CONTROL STRUCTURES FOR VEHICLE CONVOY CONTROL

The present paper related the contribution by the Paderborn group to a joint project of five universities. "Vehicle convoy control", i.e. the automated convoy made up of two or more passenger cars of which only the leading one is equpped with a driver, is the application at the centre of this project. On the basis of the modelling, this contribution will present approaches to the control of lateral and longitudinal dynamics, which are treated independently of one another in a first approach. The aim is to build up a follow-up control with a guiding vehicle in front. It is assumed that the car next to it possesses a sensor system measuring the relative distance, which means that the lateral and longitudinal distances as well as the relative torsion (yaw-angle difference) of the two vehicles can be evaluated. The experimental works connected to this project is discussed and the combined control fo a vehicle and a model for the generation of the reference distance is given. (A)

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  Swets & Zeitlinger

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• Authors:
  • SEUSS, J
  • RICHERT, J
• Publication Date: 1997-12

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 339-56
• Serial:
  • Vehicle System Dynamics
  • Volume: 28
  • Issue Number: 6
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISSN: 0042-3114
  • EISSN: 1744-5159
  • Serial URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/nvsd20/current

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automatic control; Automation; Bunching; Intelligent transportation systems; Vehicle spacing
• ITRD Terms: 3882: Automatic; 652: Bunching; 8531: Case study; 694: Vehicle spacing
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00765827
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD, ATRI
• Created Date: Jul 1 1999 12:00AM