Robust Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control of Hybrid Electric Vehicles in Complex Urban Traffic Situations

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Cooperative driving has received a great deal of attention in past years. Recent advances in vehicular communication systems enable the development of more intelligent driving assistance systems for a fleet of connected vehicles. Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Controller (CACC) is a driver assistance system for adjusting inter-vehicle distances through data exchanges between cars provided by wireless vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications. In addition to vehicle safety and driver comfort, CACCs can improve significantly fuel economy by substantially reducing successive stop-and-go driving, especially in urban areas. In a string of vehicles supported by CACCs, the cars can accelerate or brake with less delays to minimize inter-vehicle distances, which leads to optimized traffic efficiency and enhanced road capacity. However, developing reliable CACCs for practical implementations, especially for urban driving, is a challenge. Sudden disturbances arising from a wide range of complex traffic scenarios, such as frequent stop-and-go driving sometimes with harsh decelerations and accelerations due to traffic lights, intersections, and emergency stops, as well as overtaking, lane-changing, cut-in and cut-out maneuvers, along with other sources of uncertainty like V2V communication defects and unexpected behavior of manually driven cars, can deteriorate the string stability of platoon and lead to car accidents.