Leading Cruise Control in Mixed Traffic Flow: System Modeling, Controllability, and String Stability

• Published in: IEEE transactions on intelligent transportation systems Vol. 23; no. 8; pp. 12861 - 12876
• Main Authors: Wang, Jiawei, Zheng, Yang, Chen, Chaoyi, Xu, Qing, Li, Keqiang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.08.2022; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Car following; Connected and autonomous vehicle; Control stability; Controllability; Cruise control; Driving conditions; Dynamic models; Flow stability; Longitudinal control; mixed traffic flow; Numerical stability; Observability; Observability (systems); Perturbation; Perturbation methods; Road transportation; Stability analysis; string stability; Strings; Topology; Traffic control; Traffic flow; Traffic models; Transportation systems; Upstream; Vehicle dynamics
• ISSN: 1524-9050; 1558-0016
• DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2021.3118021

Connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) have great potential to improve road transportation systems. Most existing strategies for CAVs' longitudinal control focus on downstream traffic conditions, but neglect the impact of CAVs' behaviors on upstream traffic flow. In this paper, we introd...