Following performance evaluation of a mechanically coupled platoon

Author

Shinohara, Tetsuya ; Okada, Masafumi ; Yoshimoto, Ken-ichi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mechano-Informatics, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

91

Lastpage

96

Abstract

Coupling some trucks with the same destination is called a truck platoon system. The leading truck is driven manually and the following trucks are driven automatically by using sensors on the mechanical link. Mechanical links not only restrict the movability of the following trucks, but are also used for sensors. We evaluate the manipulability and the following performance on the linked platoon system. The relation between the measure of manipulability and the following performance is also explained. Finally, the optimized link formation is proposed in this paper

Keywords

automotive electronics; electric sensing devices; transport control; 3 DOF link; following performance evaluation; freight transportation; manipulability; mechanical link; mechanically coupled truck platoon; optimized link formation; sensors; Air pollution; Atmospheric measurements; Energy consumption; Jacobian matrices; Mechanical sensors; Mechanical variables measurement; Pollution measurement; Roads; Transportation; Vehicle driving;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicle Electronics Conference, 2001. IVEC 2001. Proceedings of the IEEE International

Conference_Location

Tottori

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7229-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IVEC.2001.961732

Filename

961732