Guaranteeing safety for heavy duty vehicle platooning: Safe set computations and experimental evaluations

Control Engineering Practice

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 33-41

  Alam, Assad ^a,b   Gattami, Ather ^b   Johansson, Karl H ^b   Tomlin, Claire J ^c  

^a SCANIA CV AB   (Sweden)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive cruise control; Game theory; Heavy duty vehicle; Platooning; Safety analysis; Vehicle to vehicle communication

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL; AUTOMATION; GAME THEORY; VEHICLE TO VEHICLE COMMUNICATIONS;

COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; HEAVY DUTY VEHICLES; PLATOONING; RELATIVE DISTANCES; SAFETY ANALYSIS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS; WORST CASE SCENARIO;

VEHICLES;

EID: 84892503478     PISSN: 09670661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conengprac.2013.11.003     Document Type: Article

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