Lateral control of vehicle platoons
Paper in proceeding, 2013

Vehicle platoons are fully automated vehicles driving in close proximity of each other, where both distance keeping and steering is under automatic control. This paper is aiming at a variant of vehicle platoons, where the lateral control is using forward looking sensors, i.e. camera, radar. Such a system solution implies that the vehicle dynamics are coupled together laterally, in contrast to the classical look-down solutions. For such a platoon, lateral string stability is an important property that the controller needs to guarantee. This article proposes a method for designing such a distributed controller. It also examines the effect of model uncertainties on the lateral string stability of the platoon for the proposed method.

String stability

Vehicle platoon

Distributed control

Author

Stefan Solyom

Volvo Cars

Arash Idelchi

Chalmers, Signals and Systems

Badr Bin Salamah

Chalmers, Signals and Systems

Proceedings - 2013 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC 2013

4561-4565 6722531
9780769551548 (ISBN)

Subject Categories

Transport Systems and Logistics

DOI

10.1109/SMC.2013.776

ISBN

9780769551548

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