To enhance safety and traffic efficiency, stability of a mixed human and connected cruise control (CCC) system is studied. The authors consider individual vehicle platoons, in which the tail CCC vehicle receives feedback from multiple human‐driven vehicles ahead via vehicle‐to‐vehicle communications, with the objective of stability analysis and feedback control design. To deal with this, the transfer function theory is used. Simulations are also performed to evaluate impacts of the mixed human and CCC system on safety and traffic efficiency. Results show that the output bounds of the CCC feedback coefficients can be appropriately designed to keep local individual vehicle platoons stable for all possible vehicle speeds. The feedback coefficient has a larger design range and the required lower bound value decreases as the feedback length increases. Additionally, the system design would improve traffic safety and efficiency even at lower CCC vehicle penetration rates.
Control design for stable connected cruise control systems to enhance safety and traffic efficiency
IET Intelligent Transport Systems ; 12 , 8 ; 921-930
2018-10-01
10 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
stable connected cruise control systems , feedback length , transfer function theory , feedback , feedback control design , individual vehicle platoons , mobile robots , CCC vehicle penetration rates , road safety , CCC system , road traffic control , stability analysis , control system synthesis , control design , CCC feedback coefficients , stability , traffic efficiency enhancement , vehicle‐to‐vehicle communications , safety enhancement , velocity control , tail CCC vehicle , multiple human‐driven vehicles
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