Platooning with IVC-enabled autonomous vehicles: Strategies to mitigate communication delays, improve safety and traffic flow

P Fernandes, U Nunes - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Intraplatoon information management strategies for dealing with safe and stable operation
are proposed in this paper. New algorithms to mitigate communication delays are presented …

Communication information structures and contents for enhanced safety of highway vehicle platoons

L Xu, G Yin, H Zhang - IEEE Transactions on vehicular …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Highway platooning of vehicles has been identified as a promising framework in develo**
intelligent transportation systems. By autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle control and …

Second order sliding mode control of vehicles with distributed collision avoidance capabilities

A Ferrara, C Vecchio - Mechatronics, 2009 - Elsevier
Recent research has shown that the longitudinal control of platoons of vehicles is
appropriate to improve the traffic capacity of road networks while maintaining the safety …

Adaptable robot formation control: Adaptive and predictive formation control of autonomous vehicles

A Guillet, R Lenain, B Thuilot… - IEEE Robotics & …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The ability to use cooperative small vehicles is of interest in many applications. From
material transportation to farming operations, the use of small machines achieving small …

A control strategy for platoons of differential drive wheeled mobile robot

G Klančar, D Matko, S Blažič - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2011 - Elsevier
The strategy for the control of vehicle platooning is proposed and tested on different mobile
robot platforms. The decentralized platooning is considered, ie a virtual train of vehicles …

Merging strategies, trajectory planning and controls for platoon of connected, and autonomous vehicles

M Goli, A Eskandarian - International Journal of Intelligent Transportation …, 2020 - Springer
This paper addresses the problem of connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) merging
into platoons in a communication-enabled environment, and studies different aspects of …

Wheeled mobile robots control in a linear platoon

G Klančar, D Matko, S Blažič - Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, 2009 - Springer
Future transportation systems will require a number of drastic measures, mostly to lower
traffic jams and air pollution in urban areas. Automatically guided vehicles capable of driving …

Decentralized platooning with obstacle avoidance for car-like vehicles with limited sensing

IM Delimpaltadakis, CP Bechlioulis… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, we consider the predecessor-following control problem for a platoon of car-like
vehicles moving on a planar surface with cyclic obstacles. Each vehicle is equipped with an …

Attractor dynamics approach to formation control: theory and application

S Monteiro, E Bicho - Autonomous Robots, 2010 - Springer
In this paper we show how non-linear attractor dynamics can be used as a framework to
control teams of autonomous mobile robots that should navigate according to a predefined …

Platooning of car-like vehicles in urban environments: An observer-based approach considering actuator dynamics and time delays

A Khalifa, O Kermorgant, S Dominguez… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a distributed observer-based approach is proposed to control the longitudinal
motion of car-like vehicle platoon moving in an urban environment. To the best of our …