Prototype model car design for vehicle platooning

The paper presents a new prototype model car design devoted to provide a better study and research of the control techniques and navigation algorithms employed within vehicle platooning. The prototype car has a modular design and is equipped with various sensors. All the car parts were designed in a...

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Published in2017 International Conference on Optimization of Electrical and Electronic Equipment (OPTIM) & 2017 Intl Aegean Conference on Electrical Machines and Power Electronics (ACEMP) pp. 953 - 958
Main Authors Braescu, Florin C., Caruntu, Constantin F.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.05.2017
Subjects
Automobiles
Microcontrollers
Prototypes
Real-time systems
Sensors
Solid modeling
Three-dimensional displays
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Summary:The paper presents a new prototype model car design devoted to provide a better study and research of the control techniques and navigation algorithms employed within vehicle platooning. The prototype car has a modular design and is equipped with various sensors. All the car parts were designed in a 3D CAD application and 3D printed. The embedded application designed to control the car behavior is developed in compliance with the FreeRTOS real-time operating system. The embedded system was designed to be highly customizable and is composed of a main board with a dsPIC33 microcontroller and an optional secondary one, namely STM32F3DISCOVERY board. The latest can implement a more powerful platoon controller whilst freeing the main board of this task.
DOI:10.1109/OPTIM.2017.7975093