Strategic Coordination of Cooperative Truck Overtaking Maneuvers

This paper demonstrates how a cooperative truck overtaking maneuver can be coordinated and synchronized via V2X. This is relevant because the classical truck overtaking maneuver imposes high stress on truck drivers, which can lead to work absences or accidents. We define which abstract/atomic tasks are involved in the truck overtaking maneuver and assign them to a distributed state machine. With the help of a V2X message we then synchronize this state machine and exchange all information relevant for the overtaking maneuver. The simulation of 600 overtaking scenarios demonstrates that the developed concept is adequate and that a transmission frequency of 5 Hz offers the best trade-off between channel load and maneuver quality.      «

This paper demonstrates how a cooperative truck overtaking maneuver can be coordinated and synchronized via V2X. This is relevant because the classical truck overtaking maneuver imposes high stress on truck drivers, which can lead to work absences or accidents. We define which abstract/atomic tasks are involved in the truck overtaking maneuver and assign them to a distributed state machine. With the help of a V2X message we then synchronize this state machine and exchange all information relevan...     »