Title :
Finite-time road grade computation for a vehicle platoon
Author :
Tao Yang ; Ye Yuan ; Kezhi Li ; Goncalves, Jorge ; Johansson, Karl H.
Author_Institution :
ACCESS Linnaeus Centre, R. Inst. of Technol., Stockholm, Sweden
Abstract :
Given a platoon of vehicles traveling uphill, this paper considers the finite-time road grade computation problem. We propose a decentralized algorithm for an arbitrarily chosen vehicle to compute the road grade in a finite number of time-steps by using only its own successive velocity measurements. Simulations then illustrate the theoretical results. These new results can be applied to real-world vehicle platooning problems to reduce fuel consumption and carbon dioxide emissions.
Keywords :
air pollution control; decentralised control; energy conservation; road traffic control; road vehicles; carbon dioxide emission reduction; decentralized algorithm; finite-time road grade computation; fuel consumption reduction; vehicle platoon; velocity measurement; Polynomials; Roads; Topology; Vectors; Vehicle dynamics; Vehicles; Velocity measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Decision and Control (CDC), 2014 IEEE 53rd Annual Conference on
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-7746-8
DOI :
10.1109/CDC.2014.7040345
