Title
Autonomous Platoon Control Allowing Range-Limited Sensors
Abstract
This paper investigates control design for the platoon of automated vehicles whose sensors have limited sensing capability. A novel hybrid platoon model is established, in which actuator delay (e.g., the fueling and braking delay) and the effect of sensing range limitation are involved. Based on the new model, a framework of guaranteed-cost controller design is presented, which can robustly stabilize the platoon of vehicles with a given level of disturbance attenuation. The obtained controller is complemented by additional conditions that were established to guarantee string stability and zero steady-state spacing error, yielding a useful string-stable platoon control algorithm. The effectiveness and advantage of the presented methodology is demonstrated by both numerical simulations and experiments with laboratory-scale Arduino cars.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/TVT.2012.2203362
IEEE T. Vehicular Technology
Keywords
Field
DocType
Vehicles,Sensors,Delay,Numerical stability,Stability analysis,Acceleration,Uncertainty
Control theory,Platoon,Control theory,Computer science,Control engineering,Arduino,Acceleration,Control system,Robust control,Numerical stability,Actuator
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
61
7
0018-9545
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
32
1.50
6
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ge Guo172749.03
Wei Yue217015.50