This paper presents two control designs for heavy-duty truck platoons with constant spacings that focus on improved safety margins in longitudinal and lateral vehicle following. Both control concepts exploit the transmission of fused data on vehicle states among the platoon to minimise control errors and for collision avoidance to bound velocities or possible accelerations accounting for saturation effects. Longitudinal control formulations are used to minimise upper bounds on the corresponding variables. The effects of communication failure are discussed and a longitudinal control design is developed that restores similar performance with only autonomously detected data. In the case of lateral vehicle guidance the generation of disturbance and reference trajectories is proposed using data of front vehicles to optimise the performance of followers by a model-based predictive control framework. The effectiveness of both control designs for longitudinal and lateral vehicle guidance is shown in simulations.
Control concepts for safe vehicle platooning
2008
10 Seiten, 7 Bilder, 11 Quellen
Conference paper
English
Control concepts for safe vehicle platooning
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