The vehicle platoon controller in the decentralised, autonomous intersection management of vehicles

The vehicle platoon controller to be presented here plays an important part in the latest generation of the decentralised, autonomous intersection management. It is the executing instance in the intersection management and combines the results from different optimisations done by the vehicles on their way into the intersection in order to ensure optimum crossing of the intersection. To do so it must not only be platoon-stable but also have an enlarged functionality in comparison to a conventional platoon controller. In the following we present all relevant aspects for the design of the platoon controller and its use in simulations of the intersection management.