Deadzone switching based cooperative adaptive cruise control with rear-end collision check

In this paper we present a new cooperative adaptive cruise control with rear-end collision check employing deadzone switching techniques. The corresponding control task is to maintain desired spacing between consequent vehicles in a platoon using a decentralized control structure robust to sensor noises, whose magnitudes are assumed to be bounded from above by some known limits. The approach considered here follows a switching control design based on dead-zone using the relative velocity and position of the two closest neighbours.