Nonlinear adaptive cruise control of vehicular platoons

The paper deals with the design of nonlinear adaptive cruise controllers for vehicular platoons operating on an open road or a ring road. constructed feedback are functions distance between successive vehicles and their speeds. It is shown that proposed novel guarantee safety (collision avoidance), speed positivity, bounded acceleration, limits by explicitly characterising set allowable inputs leveraging barrier function techniques. Moreover, we global asymptotic stability platoon to desired configuration, as well string stability. Certain macroscopic properties also investigated. main challenges stem from fact all previous objectives must be satisfied simultaneously control systems studied do not evolve in finite-dimensional linear space but rather specific sets. efficiency demonstrated means numerical examples.