Context-dependent reconfiguration of autonomous vehicles in mixed traffic

A Human-centered Test-bed for Mixed Traffic of Autonomous and Non-autonomous Vehicles

A vehicular ad hoc network (VANET) is a vehicular-wireless network enabling vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications and vehicle to infrastructure (V2I) communications. VANET has been under the international spotlight because various applications can be developed by leveraging those wireless communications to avoid vehicular collisions or to save energies. Most of VANET applications have been de...

Freeway Lane Management Approach In Mixed Traffic Environment with Connected Autonomous Vehicles

Connected autonomous vehicles (CAV) technologies are about to be in the market in the near future. This requires transportation facilities ready to operate in a mixed traffic environment where a portion of vehicles are CAVs and the remaining are manual vehicles. Since CAVs are able to run with less spacing and headway compared with manual vehicles or mixed traffic, allocating a number of freewa...

Optimization-based formation reconfiguration planning for autonomous vehicles

Given a group of autonomous vehicles, an initial configuration, a final configuration, a set of interand intravehicle constraints, and a time for reconfiguration, the Formation Reconfiguration Planning problem is focused on determining a nominal input trajectory for each vehicle such that the group can start from the initial configuration and reach its final configuration at the specified time ...

An Investigation of Novel Reconfiguration Methods for Use in Autonomous and Semi - autonomous Vehicles

Autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicles, or indeed groups of such vehicles working in cooperation, must continue to operate effectively and predictably under uncertain and time varying conditions. A unified theoretical approach to this reconfiguration problem has been postulated. In this paper the concept is illustrated by an appropriate vignette relating to semiautonomous operation of tanks in ...

What do autonomous vehicles mean to traffic congestion and crash? Network traffic flow modeling and simulation for autonomous vehicles