Minimizing the Inter-vehicle Distances of the Time Headway Policy for Platoon Control on Highways

Alan Ali, Gaetan Garcia, Philippe Martinet

2013

Abstract

Heavy traffic on highways requires the optimization of inter-distances between vehicles in order to reach time performance and to provide safety solution in transport. Variable spacing and constant spacing are the two policies for the longitudinal control of platoon. Variable spacing doesn’t require a lot of data (position, speed...) from other vehicles, and string stability using only on-board information is obtained. However, intervehicle distances are very large, and hence traffic density is low. Constant spacing can offer string stability with high traffic density, but it requires at least data from the leader. In this paper, a novel expression of the variable spacing policy has been proposed. It is effective to decrease the distance between the cars, to become nearly equal to the constant spacing policy. It also enables increasing the string stability and the robustness of the control regarding to unmodeled lags, and it can avoid control torque saturation. This novel approach doesn’t require heavy communication between the cars. The new control law has been evaluated by simulation with perfect system using Matlab, and with imperfect system using TORCS. The good results have demonstrated the effectiveness of the novel approach.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Ali A., Garcia G. and Martinet P. (2013). Minimizing the Inter-vehicle Distances of the Time Headway Policy for Platoon Control on Highways . In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO, ISBN 978-989-8565-71-6, pages 417-424. DOI: 10.5220/0004497704170424

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icinco13,
author={Alan Ali and Gaetan Garcia and Philippe Martinet},
title={Minimizing the Inter-vehicle Distances of the Time Headway Policy for Platoon Control on Highways},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO,},
year={2013},
pages={417-424},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004497704170424},
isbn={978-989-8565-71-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO,
TI - Minimizing the Inter-vehicle Distances of the Time Headway Policy for Platoon Control on Highways
SN - 978-989-8565-71-6
AU - Ali A.
AU - Garcia G.
AU - Martinet P.
PY - 2013
SP - 417
EP - 424
DO - 10.5220/0004497704170424