Vehicle Platooning With Non-Ideal Communication Networks

The performance and effectiveness of a vehicle platoon rely on the topology of information flow and quality of communications, such as delays and dropouts. In this paper, the authors investigate the homogeneous and constant-time-headway-spacing-policy-based vehicle platoon longitudinal control problem, where communication impairments including the limited communication range, random packet losses, and time-varying communication delays are considered. Here, internal stability characterizes the system stability without disturbance while string stability is concerned with the error amplification when the vehicle platoon is affected by external disturbances. First, for the case when each vehicle utilizes the position, velocity, and acceleration information of multiple preceding and following vehicles, the authors obtain sufficient conditions to guarantee the internal stability of the vehicle platoon system based on the stability of matrix polynomials and the matrix eigenvalue perturbation theory. Then, considering random packet losses, the authors find that the effectiveness of platoon control relies on the frequency of packets being successfully received, or the delay till a new packet is received. The authors also obtain the upper bound for delays on all communication links such that the internal stability of the vehicle platoon can still be maintained when time-varying communication delays are within the bound. The L₂-string stability is also analyzed through the transfer function for both ideal communication cases, and cases with uniform and constant delays. Extensive simulink-based numerical results validate the authors' analysis, which reveals how communication impairments affect platoon control with a realistic information flow topology.

• Record URL:
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TVT.2020.3046165
• Availability:
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Copyright © 2020, IEEE.
• Authors:
  • Zhao, Chengcheng
  • Duan, Xiaoming
  • Cai, Lin
  • Cheng, Peng
  • 0009-0002-5985-3836
• Publication Date: 2021-1

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 18-32
• Serial:
  • IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
  • Volume: 70
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
  • ISSN: 0018-9545
  • Serial URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=25

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Communication systems; Delays; Motor vehicles; Sensors; Stability analysis; Topology; Traffic platooning
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01765373
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 22 2021 10:20AM