Cooperative Longitudinal Control for Commercial Vehicles

Increasing traffic is likely to make cooperation more and more necessary in the future. Further fuel efficiency is very important for commercial vehicles, because of the high proportion of total vehicle ownership costs that are made up of fuel costs. Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communication enables new opportunities for automated driving, e.g. collaborative driving, instead of selfish driving. This paper combines cooperative and fuel-efficient driving and proposes an approach for cooperative longitudinal control for commercial vehicles. A strategy trajectory ensures a long look-ahead distance, which allows fuel-efficient driving, e.g. allows the vehicle to recognize the optimal start point of a roll maneuver early without high computational power. This long look-ahead preview leads to a fuel-efficient longitudinal control for commercial vehicles. Furthermore, planned and desired trajectories allow cooperation with other road users. Finally, vehicle simulation with a virtual test driving software evaluates the implemented algorithm.     «

Increasing traffic is likely to make cooperation more and more necessary in the future. Further fuel efficiency is very important for commercial vehicles, because of the high proportion of total vehicle ownership costs that are made up of fuel costs. Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communication enables new opportunities for automated driving, e.g. collaborative driving, instead of selfish driving. This paper combines cooperative and fuel-efficient driving and proposes an approach for cooperative l...     »