Compact Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control for Energy Saving: Air Drag Modelling and Simulation

This paper studies the value of communicated motion predictions in longitudinal control connected automated vehicles (CAVs). We focus on a safe cooperative adaptive cruise (CACC) design and analyze vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication presence uncertain front vehicle acceleration. The interest CACC is motivated by potential improvement energy consumption road throughput. In order to quantify this potential, we characterize experimentally relationship between inter-vehicular gap, speed, (reduction of) for compact plug-in hybrid electric vehicle. resulting model leveraged show efficacy our design, which pursues small inter-vehicle gaps consecutive CAVs and, therefore, improved efficiency. Our proposed based robust predictive framework systematically account system uncertainties. present set thorough simulations aimed at quantifying efficiency when states exchanged via V2V are used law.