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...

Emergency Escape Manoeuvre of a Faulty Truck in a Platoon Formation Moving in Highway

The platooning of trucks provides significant benefits in the existing transportation systems regarding social, economic and environmental aspects. Due to the platoon's high dependence on sensors, it is critically important to have fault-tolerant countermeasures that deal efficiently with failures by achieving minimal risk condition. This thesis...

Detecting Malicious Behavior In Cooperative Autonomous RC Cars

Sensors are used all around us in various industries, for instance: agricultural, medical,aerospace and automotive. It is important for these industries to have reliable sensor data because the functionality of technologies depends on it. In this work, the industry of inter-est is automotive, specifically in the field of Cooperative Adaptive...

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...

Active platoon formation in congestion with dynamic dedicated lane sections (DDLSs)

The future brings Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs), where platooning with small inter-vehicle time gaps is possible. However, before the situation that the entire car park exists of CAVs, there is a transition period. This MSc. thesis has developed two strategies (in MOTUS), to let CAVs actively form platoons with dynamic dedicated lane...

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...