Title :
Convoy driving through ad-hoc coalition formation
Author :
Khan, Majid Ali ; Bölöni, Ladislau
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Central Florida Univ., Orlando, FL, USA
Abstract :
Convoy driving on public highways is a useful phenomena which increases the safety and the throughput of the highway. We present an approach through which a wireless Convoy Driving Device assists the driver in the task of deciding to join or leave a convoy, influencing the speed and formation of the convoy. Our approach handles complex situations like the merging and splitting of convoys, and it offers valuable lessons with applications for other cases of teamwork of mobile entities.
Keywords :
automated highways; driver information systems; mobile computing; road safety; ad-hoc coalition formation; mobile entity; public highway; wireless Convoy Driving Device; Communication system control; Electrical safety; Hardware; Merging; Road safety; Road transportation; Road vehicles; Testing; Throughput; Vehicle driving;
Conference_Titel :
Real Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium, 2005. RTAS 2005. 11th IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2302-1
DOI :
10.1109/RTAS.2005.15