Development of an Adaptive Model Predictive Control for Platooning Safety in Battery Electric Vehicles

Antonio Capuano, Matteo Spano, Alessia Musa, Gianluca Toscano and Daniela Anna Misul
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Antonio Capuano: Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (DIMEAS), Politecnico di Torino, 10125 Torino, Italy
Matteo Spano: Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (DIMEAS), Politecnico di Torino, 10125 Torino, Italy
Alessia Musa: Center of Automotive Research and Sustainable Mobility (CARS), Politecnico di Torino, 10125 Torino, Italy
Gianluca Toscano: Teoresi S.p.A., 10125 Torino, Italy
Daniela Anna Misul: Center of Automotive Research and Sustainable Mobility (CARS), Politecnico di Torino, 10125 Torino, Italy

Energies, 2021, vol. 14, issue 17, 1-14

Abstract: The recent and continuous improvement in the transportation field provides several different opportunities for enhancing safety and comfort in passenger vehicles. In this context, Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) might provide additional benefits, including smoothness of the traffic flow and collision avoidance. In addition, Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) communication may be exploited in the car-following model to obtain further improvements in safety and comfort by guaranteeing fast response to critical events. In this paper, firstly an Adaptive Model Predictive Control was developed for managing the Cooperative ACC scenario of two vehicles; as a second step, the safety analysis during a cut-in maneuver was performed, extending the platooning vehicles’ number to four. The effectiveness of the proposed methodology was assessed for in different driving scenarios such as diverse cruising speeds, steep accelerations, and aggressive decelerations. Moreover, the controller was validated by considering various speed profiles of the leader vehicle, including a real drive cycle obtained using a random drive cycle generator software. Results demonstrated that the proposed control strategy was capable of ensuring safety in virtually all test cases and quickly responding to unexpected cut-in maneuvers. Indeed, different scenarios have been tested, including acceleration and deceleration phases at high speeds where the control strategy successfully avoided any collision and stabilized the vehicle platoon approximately 20–30 s after the sudden cut-in. Concerning the comfort, it was demonstrated that improvements were possible in the aggressive drive cycle whereas different scenarios were found in the random cycle, depending on where the cut-in maneuver occurred.

Keywords: safety enhancement; Adaptive Model Predictive Control (AMPC); Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV); platoon (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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