Fuel economy-oriented vehicle platoon control using economic model predictive control

M Hu, C Li, Y Bian, H Zhang, Z Qin… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Vehicle platoon control based on vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication is one of the
promising technologies to improve the performance of transportation systems. This paper …

Communication resource-efficient vehicle platooning control with various spacing policies

X Ge, QL Han, XM Zhang, D Ding - IEEE/CAA Journal of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Platooning represents one of the key features that connected automated vehicles may
possess as it allows multiple automated vehicles to be maneuvered cooperatively with small …

A review of automatic vehicle following systems

VK Vegamoor, S Darbha, KR Rajagopal - Journal of the Indian Institute of …, 2019 - Springer
There has been considerable interest recently in the development of connected and
autonomous vehicles (CAVs). Automatic vehicle following capability is central for CAVs; in …

From homogeneous to heterogeneous traffic flows: Lp String stability under uncertain model parameters

M Montanino, J Monteil, V Punzo - Transportation Research Part B …, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper shows that the heterogeneity of drivers' and vehicles characteristics makes
platoons, on average, more string-unstable. However, the string instability degree of …

Multiobjective platooning of connected and automated vehicles using distributed economic model predictive control

J Luo, D He, W Zhu, H Du - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper considers the multi-objective platooning control problem of a group of connected
and automated vehicles (CAVs) with bidirectional topologies. A new distributed economic …

Non-Euclidean contraction theory for robust nonlinear stability

A Davydov, S Jafarpour, F Bullo - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we study necessary and sufficient conditions for contraction and incremental
stability of dynamical systems with respect to non-Euclidean norms. First, we introduce weak …

Distributed adaptive consensus protocol for connected vehicle platoon with heterogeneous time-varying delays and switching topologies

G Yu, PK Wong, W Huang, J Zhao… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper studies the distributed consensus protocol for the connected vehicle platoon with
heterogeneous time-varying delays and switching topologies. A third-order dynamics model …

On structural and safety properties of head-to-tail string stability in mixed platoons

D Liu, B Besselink, S Baldi, W Yu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The interaction between automated and human-driven vehicles in mixed
(human/automated) platoons is far from understood. To study this interaction, the notion of …

Spontaneous-ordering platoon control for multirobot path navigation using guiding vector fields

BB Hu, HT Zhang, W Yao, J Ding… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we propose a distributed guiding-vector-field (DGVF) algorithm for a team of
robots to form a spontaneous-ordering platoon moving along a predefined desired path in …

Connectivity-based delay-tolerant control of automated vehicles: theory and experiments

S Beregi, SS Avedisov, CR He… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The concept of utilizing vehicle-to-everything (V2X) connectivity to improve the resilience of
automated vehicles in an environment where optical sensors may not provide reliable data …