Connected cruise control: modelling,delay effects,and nonlinear behaviour

Connected vehicle systems (CVS) are considered in this paper where vehicles exchange information using wireless vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication. The concept of connected cruise control (CCC) is established that allows control design at the level of individual vehicles while exploiting V2V connectivity. Due to its high level of modularity the proposed design can be applied to large heterogeneous traffic systems. The dynamics of a simple CVS is analysed in detail while taking into account nonlinearities in the vehicle dynamics as well as in the controller. Time delays that arise due to intermittencies and packet drops in the communication channels are also incorporated. The results are summarised using stability charts which allow one to select control gains to maintain stability and ensure disturbance attenuation when the delay is below a critical value.     

减速频次催生换道意图下自动驾驶车辆自适应换道模型

科学、合理、拟人化的换道控制是实现自动驾驶车辆安全高效行驶的重要保障,已有研究主要考虑相邻车道速度差、换道间隙等要素对车辆换道控制的影响,并未考虑车辆频繁加减速导致乘车体验差而催生换道意图这一重要现象。针对该问题,设计以抗干扰能力为基础的自动驾驶车辆自适应换道调控方法,其调控过程主要包括：采用智能驾驶人模型控制自动驾驶车辆纵向驾驶行为,以减速频次为指标度量自动驾驶车辆的抗干扰能力,并将抗干扰能力引入到自动驾驶车辆换道决策过程中,模拟自动驾驶车辆因频繁加减速导致乘车体验差而产生换道意图的现象,在此基础上,提出车辆换道控制模型。然后,以智慧高速为背景,利用Netlogo构建多种自动驾驶车辆运行场景,测试所构建的自适应换道调控方法。研究结果表明：智能驾驶人模型的选用能够合理体现自动驾驶车辆换道行为对交通流的运行影响;相比于低密度车流（≤30 veh）,在中高密度车流情况下（≥40 veh）,自动驾驶车辆维持原有车道运行的能力较弱、换道频率较高,且过高[80次·（5 min）^-1]或过低[10次·（5 min）^-1]的抗干扰能力临界值会导致自动驾驶车辆运行速度降低至10 km·h^-1,因此可以根据不同车流密度条件对自动驾驶车辆的最大抗干扰能力进行设置和调整,从而保证自动驾驶车辆的运行效率,这也从侧面证明了所提自适应换道调控方法的科学性与合理性。研究结果对于提高自动驾驶车辆换道控制的合理自主性具有重要意义,该结果进一步完善了自动驾驶车辆换道模型库,能够为自动驾驶自适应换道调控提供理论和技术支撑。     

车路协同条件下智能网联汽车一体化决策模型

为了探索当前有限数据条件下面临的无限交通场景问题,提出车路协同条件下基于深度强化学习智能网联汽车决策模型。利用Actor-Critic机制,以highway-env为数据来源,抽取144 h交通数据作为训练数据并进行验证,分析了智能网联汽车在不同车道数条件下的驾驶行为。结果显示,本模型汽车行程时间减少20%以上,碰撞概率减少25%以上,换道轨迹可以通过动力学跟踪。     

消除高速公路运动波的可变限速控制方法

运动波是高速公路一种常见的交通拥堵，可通过可变限速控制有效消除。近年来，研究中提出了大量消除高速公路运动波的可变限速控制方法，却鲜有方法成功落地应用。可变限速控制方法的成功应用需满足3个基本条件，即模型预测的准确性，优化求解的实时性，以及控制方案的安全性，而当前研究中的方法难以同时满足上述基本条件。因此，为提高高速公路交通效率，保障高速公路交通安全，提出了消除高速公路运动波的可变限速优化控制方法。构建了模拟运动波传播的离散一阶交通流模型，解析了可变限速控制对交通效率及安全的影响机理，建立了提升交通效率、保障交通安全的可变限速优化控制方法。利用数值仿真模拟，测试了轻微拥堵与严重拥堵2种不同场景下限速控制方法的控制效果，评估了控制方法在提升交通效率和安全方面的表现，对比了所提方法与文献经典方法在控制效果上的优劣。结果表明：可变限速优化控制方法在2种场景下降低总行程时间分别为10.1%和10.6%，降低事故风险指标TET分别为72.6%和73.1%，降低事故风险指标TIT分别为92.4%和82.9%。与文献方法相比，在预测模型准确性以及对交通流效率与安全的改善方面均有提升，其中在严重拥堵测试场景下，效果提升更为显著。     

Traffic-balancing algorithm for can systems with dual communication channels to enhance the network capacity

The controller area network (CAN) is the dominant protocol for in-vehicle network (IVN) systems because it provides bounded transmission delay among electronic control units (ECUs) at data rates between 100 Kbps and 1 Mbps. Many automotive companies have chosen the CAN protocol for their chassis network system of intelligent vehicles. However, the increasing number of ECUs in intelligent vehicles and the need for more intelligent functions require a network system with more network capacity and real-time capability. As one approach to enhance the network capacity of a CAN system, this paper introduces a CAN system with dual communication channels. This paper also presents a traffic-balancing algorithm that predicts the traffic of each channel and allocates frames to the most appropriate channel. An experimental testbed using commercial off-the-shelf microcontrollers with two CAN controllers was used to demonstrate the feasibility of the traffic-balancing algorithm.     

智能网联车辆交通流优化对交通安全的改善

为改善常规驾驶车辆交通流追尾碰撞交通安全状况,提出智能网联车辆（Connected and Automated Vehicles,CAV）与常规车辆构成的混合交通流车队稳定性优化控制方法。基于全速度差模型,应用集成速度与加速度的多前车反馈构建CAV跟驰模型,考虑CAV混合交通流车辆空间分布的随机性,将各类型局部车队稳定性作为优化目标,以局部车队头车速度扰动为系统输入,以尾车速度扰动为系统输出,应用经典控制理论领域的传递函数法推导局部车队稳定性约束条件;分析关于平衡态速度与CAV反馈系数的车队稳定域,以各类型局部车队能够在任意平衡态速度下均稳定为控制目标,对CAV反馈系数输出进行优化控制;设计高速公路上匝道交通瓶颈数值仿真试验,在不同CAV比例等多种条件下,分析CAV混合交通流优化控制对交通流车辆追尾碰撞风险的影响。研究结果表明：CAV混合交通流优化控制可降低车辆追尾碰撞风险,在碰撞时间阈值小于2 s时,100%比例的CAV交通流可将交通流的车辆追尾碰撞风险降低85.81%以上;在碰撞时间阈值大于2 s时,追尾碰撞风险可降低48.22%～78.80%。所提优化控制方法可有效降低CAV车队优化控制的复杂性,为大规模CAV背景下的混合交通流优化控制以及车辆追尾碰撞交通安全提升策略提供直接理论参考。     

车载信息娱乐系统的未来发展趋势

<正>如今车载信息娱乐系统已经发展到第四代产品,虽然有很大的进步,但也存在不少的问题,比如价格高、使用率不高、无法兼顾安全和娱乐等,针对这些问题,将来车载信息娱乐系统的发展又会走向何方?随着近年娱乐类消费电子技术的不断创新和发展,特别是智能设备及移动互联网技术的普及,汽车也搭上了智能化的趋势,对于IVI的定义也相应的发生了更为复杂的变化。     

考虑高速公路运行风险的雨天可变限速方法

为保证雨天环境下高速公路行驶安全，降低道路整体运行风险，结合雨天风险特征，开展考虑运行风险的雨天可变限速研究。首先应用随机森林模型，标定雨天环境下高速公路动静态风险因素的特征重要度，并结合熵值理论，建立高速公路风险模型、计算风险系数、划分风险等级;之后，以空域自适应算法中可变限速推演变化规律为基础，考虑大、小型车的行驶特征，结合预期风险、雨天停车视距、水膜厚度等因素，优化可变限速模型，细化大、小型车辆的初始控制值，进而提出不同降雨强度、不同能见度下的可变限速推荐值；在此基础上，利用驾驶模拟实景仿真系统、心理生理检测设备、微观交通流仿真软件，开展可变限速系统控制值合理性及驾驶人行车适应性与交通流运行状态的实证分析。研究结果表明：随着能见度降低和降雨量增大，在可变限速控制下，驾驶人呈现出交感神经兴奋性减弱、副交感神经兴奋性增强、心理紧张度降低的状态，其平均心率、心率变异性高频值、心率变异性低频值、心率变异性差异值分别由74.13、0.121、0.643、2.37变为78.23、0.192、0.567、2.01，驾驶人对限速方案的适应性良好；同时，可变限速可保证道路整体通行效率，不会造成交通流风险震动，在小型车、大型车限速分别为80、60 km·h^-1和小型车限速60 km·h^-1、大型车禁止驶入场景下，碰撞时间均值、中值大于未限速场景，各车道的行车安全性均能得到保障;提出的雨天可变限速控制方法合理，且具有一定工程适应性，能为异常天气高速公路宏观车流主动防控提供理论支撑。     

车-车协同下无人驾驶车辆的换道汇入控制方法

多车协同驾驶是智能车路系统领域的研究热点之一,可有效降低道路交通控制管理的复杂程度,减少环境污染的同时保障道路交通安全。基于多车协同驾驶控制结构,提出了一种无人驾驶车辆换道汇入的驾驶模型及策略,系统分析了多车协同运行状态的稳定条件。在综合分析无人驾驶车辆换道汇入的协作准则、安全性评估后,基于高阶多项式方法,结合车辆运行特性,通过引入乘坐舒适性的指标函数,设计得到无人驾驶车辆换道汇入的有效运动轨迹。通过研究汇入车辆与车队中汇入点前、后各车辆的运动关系,详细分析车辆发生碰撞的类型和影响因素,给出避免碰撞的条件准则,从而确保无人驾驶车辆汇入过程中多车行驶的安全性和稳定性。基于车辆运动学建立车辆位置误差模型,结合系统大范围渐进稳定的条件,选取线速度和角速度作为输入,应用李雅普诺夫稳定性理论和Backstepping非线性控制算法,设计了无人驾驶车辆换道汇入后的路径跟踪控制器。仿真试验和实车试验结果表明：所设计的换道汇入路径是可行、安全的,控制器具有良好的跟踪效果,纵向和横向的距离误差在15 cm以内,方向偏差的相对误差在10%以内。研究结果为智能车路系统中的多车状态变迁与协同驾驶研究提供了参考,可服务于未来道路交通安全设计和评价。     

智能汽车横纵向运动控制方法综述

在我国随着人民生活水平的提高,车辆保有量也在呈倍速增长,进而引起了大量的交通安全问题,其中由驾驶员操作不当引起的交通事故约占所有交通事故的75%。而汽车的智能化发展可以很好地解决此类交通安全问题。智能汽车的核心技术主要包括环境感知、行为决策及运动控制三方面。其中运动控制作为智能汽车核心技术之一,有着重要的研究意义。智能汽车的运动控制包括横向控制和纵向控制两部分,对汽车横、纵向运动控制中的多种方法进行了分析介绍,包括模型预测控制、模糊逻辑控制、神经网络的自适应滑膜控制、直接式控制和分层式控制;同时介绍了横纵向耦合实现运动控制的重要性,并分析了其研究现状;最后,对智能汽车运动控制的后续发展方向进行了展望,有助于智能汽车运动控制的进一步优化发展。     

A study of the environmental impacts of intelligent automated vehicle control at intersections via V2V and V2I communications

This article presents a novel intersection traffic management system for automated vehicles and quantifies its impact on fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions of CO₂ relative to traditional traffic signal and roundabout intersection control. The developed intelligent traffic management (ITM) techniques, which are based on a spatiotemporal reservation scheme, ensure that vehicles proceed through the intersection without colliding with other vehicles while at the same time reducing the intersection delay and environmental impacts. Specifically, the spatiotemporal reservation scheme provides each vehicle a collision-free path that is decomposed into a speed profile along with navigational instructions. The integration of the developed microscopic traffic simulator with instantaneous emission model, provides improved assessments of the environmental impact of traffic control strategies at intersections. The simulator architecture integrates several ITM algorithms, vehicle sensors, V2V/V2I communications, and emission and fuel consumption models. Each vehicle is modeled by an agent and each agent provides information depending on the specific vehicle sensors. The ITM system is supported by V2V and V2I communications, allowing the exchange of information among vehicles and infrastructure. The data include the estimated vehicle position and speed. Compared with traditional traffic management techniques, the simulation results prove that the proposed ITM system reduces CO₂ emissions significantly. The research also shows that these reductions are more significant when the traffic flow increases.     

智能汽车对无信号交叉口行人的避撞控制

针对智能汽车在无信号交叉口对横穿行人的避撞问题,研究了主动转向避撞控制策略。基于多层模型预测控制方法,采用分层控制策略设计局部规划层控制器与全局跟踪层控制器,在此基础上根据交叉口处汽车与行人的轨迹特征计算人车碰撞剩余时间,改进传统人工势场法构造避撞函数,规划出既能规避交叉口内存在碰撞风险的行人又能使偏差最小的局部避撞路径,并使智能汽车在满足多项动力学约束时准确跟踪参考路径,通过搭建CarSim/Simulink联合仿真平台,结合广东省2006—2018年交通事故数据库选取对交叉口人车碰撞有显著影响的因素,设计仿真场景进行仿真分析。结果表明:智能汽车能在多个初始点完成对参考路径的跟踪,控制器对不同速度和附着条件有较高的鲁棒性,高速低附着场景中,智能汽车横向加速度小于0.4 g、质心侧偏角小于2°、前轮侧偏角小于2.5°,各约束量满足舒适性和平稳性条件;4个典型交叉口场景中,智能汽车以不同速度直行或转弯通过交叉口,均能识别横穿行人中存在碰撞风险的行人实现主动转向避撞。      

智能网联车辆交通信息处理技术与信号控制方法研究

随着科学技术的不断加强,智能网联车辆的数量也在不断增加,在智能交通系统发展中,车联网发挥了重要作用,人们对于车联网的研究也越来越多和越来越深入,为了能够使车联网更好的普及,应该加强对智能网联车辆交通信息技术和信号控制的研究.本文基于目前车联网发展现状对智能网联车辆信息处理技术和信号控制的方法进行探讨研究,以供参考.     

Full drive-by-wire dynamic control for four-wheel-steer all-wheel-drive vehicles

Most of the controllers introduced for four-wheel-steer (4WS) vehicles are derived with the assumption that the longitudinal speed of the vehicle is constant. However, in real applications, the longitudinal speed varies, and the longitudinal, lateral, and yaw dynamics are coupled. In this paper, the longitudinal dynamics of the vehicle as well as its lateral and yaw motions are controlled simultaneously. This way, the effect of driving/braking forces of the tires on the lateral and yaw motions of the vehicle are automatically included in the control laws. To address the dynamic parameter uncertainty of the vehicle, a chatter-free variable structure controller is introduced. Elimination of chatter is achieved by introducing a dynamically adaptive boundary layer thickness. It is shown via simulations that the proposed control approach performs more robustly than the controllers developed based on dynamic models, in which longitudinal speed is assumed to be constant, and only lateral speed and yaw rate are used as system states. Furthermore, this approach supports all-wheel-drive vehicles. Front-wheel-drive or rear-wheel-drive vehicles are also supported as special cases of an all-wheel-drive vehicle.     

Handling stability improvement through robust active front steering and active differential control

The design of the integrated active front steering and active differential control for handling improvement of road vehicles is undertaken. The controller design algorithm is based on the solution of a set of linear matrix inequalities that guarantee robustness against a number of vehicle parameters such as speed, cornering and braking stiffnesses. Vehicle plane dynamics are first expressed in the generic linear parameter-varying form, where the above-stated parameters are treated as interval uncertainties. Then, static-state feedback controllers ensuring robust performance against changing road conditions are designed. In a first series of simulations, the performance of the integrated controller is evaluated for a fishhook manoeuvre for different values of road adhesion coefficient. Then, the controller is tested for an emergency braking manoeuvre executed on a split-μ road. In all cases, it is shown that static-state feedback controllers designed by the proposed method can achieve remarkable road handling performance compared with uncontrolled vehicles.     

Intelligent Electronic Systems in Commercial Vehicles for Enhanced Traffic Safety

Looking at the future trends of the road traffic, one will recognize that the commercial vehicle participation will not decrease, although it is required from the environmental and social viewpoints. The reason is that the other means of freight transport (water, railway, air) do not provide the same flexibility as the road transport, and direct business interest of those companies, who are using this transport form is larger than the eventual loss caused by the penalties to be paid (taxes, compensation of higher axle load). This conflict is hard to solve, but the effect can be minimized. The commercial vehicle industry attempts to introduce systems to the vehicles, which are targeting on reduction of the environmental impacts caused by heavy vehicles. These systems, which are named generally as “intelligent chassis systems”, electronically control the operation of the chassis subsystems (engine, transmission, brake, suspension) and co-ordinate their operation on a higher level (vehicle controller, intelligent control systems, such as adaptive cruise control, video camera based lane change recognition system, etc.). This paper reviews the state-of-the-art of the commercial vehicle chassis systems, and tries to project their future development.     

考虑道路因素的智能车辆纵向运动决策与控制研究

针对智能车辆纵向运动时的交通道路适应性问题,考虑路面附着系数和前车运动速度等因素,研究了智能车辆纵向运动决策与控制方法。论文研究了基于车头时距的纵向运动决策方法并建立不同驾驶行为的目标车速模型,运用变论域模糊推理算法设计了目标加速度模型。基于纵向动力学模型,运用自适应反演滑模控制算法建立了驱动控制器和制动控制器。对高附着系数路面和低附着系数路面的行驶工况进行仿真试验验证,结果表明,在不同的附着系数路面和前车变速行驶条件下,智能车辆能实时、合理地决策目标车速、目标加速度,实现安全、高效、稳定的跟驰。     

面向智能车辆的现役道路设施行驶适应性研究综述

为了总结面向智能车辆的现役道路设施行驶适应性，即现役道路基础设施承载智能车辆行驶的适宜程度，阐述自主智能驾驶定义与驾驶自动化等级分类，在此基础上剖析不同等级间的人机功能差异，并分别从感知层、感知-决策层、决策-控制层探讨与道路设计要素相关联的人机功能差异，通过归纳总结智能车辆与道路几何要素、路面性能及其他道路要素(如道路标线)的相互作用机制研究，从道路工程角度及其他道路要素方面回顾该领域的研究现状，指出存在的问题和未来发展方向。研究结果表明：相比传统车辆，配置高等级自动驾驶系统的智能车辆对现役道路设施行驶适应性最高，主动安全系统次之，而驾驶辅助及有条件自动驾驶系统适应性不足。而目前研究主要问题包括：难以归纳、标定不同驾驶自动化等级间的人机功能差异及其对于道路设计参数的需求设计值；测试道路场景条件过于理想，考虑的驾驶自动化等级单一，试验规模和样本有限；道路几何、路面性能以及道路标志、标线等道路要素与智能车辆间的相互作用机制研究不足，缺乏与不同道路场景相匹配的智能车辆驾驶特征数据的获取手段。因此建议：重视并推动与道路设计要素相关联的关键人机功能差异指标信息共享；联合高保真且可交互的道路场景、高精度感知传感器物理模型、车辆动力学模型及微观交通流模型，利用测试场景自动化生成、极限工况场景搜寻与泛化等技术开展智能驾驶虚拟测试，突破现有研究的深度和广度；探索反映不同等级智能车辆的道路行驶适应性特征指标与评价标准，精准、有效地评估预测复杂道路场景及不利道路条件下的行驶适应性。     

Collaborative merging strategy for freeway ramp operations in a connected and autonomous vehicles environment

In a connected vehicle environment, vehicles are able to communicate and exchange detailed information such as speed, acceleration, and position in real time. Such information exchange is important for improving traffic safety and mobility. This allows vehicles to collaborate with each other, which can significantly improve traffic operations particularly at intersections and freeway ramps. To assess the potential safety and mobility benefits of collaborative driving enabled by connected vehicle technologies, this study developed an optimization-based ramp control strategy and a simulation evaluation platform using VISSIM, MATLAB, and the Car2X module in VISSIM. The ramp control strategy is formulated as a constrained nonlinear optimization problem and solved by the MATLAB optimization toolbox. The optimization model provides individual vehicles with step-by-step control instructions in the ramp merging area. In addition to the optimization-based ramp control strategy, an empirical gradual speed limit control strategy is also formulated. These strategies are evaluated using the developed simulation platform in terms of average speed, average delay time, and throughput and are compared with a benchmark case with no control. The study results indicate that the proposed optimal control strategy can effectively coordinate merging vehicles at freeway on-ramps and substantially improve safety and mobility, especially when the freeway traffic is not oversaturated. The ramp control strategy can be further extended to improve traffic operations at bottlenecks caused by incidents, which cause approximately 25% of traffic congestion in the United States.     

Assessing the Potential Impacts of Connected Vehicles: Mobility,Environmental, and Safety Perspectives

The connected vehicle is a rapidly emerging paradigm aimed at deploying and developing a fully connected transportation system that enables data exchange among vehicles, infrastructure, and mobile devices to improve mobility, enhance safety, and reduce the adverse environmental impacts of the transportation systems. This study focuses on micromodeling and quantitatively assessing the potential impacts of the connected vehicle (CV) on mobility, safety, and the environment. To assess the benefits of CVs, a modeling framework is developed based on traffic microsimulation for a real network located in the city of Toronto, Canada, to mimic communication between enabled vehicles. In this study, we examine the effects of providing real-time routing guidance and advisory warning messages to CVs. In addition, to take into account the rerouting in nonconnected vehicles (non-CVs) in response to varying sources of information such as apps, global positioning systems (GPS), variable message signs (VMS), or simply seeing the traffic back up, the impact of fraction of non-CV vehicles was also considered and evaluated. Therefore, vehicles in this model are divided into; uninformed/unfamiliar not connected (non-CV), informed/familiar but not connected (non-CV) that get updates infrequently every 5 minutes or so (non-CV), and connected vehicles that receive information more frequently (CV). The results demonstrate the potential of connected vehicles to improve mobility, enhance safety, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) at the network-wide level. The results also show quantitatively how the market penetration of connected vehicles proportionally affects the performance of the traffic network. While the presented results are pertinent to the specifics of the road network modeled and cannot be generalized, the quantitative figures provide researchers and practitioners with ideas of what to expect from vehicle connectivity concerning mobility, safety, and environmental improvements.