Organization and Operation of Electronically Coupled Truck Platoons on German Motorways

Kunze, Ralph; Ramakers, Richard; Henning, Klaus; Jeschke, Sabina

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“…Bullis (2011) estimates that 4-m inter-truck spacings could reduce fuel consumption by 10-15%, and road-train platoons facilitate adaptive braking, potentially enabling further fuel savings. Kunze et al (2009) successfully demonstrated a trial run using 10-m headways between multiple trucks on public German motorways, and a variety of autonomously platooned Volvo trucks recently logged approximately 10,000 km along Spanish highways (Newcomb, 2012). However, tight vehicle spacing on roads could cause problems for other motorists trying to exit or enter highways, possibly resulting in the need for new or modified infrastructure with dedicated platoon lanes and thicker pavements to handle high truck volumes.…”

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“…Within the project DESIRE, the operation distance is 1.5m. In AHS, the distance between vehicles is about 10m due to the necessary safety distances between platoon vehicles [6] [7]. Therefore, the operation distance of 1.5 cannot be satisfied in AHS.…”

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“…The working distance of the infrared lights limits the distance between preceding and following vehicle to about 3m. In AHS however, the distance should be around 10m or more [8] [7].…”

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“…A 10m distance is required to be able to handle safety issues between vehicles [6]. Furthermore since it is successfully tested in the project Konvoi [7], the 10m distance is here considered as a fundamental aspect of the platoon. Several AHS projects have been tested [7] [8] [9] [6] [10].…”

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“…Furthermore since it is successfully tested in the project Konvoi [7], the 10m distance is here considered as a fundamental aspect of the platoon. Several AHS projects have been tested [7] [8] [9] [6] [10]. The most recent ones are Energy ITS [5] (Intelligent Transport Systems, Japan) and SARTRE (Safe Road Trains for the Environment, Europe) [11].…”

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Due to their low price and good quality, Stereo Vision Systems (SVS) are recently considered as a key factor to gather actual information about the object of interest. Today, automated highway systems (AHS) for urban and highway environment were developed without the use of a stereo vision system. In future, the application of AHS should be extended to unstructured environments (e.g. desert) and be adapted to heterogeneous vehicles. In this context, the stereo vision system could enable the platoon to be independent from environmental structure (e.g. lane markings) through its ability to detect, track, locate and recognize heterogeneous vehicles. So far, the need for high accuracy prevents SVS to be applied in automated heterogeneous platoon. In this paper a mechanism towards this is presented, where some behavioral properties have to be satisfied in terms of unstructured environment and heterogeneous platoons. Within a heterogeneous platoon, the back view of a preceding vehicle (BVPV) is considered as a reference point for the lateral and longitudinal control. The key idea of the proposed mechanism is to confirm that the distance of the BVPV can be extracted without depending on the movement of the preceding vehicle. Furthermore, the proposed mechanism has to ensure that features extracted from the back view are suitable to implement successfully the calibration process at around 10m distance. With the proposed SVS mechanism some of behavioral properties have to be satisfied in terms of unstructured environment and AHS. These properties are reliability, performance and robustness. Compared to other methods which use a SVS, the proposed mechanism distinguishes itself through adapting to dynamic environment and extracting the necessary features for the calibration process.

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