Title :
Vehicle following control design for automated highway systems
Author :
Raza, H. ; Ioannou, P.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. Syst., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Abstract :
The purpose of this paper is to design and test a vehicle control system in order to achieve full vehicle automation in the longitudinal direction for several modes of operation, where the infrastructure manages the vehicle following. These modes include autonomous vehicles, cooperative vehicle following and platooning. The vehicle control system consists of a supervisory controller that processes the inputs from the driver, the infrastructure, other vehicles and the on-board sensors and sends the appropriate commands to the brake and throttle controllers. In addition, the controller makes decisions about normal, emergency and transition operations. Simulation results of some of the basic vehicle following manoeuvres are used to verify the claimed performance of the designed controllers
Keywords :
automated highways; automotive electronics; brakes; controllers; intelligent control; road traffic; traffic control; automated highway systems; autonomous vehicles; brake controller; cooperative vehicle following; emergency operations; infrastructure; longitudinal direction; normal operation; on-board sensors; performance; platooning; simulation results; supervisory controller; testing; throttle controller; transition operations; vehicle automation; vehicle control system; vehicle following control design; vehicle following manoeuvres; Automated highways; Automatic control; Automatic testing; Control design; Control systems; Mobile robots; Remotely operated vehicles; Road vehicles; System testing; Vehicle driving;
Conference_Titel :
Vehicular Technology Conference, 1997, IEEE 47th
Conference_Location :
Phoenix, AZ
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3659-3
DOI :
10.1109/VETEC.1997.600460
