Inter-vehicle communications for merging control

Author

Sakaguchi, Takeshi ; Uno, Atsuya ; Tsugawa, Sadayuki

Author_Institution

Mech. Eng. Lab., MITI, Ibaraki, Japan

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

365

Abstract

This paper proposes a data transmission algorithm over inter-vehicle communications and a merging control algorithm, and describes the simulation studies and experiments using autonomous mobile robots with wireless LAN for the evaluation of the feasibility of the data transmission and merging control algorithms. The merging control algorithm uses a virtual vehicle which is generated by mapping a vehicle on a main lane or a ramp in order to achieve longitudinal control between a vehicle at a ramp and one on a main lane. The results of the simulations show the efficiency of the data transmission and the feasibility of the merging control using this algorithm. This algorithm was implemented in autonomous mobile robots with a control system and an on-board communications system using wireless LAN for the evaluation

Keywords

control system analysis; control system synthesis; road traffic; road vehicles; telecontrol; traffic control; traffic engineering computing; wireless LAN; autonomous mobile robots; control algorithm; control design; control simulation; data transmission algorithm; inter-vehicle communications; on-board communications; traffic merging control; virtual vehicle; wireless LAN; Communication system control; Control systems; Data communication; Merging; Mobile communication; Mobile robots; Remotely operated vehicles; Robot control; Round robin; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicle Electronics Conference, 1999. (IVEC '99) Proceedings of the IEEE International

Conference_Location

Changchun

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5296-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IVEC.1999.830706

Filename

830706