Stability of Adaptive Cruise Control of Automated Vehicle Platoon under Constant Time Headway Policy

Abstract

Traffic congestion is becoming more prevalent as the number of vehicles on the roads continues to rise.To shorten travel times and enhance driver comfort, a range of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) has been developed to assist drivers in urban areas and on highways. The demand for increasing road capacity has introduced the concept of vehicle platooning, where the use of the Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) system is a key function within the advanced driver assistance (ADAS) technology, this technology manages the vehicle's longitu-dinal control in specific driving conditions. Cars equipped with ACC can efficiently maintain a set distance from the vehicle ahead, easing the driver’s workload while offering advantages such as improved road capacity, lower fuel consumption, and reduced pollution emissions. However, they can be susceptible to string instability, resulting in the amplification of oscillations caused by speed variations along the platoon's rear. This paper presents a string stability analysis of car platoons equipped with ACC system based on a heuristic method by choosing of the constant time headway policy (CTHP). The constant time headway policy selection for string stability is based on the Nyquist diagram of the transfer function of the spacing errors between two cars. A platoon operated by using distance-based ACC control structures is implemented. These structures employ a linear quadratic regulator (LQR) using a dual integrator. The simulation results were acquired by modeling and simulating the studied platoon within Matlab/Simulink.

Keywords

• String Stability
• ADAS
• Linear Quadratic Integral Regulator
• Platooning
• Adaptive Cruise Control

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