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Automotive Engineering ›› 2023, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (9): 1573-1582.doi: 10.19562/j.chinasae.qcgc.2023.09.007

Special Issue: 智能网联汽车技术专题-控制2023年

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Research on Delay Compensation Control for Heterogeneous Connected and Automated Vehicle Platoons

Jizheng Liu1,2,Zhenpo Wang1,2,Fengchun Sun1,2,Lei Zhang1,2()   

  1. 1.School of Mechanical Engineering,Beijing Institute of Technology,Beijing 100081
    2.National Engineering Research Center for Electric Vehicles,Beijing 100081
  • Received:2023-05-23 Revised:2023-06-08 Online:2023-09-25 Published:2023-09-23
  • Contact: Lei Zhang E-mail:lei_zhang@bit.edu.cn

Abstract:

Multi-vehicle platooning of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) can effectively reduce vehicle-following distance and improve traffic efficiency of the transportation system. However, platoon control needs to have the ability to accommodate heterogeneous platoons and to ensure the string stability against actuator and communication delays. This paper proposes a delay compensation control method for heterogeneous CAV platooning, which can realize the longitudinal tracking control of the CAV platoon utilizing the acceleration information of other vehicles without obtaining system dynamics characteristics and control input of other vehicles. Furthermore, a Smith-predictor-based delay compensation control scheme is proposed to negate the impact of actuator and communication delay on the string stability. The simulation results of typical working conditions show that the proposed delay compensation controller for heterogeneous CAV platoons can reduce the tracking error by 80.7% and effectively minimize the headway and vehicle-following distance, compared with the common vehicle platooning control mthods.

Key words: connected and automated vehicles, heterogeneous vehicle platoon, delay compensation, string stability