As one of the leading method of electric wheelchairs, platoon driving using Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) has been proposed to keep constant time-headway. The platoon driving system has been widely used assuming straight roads that has good visibility, but has not been used in narrow corridor. While, the gross weight of wheelchair changes drastically depending on passenger’s weight. In this pap...

Coupled with the growth of world economy, the demand of freight transport has escalated and will continue to do so. As the traffic intensity increases, the pressure on infrastructure, energy usage and environment becomes higher than ever. Meanwhile, the number of traffic accidents is also increasing year by year as a result. Heavy-duty vehicle (HDV) platooning makes a group of HDVs driving clos...

How do leadership ratings collected from units operating under stable conditions predict subsequent performance of those units operating under high stress and uncertainty? To examine this question, the authors calculated the predictive relationships for the transformational and transactional leadership of 72 light infantry rifle platoon leaders for ratings of unit potency, cohesion, and perform...

Nowadays, urban environments suffer from recurrent traffic jam with associated side effects. Platoon system, a set of vehicle attach by virtual link, is one of answer. in order to cope with issues such as different platoon geometrics since several years, we’re seeing the multi-agent system as element of response to many problems. This paper to apply this concept for platoon vehicles system thro...

Vehicle platooning provides avenues to improve road transportation. However, safely operate a vehicle platoon, stringent conditions, e.g., string stability, on the closed-loop platoon dynamics must be guaranteed. To meet such control specifications, linear longitudinal are usually assumed for design and imposed by using mid-level systems. disturbances model mismatches can limit compensation of ...

This paper develops distributed optimization-based, platoon-centered connected and autonomous vehicle (CAV) car-following schemes, motivated by the recent interest in CAV platooning technologies. Various optimization or control schemes have been developed for platooning. However, most existing platoon centered require either centralized data processing computation at least one step of their ref...

A technique for the longitudinal control of a platoon of automated vehicles is presented. A nonlinear model is used to represent the vehicle dynamics of each vehicle within the platoon. The controlled vehicle is assumed to be capable of measuring (or estimating) necessary dynamical information from the vehicle immediately in front of it by its on-board sensors. The computer in the vehicle proce...

Wireless vehicle to vehicle communication in a vehicle platoon is proposed in intelligent transportation systems to increase safety of the transportation system and assist drivers for improved decision making. However, similar to any networked system, cooperative connected vehicles in a platoon are vulnerable to malfunction due to failures in network communication. In addition to the possible d...

In this paper, a new virtual leader following consensus protocol is introduced to perform the internal and string stability analysis of longitudinal platoon of vehicles under generic network topology. In all previous studies on multi-agent systems with generic network topology, the control parameters are strictly dependent on eigenvalues of network matrices (adjacency or Laplacian). Since some ...

This paper describes the development of a protocol to coordinate platoon maneuvers in the context of an automated highway system (AHS). Such a protocol would need to have access to both communication and control information, and would thus exist at the boundary of what has been referred to as the coordination and regulation layers of the AHS control architecture, and is referred to in this pape...