Join us on October 20 at 3:30 p.m. for this Sustainable Energy Seminar presentation by Xiaopeng Li, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Abstract
Automated vehicle (AV) following control impacts traffic safety, mobility, and energy. We investigated a parsimonious linear AV following model that captures the first-order parameters on the safety, mobility, and energy consumption aspects. The string stability results indicate that the minimum headway may be hardly achieved due to stability concerns, and practical AV control needs to either allow a longer headway to trade for string-stable traffic with less energy consumption or conversely accommodate moderate string instability (or allowing for some extra energy consumption) to trade for a smaller AV following headway. These findings are verified by field experiments with production vehicles. Vehicles of different powertrains are compared.
Registration
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