Zhang, Linjun (University of Michigan), Orosz, Gabor (University of Michigan)

Designing Network Motifs in Connected Vehicle Systems: Delay Effects and Stability

Scheduled for presentation during the Invited session "System Identification and Modeling" (WeBT5), Wednesday, October 23, 2013, 15:10−15:30, Tent B

6th Annual Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, October 21-23, 2020, Stanford University, Munger Center, Palo Alto, CA

This information is tentative and subject to change. Compiled on April 25, 2024

Abstract

Arising technologies in vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication allow vehicles to obtain information about the motion of distant vehicles. Such information can be presented to the driver or incorporated in advanced autonomous cruise control (ACC) systems. In this paper we investigate the effects of multi-vehicle communication on the dynamics of connected vehicle platoons and propose a motif-based approach that allows systematical analysis and design of such systems. We investigate the dynamics of simple motifs in the presence of communication delays, and show that long-distance communication can stabilize the uniform flow when the flow cannot be stabilized by nearest neighbor interactions. The results can be used for designing driver assist systems and communication-based cruise control systems.