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Automotive Engineering ›› 2022, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (2): 179-189.doi: 10.19562/j.chinasae.qcgc.2022.02.004

Special Issue: 智能网联汽车技术专题-规划&控制2022年

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Model Predictive Control Method for Vehicle Platoon Under Cloud Control Scenes

Fei Zhao1,Jian Wang1,Tianlei Zhang1,2,Li Wang2(),Deyi Li1,3   

  1. 1.School of Transportation Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191
    2.Beijing Trunk Technology Co. , Ltd. , Beijing 100191
    3.Chinese Academy of Engineering, Beijing 100088
  • Received:2021-09-06 Revised:2021-11-04 Online:2022-02-25 Published:2022-02-24
  • Contact: Li Wang E-mail:82182313@qq.com

Abstract:

In view of that when the edge cloud is used for centralized vehicle platoon control, the time delay in communications will degrade the performance indicators of platoon control, even result in the instability of platoon, proceeding from the multi-objective optimization of platoon efficacy with consideration of the time delay in communications and the nonlinear longitudinal dynamics characteristics of vehicle, an edge-cloud based centralized model predictive control algorithm for platoon is proposed and a time delay compensation method is designed in this paper. The asymptotic stability of the control algorithm is analyzed first. Then a simulation test is conducted on different time delays to verify the string stability of control algorithm and the effectiveness of random time delay compensation method in certain range of time delay. Finally, the effects of time delay on platoon stability and fuel consumption are analyzed. The results show that the platoon stability and fuel economy will worsen with the time delay increases and when the time delay reaches 250 ms with a fluctuation of 20% the platoon will be on the verse of instability.

Key words: vehicle platoon, cloud control, time delay, centralized network control, model predictive control