Effects of vehicle-vehicle/roadside-vehicle communication on adaptive cruise controlled highway systems

Author

Xu, Qing ; Hedrick, Karl ; Sengupta, Raja ; VanderWerf, Joel

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mech. Eng., California Univ., Berkeley, CA, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

1249

Abstract

We study the effect of vehicle vehicle/vehicle-roadside communication on the performance of adaptive cruise control (ACC) systems. Two simulation works are presented One is a single ACC vehicle simulation using MATLAB/SIMULINK. A cut-in scenario and a braking scenario are tested Communication greatly saves control effort in the former scenario, while has little effect in the latter. The other work simulates ACC controlled highway merging with SHIFT language. The results show beneficial effects of communication in terms of braking effort, waiting-to-merge queue length, and main lane traffic shock wave caused by merging.

Keywords

adaptive control; automated highways; braking; digital simulation; land mobile radio; road vehicles; ACC controlled highway; ACC vehicle simulation; MATLAB/SIMULINK; SHIFT language; adaptive cruise controlled highway systems; braking effort; braking scenario; cut-in scenario; main lane traffic shock wave; system performance; vehicle-vehicle/roadside-vehicle communication; waiting-to-merge queue length; wireless communication; Adaptive control; Communication system control; Communication system traffic control; Control systems; MATLAB; Merging; Programmable control; Road transportation; Testing; Vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2002. Proceedings. VTC 2002-Fall. 2002 IEEE 56th

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7467-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECF.2002.1040805

Filename

1040805