N. Bekiaris-Liberis, C. Roncoli and M. Papageorgiou, "Predictor-based adaptive cruise control design," in 2016 IEEE Conference on Control Applications, pp. 97-102. doi: 10.1109/CCA.2016.7587828
https://doi.org/10.1109/CCA.2016.7587828
We develop a predictor-based adaptive cruise control design for compensation of arbitrarily large actuator and sensor delays in vehicular systems utilizing measurements of the relative spacing as well as of the speed and acceleration ofeach individual vehicular system. Employing an input-output approach we prove that the predictor-based adaptive cruise control law guarantees string stability of platoons of vehicular systems (under a constant time-headway policy) for any delay value. The effectiveness of the developed control design is illustrated in simulation.