Title :
Adaptive Vehicle Following Control System with Variable Time Headways
Author :
Zhang, Jianlong ; Ioannou, Petros
Author_Institution :
Student Member, IEEE, Center for Advanced Transportation Technologies, Department of Electrical Engineering - Systems, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA (phone: 213-740-2357; fax: 213-821-1109; e-mail: jianlong.zhang@usc.edu).
Abstract :
In this paper, we design a vehicle following control system with variable time headways, using adaptive control design methodology. It is shown that the designed vehicle following control system guarantees closed-loop system stability, and that it regulates the speed and separation errors towards zero when the lead vehicle is at a constant speed. Simulation results are presented to demonstrate the performance of the proposed vehicle following control system when applied to a validated nonlinear vehicle model.
Keywords :
Adaptive control; Automated highways; Automatic control; Control design; Control systems; Programmable control; Road safety; Road transportation; Stability; Vehicles;
Conference_Titel :
Decision and Control, 2005 and 2005 European Control Conference. CDC-ECC '05. 44th IEEE Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9567-0
DOI :
10.1109/CDC.2005.1582767
