This report presents the work on the development of the regulation layer for automated merging. It includes system modeling, control system synthesis, theoretical analysis and real-rime implementation and field test. The essential part is a rather general adaptive merging algorithm. Key words:...

This dissertation investigates various platooning strategies and their impact on the performance of the platoon. Various decentralized control algorithms are designed and their performance is characterized in terms of the minimum attenuation of the maximum spacing errors that can be guaranteed...

In this report, the estimation of longitudinal states in a four-wheel platoon is derived, discussed and illustrated numerically. The general procedure in the process is the use of dynamic equations and data, for finding the estimates and root means squared errors in the estimated of the states...

This report is presented in two parts: the first part describes a design and implementation methodology for real time software suitable for control of mechanical systems such as vehicles. This method provides for a design description of the system, a means of capturing the system structure in...

This study demonstrates the use of an additive fuzzy system to control the velocity and gap of cars in a single lane two-car platoon. A throttle- only controller and a combined throttle and braker controller were tested. Simulation results show that follower cars with a combined brake/ throttle...

In this paper, two models were developed to describe the lateral dynamics of a vehicle for different purposes. The lateral feedback and feedforward controllers are designed to satisfy the above objective based on a linearized model, which includes only the lateral and yaw motions. The...