Vehicle Following Control Design for Automated Highway Systems [25 Years Ago]

Automatic vehicle following is an important feature of a fully or partially automated highway system (AHS). The on-board control should be able to accept and process inputs from the driver, infrastructure, other vehicles, perform diagnostics, provide appropriate commands actuators so that resulting motion safe compatible with AHS objectives. purpose this article design test in order achieve full automation longitudinal direction for several modes operation, where infrastructure manages following. These include autonomous cooperative following, platooning. consists supervisory controller processes onboard sensors sends brake throttle controllers. In addition, makes decisions about normal, emergency, transition operations. Simulation results some basic maneuvers are used verify claimed performance designed Experiments on Interstate-15 demonstrate without vehicle-to-vehicle communications actual environment also included.