The most distinct advantage of electric vehicle is its quick and precise torque generation. However, most electric vehicles developed until now have not yet utilized it. In this paper, two novel traction control techniques of electric vehicle using this advantage are proposed. One is the model following control and another is the optimal slip ratio control. The basic effectiveness of the propos...

1 In natural traffic flow, the information from preceding vehicles determines driver behavior predominantly. 2 With the availability of connected vehicle technologies (CVT), drivers can receive information from both 3 preceding and following vehicles. This creates new opportunities for vehicle coordination and control at 4 the microscopic level based on bi-directional information. Although the ...

This paper proposes a rule-based car-following model to simulate the driver decision process and model the associated vehicle longitudinal action in the car-following regime. In order to analyze individual driver characteristics and extract driving behavior rules, a fuzzy rule based neural network is constructed with the objective of presenting driver action rules under the associated traffic s...

This paper presents a new type of coupled-vehicle system: a five-axle, three-steering coupled-vehicle system consisting of two vehicles which are car-like mobile robots, two carriers, and a steering system, and presents its path-following feedback control method. We first show that, by assuming virtual mechanical elements, it is possible to convert the kinematical equation of the coupled-vehicl...

This paper explores how autonomous driving agents drive through intersections in virtual urban environments. The knowledge about where a vehicle runs on an intersection is embedded in environment database. Control of how and when a vehicle runs through an intersection is provided by vehicle behaviors. Vehicle control for traversing an intersection is divided into cruising behavior, following be...

Communication technologies and the management of context aware information are two key researching lines in the intelligent transportation domain. A suited network infrastructure which allows Vehicle to Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle to Infrastructure (V2I) communications, on one hand, and the provision of location-based information adapted to the driver, on the other hand, comprise two important co...

This paper proposes an algorithm that drives a unicycle type robot to a desired path, including obstacle avoidance capabilities. The path-following control design relies on Lyapunov theory, backstepping techniques and deals explicitly with vehicle dynamics. Furthermore, it overcomes the initial condition constraints present in a number of path-following control strategies described in the liter...

|This paper describes a path planning and control structure for an autonomous vehicle. The system consists of the following tasks: A route planning module generates a route leading from a starting point to a destination point using static information from a digital map. The sensor fusion module interprets sensor observations from a number of dissimilar sensors in order to detect and identify al...

This paper reviews and compares car-following and lanechanging logics embedded in some microscopic traffic simulation models, and comments are made on the existing techniques of traffic simulation. Future directions of traffic simulation are identified in three aspects: vehicle modeling, driver modeling, and vehicle movement modeling. To illustrate these ideas, a conceptual model, 2DSIM, is pro...