Case Study on Communication Based Cooperative Longitudinal Vehicle Guidance

Abstract An approach of a proven concept for cooperative longitudinal vehicle guidance is presented. The paper briefly describes the communication pipeline as well as the incorporated communication technology. Moreover, the used longitudinal controller, which explicitly considers the communicated states of the vehicles ahead, is addressed. Here, we are expanding a classical Adaptive Cruise Controller (ACC) to realize the cooperative longitudinal guidance functionality simply and robustly. On the one hand, the current states of the vehicle in front are transmitted and on the other hand the desired ones. Results of a real-world test campaign of platooning vehicles illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.