A Lateral Control Solution for Cooperative Vehicle Platooning Applications

Master thesis (2020)

Authors

D.G. van den Berg Mechanical Engineering

Contributors

Riccardo M.G. Ferrari Team Jan-Willem van Wingerden - Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering (mentor)
Mohsen Alirezaei (graduation committee member)
T. Keviczky Team Tamas Keviczky - Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering (graduation committee member)
N. van de Wouw Eindhoven University of Technology (coach)
C.J. van der Ploeg TNO Automotive (coach)
Faculty
Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
Copyright: © 2020 Daniel van den Berg
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Published Date

24-06-2020

Language

English

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Faculty

Mechanical Engineering

Abstract

Vehicle platooning is often regarded as one of the most promising solutions for solving the road congestion issues. Experiments have successfully proven that longitudinal platooning can be safely achieved in real world applications using a platoon of several vehicles. Lateral control however, has received far less attention. The main difficulty with lateral platooning lies in the fact that the two possible vehicle following methods both have their own limitations. The direct vehicle following approach suffers from corner cutting, whereas with path following using path reconstruction is often unreliable and difficult to achieve in platooning applications. In this thesis work a new method is proposed which combines the strengths of both vehicle following methods, and at the same time negate their drawbacks.