Autonomous/unmanned driving is the major state-of-the-art step that has a potential to fundamentally transform the mobility of individuals and goods. At present, most of the developments target standalone autonomous vehicles, which can sense the surroundings and control the vehicle based on this perception, with limited or no driver intervention. This paper focuses on the next step in autonomous vehicle research, which is the collaboration between autonomous vehicles, mainly vehicle formation control or vehicle platooning. To gain a deeper understanding in this area, a large number of the existing published papers have been reviewed systemically. In other words, many distributed and decentralized approaches of vehicle formation control are studied and their implementations are discussed. Finally, both technical and implementation challenges for formation control are summarized.
In the present article, the thermo-mechanical bending response of multi-layered composite plates is investigated in the framework of inverse-hyperbolic shear deformation theory using a generalized finite element model. The mathematical development is carried out under the assumptions of linear structural kinematics for the materials following generalized Hooke’s law. Energy-based finite element formulation and the principle of minimum potential energy are employed to develop the finite element governing equations. A computationally efficient C0 continuous finite element formulation is developed to examine the response of laminated composites subjected to constant, linear, and non-linear temperature change. Numerical analyses are carried out for composite laminates considering various lamination sequences (cross-ply as well as angle-ply), boundary conditions, loading conditions, span-thickness ratio, etc. The present results are compared with the existing analytical and numerical results and their agreement is observed. The effect of fiber orientation angle on bending response is analyzed to enable the optimal design of laminated composite structures under thermo-mechanical loading.
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