Active Inference Control for Vehicle Platooning

Due to the increase in traffic, road congestion has gone up. Vehicle platooning is a possible way to increase the capacity of a given road, by decreasing the distance between the vehicles in the platoon. At the moment, the control of vehicle platoons is commonly done using PID controllers. The advantage of this is that it requires little...

Longitudinal control for heterogeneous vehicle platooning with uncertain dynamics: Vehicle Platooning

The work presented in this report focuses on longitudinal control of heterogeneous platoon. Firstly, merging maneuver is looked upon, considering heterogeneity in the vehicles i.e. considering different dynamics for the vehicles involved. Then heterogeneity in platoon, arising from the difference in potential limits of the vehicles is taken into...

Event-Triggered Control for Vehicle Platooning: Application to heterogeneous platoons

This thesis covers the implementation of Event-Triggering Control (ETC) on Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC). CACC has the potential to increase road capacity, by having safe vehicle following with small intervehicle distance (less than 1 second), to increase traffic flow by eliminating shockwave effects, such that string-stable...

Decentralized CACC controllers for platoons of heterogeneous vehicles with uncertain dynamics

The capacity of public roads has become a serious problem all over the world. The traffic is constantly increasing, while the capacity remains almost the same. This causes traffic jams and road accidents. An effective way to increase the road throughput employs vehicular platoons, which allow to decrease inter-vehicle distances without...