Nowadays, throughput has become a limiting factor in road transport. An effective means to increase the road throughput is to decrease the intervehicle time gap. A small time gap, however, may lead to string instability, being the amplification of velocity disturbances in upstream direction. String-stable behavior is thus considered an essential requirement for the design of automatic distance ...

In this paper, the string stable platoon control problem of discrete-time networked vehicle systems is considered by using distributed model predictive (MPC) based method. An optimization established to minimize cost function associated system trajectories. The last-step shifting method applied set local optimal solution as assumed and send it neighbor vehicles. By sum Lyapunov function, stabil...

in recent research on modelling road collisions very little attention has been paid  to rear-end chain reaction collisions, which is characterized by more than two vehicles involved in a collision at the same time. the core aim of the present research is to develop a methodology to estimate such potential collision probabilities based on a proactive perspective, where deceleration rate to avoid...

Platoon-based vehicular cyber-physical systems have gained increasing attention due to their potentials in improving traffic efficiency, capacity, and saving energy. However, external uncertain disturbances arising from mismatched model errors, sensor noises, communication delays unknown environments can impose a great challenge on the constrained control of vehicle platooning. In this paper, w...

This paper studies the vehicle platooning system based on vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication, where all vehicles in platoon upload their driving state information to roadside unit (RSU), and RSU makes control decisions with assistance of edge computing. By addressing delay concern, a approach is proposed achieve plant stability string stability. The effects time headway, communicatio...

The problem of how to coordinate a large fleet of trucks with given itinerary to enable fuel-efficient platooning is considered. Platooning is a promising technology that enables trucks to save significant amounts of fuel by driving close together and thus reducing air drag. A setting is considered in which a fleet of trucks is provided with transport assignments consisting of a start location,...

The aim of platooning is to enable several Heavy Duty Vehicles (HDVs) to drive in a convoy and act as one unit to decrease the fuel consumption. By introducing wireless communication and tight control, the distance between the HDVs can be decreased significantly. This implies a reduction of the air drag and consequently the fuel consumption for all the HDVs in the platoon. The challenge in plat...

This paper studies the cooperative control problem of a mixed vehicle platoon, which is composed connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs) and human-driven (HDVs) in an arbitrary order. An alternating direction method multipliers (ADMM) based distributed model predictive (DMPC) algorithm proposed for CAVs to lead platoon travelling string with anticipated inter-vehicle spacing desired velocity. Firs...