Experimental evaluation of decentralized cooperative cruise control for heavy-duty vehicle platooning

Control Engineering Practice

Volumn 38, Issue , 2015, Pages 11-25

  Alam, Assad ^a,b   Mårtensson, Jonas ^b   Johansson, Karl H ^b  

^a SCANIA CV AB   (Sweden)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Adaptive intelligent cruise control; Heavy duty vehicle; Linear quadratic control; Platooning; Vehicle to vehicle communication

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; LINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; TRAFFIC CONTROL; TRANSIENT ANALYSIS; VEHICLE TO VEHICLE COMMUNICATIONS; VEHICLES;

CONTROLLER PERFORMANCE; DECENTRALIZED CONTROLLER; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; HEAVY DUTY VEHICLES; LINEAR QUADRATIC CONTROL; NUMERICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; PLATOONING; PLATOONING CONTROLLERS;

CONTROLLERS;

EID: 84922351104     PISSN: 09670661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conengprac.2014.12.009     Document Type: Article

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