An adaptive approach to cooperative longitudinal platooning of heterogeneous vehicles with communication losses

Despite the progresses in Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC), a crucial limitation of the state-of-the-art of this control scheme is that the string stability of the platoon can be proven only when the vehicles in the platoon have identical driveline dynamics (homogeneous platoons). In this paper, we present a novel control strategy...

An adaptive approach to longitudinal platooning with heterogeneous vehicle saturations

Adaptive CACC strategies have been recently proposed to stabilize a platoon with non-identical and uncertain vehicle dynamics (heterogeneous platoon). This work proposes a method to augment such strategies with a mechanism coping with saturation constraints (i.e. engine constraints). In fact, in a platoon of heterogeneous vehicles, engine...

Establishing Platoons of Bidirectional Cooperative Vehicles with Engine Limits and Uncertain Dynamics

In adaptive platooning strategies proposed in literature to handle uncertain and nonidentical uncertain vehicle dynamics (uncertain heterogeneous platoons) two aspects requiring proper design are neglected: bidirectional interaction among vehicles which might lead to loss of string stability, and engine saturation constraints which might lead...

An adaptive switched control approach to heterogeneous platooning with inter-vehicle communication losses

The advances in distributed inter-vehicle communication networks have stimulated a fruitful line of research in Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC). In CACC, individual vehicles, grouped into platoons, must automatically adjust their own speed using on-board sensors and communication with the preceding vehicle so as to maintain a safe...

Infrastructure assisted adaptive driving to stabilise heterogeneous vehicle strings

Literature has shown potentials of Connected/Cooperative Automated Vehicles (CAVs) in improving highway operations, especially on roadway capacity and flow stability. However, benefits were also shown to be negligible at low market penetration rates. This work develops a novel adaptive driving strategy for CAVs to stabilise heterogeneous...

Adaptive strategies for platooning

Automated driving, one of the rapidly growing research topics in the field of smart traffic, has proved to be a recognized solution for potentially improving road throughput and reducing vehicles' energy consumption by grouping individual vehicles into platoons controlled by one leading vehicle. <br/><br/>The advances in distributed inter...