A novel model is proposed to formulate the mobility of multiple vehicles with inter‐communications moving together as a swarm. This model is inspired by the aggregate motion of social force, and is used to describe the self‐organised behaviour of the vehicle swarm in vehicular ad hoc networks. To validate and analyse the proposed model, some simulations are performed in different traffic scenarios, such as the low traffic density with high mobility and the high traffic density with low mobility. Two comparative simulation cases are also provided to explore the effect of vehicular communications on the mobility of multiple vehicles. The simulation results prove that the model can well formulate the cooperative behaviours of multiple vehicles with vehicle‐to‐vehicle communications in inter‐vehicle collision avoidance and obstacle‐avoidance scenarios, and these results also strengthen that the inter‐vehicular communications can enhance the vehicle safety and traffic efficiency.
Swarm model for cooperative multi‐vehicle mobility with inter‐vehicle communications
IET Intelligent Transport Systems ; 9 , 10 ; 887-896
2015-12-01
10 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
vehicle swarm model , intervehicle collision avoidance , traffic efficiency , vehicular ad hoc networks , cooperative multivehicle mobility , road safety , intervehicle communications , collision avoidance , self‐organised behaviour , vehicle safety , vehicle‐to‐vehicle communications , traffic density , obstacle‐avoidance scenarios , road vehicles
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