Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control Performance Analysis ; Analyse de Performances de Régulateurs de Vitesse Adaptatifs Coopératifs

Abstract

This PhD thesis is dedicated to the performance analysis of Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC) system for intelligent vehicle platoon with the main aims of alleviating traffic congestion and improving traffic safety. At first, the Constant Time Headway (CTH) spacing policy for vehicle platoon is introduced. Based on this spacing policy, a novel decentralized Two-Vehicle-Ahead CACC (TVACACC) system is proposed, in which the desired acceleration of two front vehicles is taken into account. Then the string stability of the proposed system is theoretically analyzed. It is shown that by using the multiple wireless communication among vehicles, a better string stability is obtained compared to the conventional system. Vehicle platoon in Stop-and-Go scenario is simulated with both normal and degraded communication.Secondly, a graceful degradation technique for CACC was presented, as an alternative fallback strategy when wireless communication is lost or badly degraded. The proposed strategy, which is referred to DTVACACC, uses Kalman filter to estimate the preceding vehicle's current acceleration as a replacement of the desired acceleration. It is shown that the performance is maintained at a much higher level.Finally, a Reinforcement Learning (RL) approach of CACC system is proposed. The policy-gradient algorithm is introduced to achieve the longitudinal control. Then simulation has shown that this new RL approach results in efficient performance for CACC. ; Cette thèse est consacrée à l'analyse de performance de Régulateurs de Vitesse Adaptatifs Coopératifs(CACC) pour un train de véhicules intelligents afin de réduire la congestion du trafic et améliorer la sécurité routière.Premièrement, la politique d'espacement, à Intervalles Constants de Temps (CTH) est introduite. Basé sur cette politique d'espacement, un nouveau système décentralisé de Deux-Véhicules-Devant CACC (TVACACC) est proposé, dans lequel l'accélération souhaitée de deux véhicules précédents est prise en compte. Ensuite, la stabilité de la ...