Title
Cooperative Look-Ahead Control of Vehicle Platoon for Maximizing Fuel Efficiency Under System Constraints.
Abstract
The fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions can be reduced by organizing a group of vehicles into a platoon at a short inter-vehicular distance. Additionally, the eco-driving technology has the potential to further increase fuel efficiency by optimizing the speed trajectories of vehicles. However, little research has been done into the eco-driving of a vehicle platoon. This paper proposes a cooperative look-ahead control strategy for maximizing the fuel efficiency of vehicle platoon travelling on a road with varying slopes. In this paper, the aerodynamic drag, nonlinear engine fuel consumption model, discrete gear ratios, and three engine operating modes are considered in the control strategy; under system constraints, a cooperative optimal fuel consumption problem of vehicle platoon based on distributed model predictive control is formulated; to obtain the optimal solution of the formulated nonlinear optimization problem, after the minimum fuel consumption table and the corresponding optimal control variable tables are obtained, the nonlinear optimization problem with discrete control variables is transformed into a 0-1 binary mixed linear programming problem. Simulation results showthat, compared with benchmarks, the proposed control strategy can significantly improve fuel efficiency under different passenger comfort requirements, allowed speed ranges, and predictive control horizons.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2848480
IEEE ACCESS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Road vehicles,cooperative systems,fuel economy,distributed control,integer linear programming
Nonlinear system,Optimal control,Platoon,Computer science,Control theory,Model predictive control,Look-ahead,Control variable,Linear programming,Fuel efficiency,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
6
2169-3536
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chunjie Zhai1101.87
Fei Luo284.53
Yonggui Liu3458.63