Combined Longitudinal and Lateral Control for Heterogeneous Nodes in Mixed Vehicle Platoon Under V2I Communication

To guarantee vehicle platoon driven pattern in heterogeneous nodes of mixed vehicle platoon (composed of connected and automated vehicles and human-driven vehicles, CAVs and HVs) on curved roads, this study develops a combined longitudinal and lateral controller, which comprises of selecting the key points (KPs) from the trajectory points of detected HVs, correcting the reference trajectory and controlling CAVs with the aid of the corrected KPs. To this end, a new concept, called KPs matrix, is proposed to manage the physical components of every KP by using image processing and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication technology. Then, a trajectory correction scheme is presented to suppress the influence of nonstandard human-driven behavior by point set mapping approach in Real Variable Function theory. Furthermore, a novel controller is designed by incorporating the corrected KPs matrix and communication time delay. The stability and convergence of the proposed controller are rigorously analyzed based on the Lyapunov-Krasovskii stability theorem. In addition, extensive experiments are conducted to test the performance including three parts: the first part investigates the feasibility of the corrected KPs matrix by analyzing a video on high-way; the next part illustrates the control performance of the proposed controller on handling the cutting-corner issue (i.e. turning in advance), compared with the conventional controller. Meanwhile, the influence of time delay on the control performance is also analyzed in this study. The last implements driver-in-loop comparative experiments such that the performance of the proposed controller on eliminating the influence of nonstandard human-driven behavior is verified.