Safe and efficient communication protocols for platooning control
Platooning can have an enormous impact on future transportation systems by increasing traffic flow (and thus reducing congestion), increasing safety, reducing CO2 emissions, and reducing the stress of driving. In this thesis we are mostly concerned with the communication aspects of this application, which is fundamental for making the vehicles cooperate, improving the efficiency of the application with respect to a pure sensor-based solution. Application requirements are very tight and, given that the envisioned communication technology will be IEEE 802.11-based, there are concerns on whether these requirements can really be met. The focus of the thesis is in this direction. The first contribution is the design of PLEXE, an extension for the widely used vehicular simulation framework Veins that enables research studies on various platooning aspects, including design and evaluation of control algorithms, communication protocols, and applications. The second contribution is a set of undirected information broadcasting (beaconing) protocols that specifically take into account the requirements of the application. The final contribution is a platooning control algorithm that, compared to state of the art approaches, is re-configurable at run-time and that can be adapted to network conditions. We thoroughly test the algorithm in highly challenging scenarios. The algorithm is shown to be robust to network and external disturbances, to have a fast convergence, and to be very stable. The results in this work thus represent a big step towards the real world implementation of platooning systems.
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Supplemental Notes:
- PhD thesis
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Authors:
- Segata, M
- Publication Date: 2016-3
Language
- English
Media Info
- Pagination: 1 file
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Advanced vehicle control systems; Advanced vehicle control systems; Bunching; Computer programs; System architecture; Vehicle to vehicle communications
- ATRI Terms: Advanced vehicle control systems (AVCS); Bunching; Computer program; System architecture; Vehicle to vehicle communications
- ITRD Terms: 8735: Intelligent transport system
- Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01604789
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: ARRB
- Files: ATRI
- Created Date: Jul 18 2016 4:46PM