Controller Design for Cooperative Driving with Guaranteed Safe Behavior

A shortcoming of many Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC) schemes is the lack of a guarantee of safe vehicle behavior in a platoon, i.e., making sure that a vehicle does not collide with its preceding vehicle in case the latter performs a deceleration outside the operational range of the CACC system. To overcome that problem, this paper...

Cooperative Automated Maneuvering at the 2016 Grand Cooperative Driving Challenge

Cooperative adaptive cruise control and platooning are well-known applications in the field of cooperative automated driving. However, extension toward maneuvering is desired to accommodate common highway maneuvers, such as merging, and to enable urban applications. To this end, a layered control architecture is adopted. In this architecture,...

Fault tolerancy in Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control

Future mobility requires sound solutions in the field of fault tolerance in real-time applications amongst which Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC). This control system cannot rely on the driver as a backup and is constantly active and therefore more prominent to the occurrences of faults (such as packet loss in the wireless...

Cooperative competition for future mobility

In May 2011, the Grand Cooperative Driving Challenge (GCDC) was held, providing the possibility for teams to develop and compare their cooperative driving solutions in a competitive setting. The challenge was organized to further accelerate developments in the area of cooperative driving. Nine international teams challenged each other to handle...

A tool suite for developing and evaluating cooperative driving systems

Cooperative driving systems influence individual vehicles, either through advisory or autonomous actions, so as to optimize the collective behavior in terms of throughput, safety, fuel consumption and/or emissions. Cooperative driving systems need to function properly in a vast amount of different traffic scenarios. However, performing field...

Connected Cruise Control: Driver response to the advisory system

Connected Cruise Control (CCC) is a system, that is currently under development within a HTAS project. CCC aims to improve throughput in dense motorway traffic by advising drivers how to drive. The advice will integrate a lane advice, a headway advice and speed advice. The CCC advice will be provided via a nomadic device, using input from...

Advisory and autonomous cooperative driving systems

In this paper, the traffic efficiency of an advisory cooperative driving system, Advisory Acceleration Control is examined and compared to the efficiency of an autonomous cooperative driving system, Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control. The algorithms and implementation thereof are explained. The results of both systems are presented and...

Dutch Integrated Testsite Cooperative Mobility: Testing from concept to deployment

Connect & Drive: Design and evaluation of cooperative adaptive cruise control for congestion reduction

Road throughput can be increased by driving at small inter-vehicle time gaps. The amplification of velocity disturbances in upstream direction, however, poses limitations to the minimum feasible time gap. This effect is covered by the notion of string stability. String-stable behavior is thus considered an essential requirement for the design of...

A270 Demo Schokgolfdemping

In februari 2010 zijn een aantal grootschalige experimenten uitgevoerd op de A270 tussen Helmond en Eindhoven. Het doel van deze experimenten is om de potentie van coöperatieve systemen te demonstreren voor het dempen van schokgolven en daarmee de mobiliteit op de Nederlandse snelwegen te kunnen vergroten. De experimenten vinden plaats op een...

Accelerating cooperative systems' development through the Grand Cooperative Driving challenge

Cooperative driving systems comprise an important research area. They are considered a promising solution for reducing traffic congestion, reducing environmental impact and improving traffic safety and driver comfort. The key to these systems is the communication and interaction between vehicles and between vehicles and road side infrastructure....