Adaptive cruise control design for enhancing stability

Abstract

This paper proposes an optimal design method for the adaptive cruise control model to enhance the string stability with the adaptive cruise control (ACC). First, the influence of control gain parameters on ACC and cooperative adaptive cruise control (CACC) systems is analyzed from theoretical and numerical perspectives. Second, we compared the ACC and CACC models. On this basis, an optimal control gain parameter is proposed to consider the string stability of the ACC platoon system. Finally, we designed numerical simulation experiments to verify the effectiveness of the proposed ACC (PACC) model. Results show that compared with the classical ACC model, the PACC model has certain advantages in recovery time, vehicle average velocity, velocity standard deviation, and vehicle collision safety. Moreover, PACC is suitable for most equilibrium velocity scenarios, and it has good string stability with different time gaps, unlike the ACC and CACC models. As a result, the PACC model has better string stability and robustness. Therefore, the PACC model can enhance the string stability and provide theoretical support for designing better ACC systems.

Keywords

Traffic flow / String stability / Autonomous vehicles / Adaptive cruise control / Vehicle platoon

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Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China(72471200)

Sichuan Science and Technology Program(2024NSFSC0179)

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