Benefits of V2V Communication for Autonomous and Connected Vehicles Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • 2000-2011 IEEE. In this paper, we investigate the benefits of vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication for autonomous vehicles and provide results on how V2V information helps reduce employable time headway in the presence of parasitic lags. For a string of vehicles adopting a constant time headway policy and availing the on-board information of predecessor's vehicle position and velocity, the minimum employable time headway (h min ) must be lower bounded by 2 0 for string stability, where 0 is the maximum parasitic actuation lag. In this paper, we quantify the benefits of using V2V communication in terms of a reduction in the employable time headway: 1) If the position and velocity information of r immediately preceding vehicles is used, then h min can be reduced to 4 0 /(1+r); 2) furthermore, if the acceleration of 'r' immediately preceding vehicles is used, then h min can be reduced to 2 0 /(1+r); and 3) if the position, velocity, and acceleration of the immediate and the r-th predecessors are used, then h min 2 0 /(1+r). Note that cases (2) and (3) provide the same lower bound on the minimum employable time headway; however, case (3) requires much less communicated information.

published proceedings

  • IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS

author list (cited authors)

  • Darbha, S., Konduri, S., & Pagilla, P. R.

citation count

  • 107

complete list of authors

  • Darbha, Swaroop||Konduri, Shyamprasad||Pagilla, Prabhakar R

publication date

  • May 2019