Multiple-Vehicle Longitudinal Collision Mitigation by Coordinated Brake Control

Longitudinal collision mitigation via coordinated braking of multiple vehicles using model predictive control

The vehicular collision can lead to serious casualties and traffic congestions, especially multiple-vehicle collision. Most recent studies mainly focused on collision warning and avoidance strategies for two consecutive vehicles, but only a few on multiple-vehicle situations. This study proposes a coordinated brake control (CBC) strategy for multiple vehicles to minimize the risk of rear-end co...

Multi-Body Integrated Vehicle-Occupant Models for Collision Mitigation and Vehicle Safety using Dynamics Control Systems

Information Consensus in Distributed Multiple Vehicle Coordinated Control

Cooperation in multiple vehicle teams requires information to be shared between team members. If shared information is not synchronized across the team, then cooperation is adversely affected. This paper considers the problem of information consensus in multiple agent teams. We define notions of asymptotic consensus and show that a team of agents can be asymptotically brought into consensus if ...

Synchronization of Information in Distributed Multiple Vehicle Coordinated Control

Cooperation in multiple vehicle teams requires that information be shared between team members. If shared information is not synchronized across the team, then cooperation is adversely affected. This paper considers the problem of information synchronization in multiple agent teams. We define notions of asymptotic synchronizability and show that a team of agents is asymptotically synchronizable...

Hybrid Electric Vehicle Brake System Control Metrics Design and Application

There are several kinds of metrics should be handled by the brake system of hybrid electric vehicles such as fuel economy, performance and safety. The optimal control of the HEV brake system will be solved by a modelbased approach. Based on the developed vehicle model, a two phase approach is proposed for the coordinated control of the HEV brake system. A high level sliding mode controller is a...