Study on the longitudinal and lateral coupled controlling method of an intelligent vehicle platoon

Abstract

Intelligent Vehicle(IV) is an important component of Intelligent Transport System(ITS) which includes automatic navigation system, high efficient traffic manage system, vehicle platoon system and so on. An efficient longitudinal and lateral coupled controller of an intelligent vehicle platoon is designed in this paper, through which vehicles in the platoon can realize the path-following task on both a straight lane and a curvilinear one. The model of this controller is designed in Matlab/Simulink environment and the simulation result is analyzed at the end of this paper. © 2012 Springer-Verlag GmbH.