Transitions to manual control from highly automated driving in non-critical truck platooning scenarios

Automated truck platooning is getting an increasing interest for its potentially beneficial effects on fuel consumption, driver workload, traffic flow efficiency, and safety. Nevertheless, one major challenge lies in the safe and comfortable transitions of control from the automated system back to the human drivers, especially when they have...

The effect of see-through truck on driver monitoring patterns and responses to critical events in truck platooning

Automated platooning of trucks has its beneficial effects on energy saving and traffic flow efficiency. The vehicles in a platoon, however, need to maintain an extremely short headway to achieve these goals, which will result in a heavily blocked front view for the driver in a following truck. Monitoring surrounding traffic environment and...

A Multi-Layer Control Approach to Truck Platooning: Platoon Cohesion subject to Dynamical Limitations

This paper presents a multi-layer approach to Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC) to improve the platoon cohesion subject to limited vehicle actuation capabilities. The objective of the design is to guarantee that the vehicles in the platoon keep their desired relative position, while maintaining desirable platoon properties in terms of...

Human enhancement

Truck platooning. Two or three trucks connected by a ‘virtual tow bar’. The leading truck is controlled by a driver while the following trucks accelerate, brake and steer all by themselves without the intervention of a driver. Platooning saves on fuel, cuts emissions and optimises costs. And the driver sitting in the second or third truck can...