Hybrid controller design for safe maneuvering in the PATH AHS architecture

Author

Alvarez, Luis ; Horowitz, Roberto

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mech. Eng., California Univ., Berkeley, CA, USA

Volume

4

fYear

1997

fDate

4-6 Jun 1997

Firstpage

2454

Abstract

The design of safe control laws for normal mode regulation layer maneuvers of the automated highway system (AHS) hierarchical architecture in the California PATH program is addressed. Safety is equated to the absence of vehicle collisions at any speed. It is shown that it is possible to design safe control laws that keep the state of the platoons inside a state dependent safety region for all state transitions of the coordination layer finite state machines. This design allows the complete decoupled verification of the hybrid system composed by the normal mode regulation and coordination layers

Keywords

automated highways; finite state machines; hierarchical systems; position control; road vehicles; safety systems; California PATH program; automated highway system; coordination layer; finite state machines; hierarchical architecture; hybrid system; platoons; safe control; state transitions; Automata; Automated highways; Control systems; Mechanical engineering; Open loop systems; Organizing; Road accidents; Road vehicles; Space vehicles; Vehicle safety;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

American Control Conference, 1997. Proceedings of the 1997

Conference_Location

Albuquerque, NM

ISSN

0743-1619

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3832-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ACC.1997.609195

Filename

609195