Design and Experimental Validation of a Cooperative Driving System in the Grand Cooperative Driving Challenge

Team AnnieWAY ’ s entry to the Grand Cooperative Driving Challenge 2011

In this paper we present the concepts and methods developed for the autonomous vehicle AnnieWAY, our winning entry to the Grand Cooperative Driving Challenge of 2011. We describe algorithms for sensor fusion, vehicle-to-vehicle communication and cooperative control. Furthermore, we analyze the performance of the proposed methods and compare them to those of competing teams. We close with our re...

Vehicle Control in Cooperative Driving

Analysis and design of controllers for cooperative and automated driving

Nowadays, throughput has become a limiting factor in road transport. An effective means to increase the road throughput is to decrease the intervehicle time gap. A small time gap, however, may lead to string instability, being the amplification of velocity disturbances in upstream direction. String-stable behavior is thus considered an essential requirement for the design of automatic distance ...

Peer-to-Peer Cooperative Driving

In this paper we address database-related issues in the emerging application field of ITS (Intelligent Transportation Systems). In this context we propose and study two cooperative driving scenarios: on-the-fly highway alert scenario and mutual driving group scenario. Vehicles cooperate and coordinate their actions by exchanging information, hence the need for database technologies such as cons...

A reference architecture for cooperative driving

Cooperative driving systems enable vehicles to adapt their motion to the surrounding tra c situation by utilizing information communicated by other vehicles and infrastructure in the vicinity. How should these systems be designed and integrated into the modern automobile? What are the needed functions, key architectural elements and their relationships? We created a reference architecture that ...