise control vehicles for improved flow stability and string stability

J Zhou, H Peng - IEEE Transactions on intelligent …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A methodology to design the range policy of adaptive cruise control vehicles and its
companion servoloop control algorithm is presented in this paper. A nonlinear range policy …

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) …

Provably-correct and comfortable adaptive cruise control

M Althoff, S Maierhofer, C Pek - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Adaptive cruise control is one of the most common comfort features of road vehicles. Despite
its large market penetration, current systems are not safe in all driving conditions and require …

Unified framework for over-damped string stable adaptive cruise control systems

P Khound, P Will, A Tordeux, F Gronwald - Transportation research part C …, 2023 - Elsevier
Many recent experiments have shown that the current commercially available adaptive
cruise control (ACC) systems demonstrate string instability phenomena. The lower-level time …

Second order sliding mode control of vehicles with distributed collision avoidance capabilities

A Ferrara, C Vecchio - Mechatronics, 2009 - Elsevier
Recent research has shown that the longitudinal control of platoons of vehicles is
appropriate to improve the traffic capacity of road networks while maintaining the safety …

A local traffic characteristic based dynamic gains tuning algorithm for cooperative adaptive cruise control considering wireless communication delay

Y Zhang, B Tian, Z Xu, S Gong, Y Gao, Z Cui… - … Research Part C …, 2022 - Elsevier
Due to the inevitable existence of wireless communication delay, the string stability of
cooperative adaptive cruise control (CACC) platoon systems may not be guaranteed if the …

Analytical prediction of self-organized traffic jams as a function of increasing ACC penetration

K Jerath, SN Brennan - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Self-organizing traffic jams are known to occur in medium-to-high density traffic flows, and it
is suspected that adaptive cruise control (ACC) may affect their onset in mixed human-ACC …

Extending the adaptive time gap car-following model to enhance local and string stability for adaptive cruise control systems

P Khound, P Will, A Tordeux… - Journal of Intelligent …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
In this paper, we extend the nonlinear adaptive time gap car-following model to enhance the
local and string stability for adaptive cruise control systems considering a time-lag in the …

Design methodology to derive over-damped string stable adaptive cruise control systems

P Khound, P Will, F Gronwald - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we formulate a common design methodology to derive an adaptive cruise
control algorithm in order to compensate the effect of the lower level time-lag on the stability …

Cooperative extended state observer based control of vehicle platoons with arbitrarily small time headway

A Liu, T Li, Y Gu, H Dai - Automatica, 2021 - Elsevier
We study platoon control of vehicles with linear third-order longitudinal dynamics under the
constant time headway policy. The controller of each follower vehicle is only based on its …