Experimentation with a Vehicle Platoon Control System

Chang, Kwang Soo; Li, W.; Devlin, Peter; Shaikhbahai, A.; Varaiya, Pravin; Hedrick, J. Karl; McMahon, D.; Narendran, V. K.; Darbha, Swaroop; Olds, J.

doi:10.4271/912868

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“…In 1994 and 1997, the California PATH team demonstrated a platoon of vehicles driving on the I-15 in San Diego, CA [3]. The vehicles were equipped with radars and also used V2V communication to enable cooperative driving [4]. More recent demonstrations, such as [5,6,7], aimed to advance platooning to urban and realistic traffic situations.…”

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Balancing Safety and Traffic Throughput in Cooperative Vehicle Platooning

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2019 18th European Control Conference (ECC)

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In this paper we propose a distributed model predictive control architecture to coordinate the longitudinal motion of a vehicle platoon at a signalized intersection. Our control approach is cooperative; we use vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication in order to maintain small inter-vehicle distances and correspondingly achieve large vehicle throughput at an intersection. We study the trade-off between safety and road throughput for this problem. In particular, we present the link between traffic efficiency gains in terms of throughput, and safety of the connected platoon measured as trust on the predicted speed profile of other vehicles in the network.

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Balancing Safety and Traffic Throughput in Cooperative Vehicle Platooning

Smith

Kim

Guanetti

et al. 2019

2019 18th European Control Conference (ECC)

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“…A fairly large number of vehicle-following tests have been conducted as part of the PATH program over the past three years [29]. Fig.…”

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Control issues in automated highway systems

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his article describes vehicle control issues that must be faced T in designing a fully automated highway system (AHS). In particular, requirements for a control system architecture as well as issues of lateral and longitudinal "platoon" control are addressed. Interest in AHS is clearly expanding at a rapid pace due to the ever-increasing problems of freeway congestion and the potential for a technological solution. The approach described is based on five years of research as part of the California PATH program.

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“…At the time, the PATH program's main goal was to show technical feasibility rather than product development. In 1991, the PATH program was one of the first to demonstrate platooning at highway speed and using wireless communication [13]. Later, in 2004, the first DARPA grand challenge in 2004 was won by the Stanford's autonomous car, Stanley [14].…”

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