On a weaker notion of ring stability for mixed traffic with human-driven and autonomous vehicles

Vittorio Giammarino, Maolong Lv, Simone Baldi, Paolo Frasca, Maria Laura Delle Monache

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Abstract

This article considers criteria to determine when stop-and-go waves form in platoons of human-driven vehicles, and when they can be dissipated by the presence of an autonomous vehicle. Our analysis takes the start from the observation that the standard notion of string/ring stability definition, which requires uniformity with respect to the number of vehicles in the platoon, is too demanding for a mixed traffic scenario. The setting under consideration is the following: the vehicles run along a ring road and the human-driven vehicles obey a combined follow-the-leader and optimal velocity model, while the autonomous vehicle obeys an appropriately designed model. The criteria are tested on a linearized version of the resulting platoon dynamics and simulation tests using nonlinear model are carried out.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 58th Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2019
PublisherIEEE
Pages335-340
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-7281-1398-2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019
Event58th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2019 - Nice, France
Duration: 11 Dec 201913 Dec 2019

Conference

Conference58th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2019
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityNice
Period11/12/1913/12/19

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