智能车辆队列横纵向有限时间滑模控制

针对智能车辆队列横纵向控制及误差快速收敛问题,本文提出一种分布式横纵向有限时间滑模控制策略.首先,考虑跟踪误差的连锁反应及横纵向耦合效应,利用投影变换建立车辆队列横纵向误差模型,提出一种车辆队列横纵向控制框架.而后,针对误差快速收敛问题,设计非奇异积分终端滑模面(NITSM)与自适应幂次积分趋近律(APIRL),通过构造Lyapunov函数分析系统的有限时间稳定性与队列稳定性.最后,基于Trucksim/Simulink联合仿真以及实车实验进一步验证了本文方法的有效性.结果表明,本文所提方法能保证队列稳定性,并实现误差快速收敛,规避跟踪误差的连锁反应及车辆横向运动对纵向车间距误差的影响.     

有界扰动下异质车辆队列分布式鲁棒经济预测控制

针对有界扰动下异质车辆队列节能与稳定分布式协同控制问题,提出一种新的分布式鲁棒经济模型预测控制(economic model predictive control, EMPC)策略.首先采用不确定误差模型描述有界扰动下异质车辆队列纵向行驶动态特性,再应用tube思想对系统约束进行紧缩设计,补偿有界扰动对系统造成的不确定性.其次,采用局部车辆行驶能耗模型描述车辆队列分布式经济性能优化的有限时域最优控制问题,并利用传统跟踪性能指标设计附加稳定收缩约束函数.进一步,基于系统收缩原理,建立车辆队列闭环系统关于有界扰动的输入-状态稳定性条件.最后,通过与车辆队列传统分布式鲁棒模型预测控制策略的数值仿真对比结果验证了所提出策略的有效性和优越性.     

考虑行车能见度状况的车辆队列协作控制

本文考虑了能见度状况影响下的车辆队列协作控制问题.针对车辆行驶中可能出现的3种(正常、低以及超低)能见度状况,分析了其对距离传感器测量输出的影响,并建立了具有切换结构的车辆控制模型.基于平均驻留时间技术以及分段Lyapunov函数方法,在不同能见度状况下,得到了能够保证车辆列队跟踪误差稳定的车辆控制器存在条件以及控制器增益求解方法.通过对车辆控制器增加限制条件,得到了能够保证队列稳定性要求以及实现零稳态距离跟踪误差的车辆协作控制算法.通过MATLAB仿真实验以及Ardunio智能小车实验,验证了本文所提出的算法的有效性以及实用性.     

级联触发策略下非结构化道路的自主卡车队列控制

本文针对非结构化道路上自主卡车队列系统的控制问题进行研究, 设计一种基于级联触发的控制器,有效提高复杂工况下的卡车队列系统性能. 首先, 建立不依赖于道路结构的纵–横耦合卡车队列系统模型, 该模型涉及复杂环境下车辆存在故障(包括执行器、传感器的失效故障以及随机网络故障)影响. 其次, 为降低燃油消耗, 设计了基于自触发和事件触发的级联触发控制器, 并利用李雅普诺夫方法证明了系统的闭环稳定性. 此外, 通过对系统Zeno行为的分析量化, 得到了触发时间间隔的下界值, 保证了算法的实际应用性. 本文为了实现卡车系统队列稳定性控制目标, 进一步给出了控制器设计限制条件. 最后, 仿真结果表明, 所提出的控制方法不但能保证单车渐近稳定以及队列稳定, 还能有效减少执行器更新频率, 提高燃油经济性.     

基于模型预测控制的电动车辆队列控制研究

针对车辆队列建模时参数不确定导致控制存在误差的问题,以及队列中跟随车辆稳定性问题,分析车辆纵向动力学,设计一个鲁棒MPC控制器和滑移率控制器来提高队列车辆的控制精度和稳定性.首先对纵向MPC控制器进行改进,提高车辆队列控制精度；同时为防止跟随车辆的轮胎打滑,设计一个MPC滑移率控制器对跟随车辆的轮胎滑移率进行控制约束,保证了跟随车辆的纵向稳定性.最后,进行仿真实验验证其有效性.仿真实验结果表明,与传统的LQR、MPC控制器相比,改进的鲁棒MPC纵向控制器控制精度更高,同时MPC滑移率控制器可防止跟随车辆的轮胎打滑,保证了跟随车辆的纵向稳定性.     

空气流动阻力下非线性车辆队列最优能耗控制方法

为了优化车辆队列在长距离行驶过程中的能源消耗,对空气流动阻力下车辆队列能耗优化间距策略以及相应的队列控制方法进行了研究;首先根据车辆队列在行驶过程中受到的空气流动阻力,建立基于异构风阻系数的车辆动力学模型;其次,设计基于滑模控制的非线性车辆队列控制方法,使其能够在不同风阻系数下稳定地收敛到期望的车辆队列;在此基础上,构建稳态下车辆队列能量消耗评价模型,并通过优化分析,计算能量消耗最优下的车辆队列期望车间距;最后通过数值仿真的手段验证所提控制方法的有效性与可行性;该结果表明:所设计的控制器能够使整个车辆队列达到期望的控制效果;得到的最优车间距能够使得特定条件下车辆队列稳态能量消耗降低。     

通信拓扑切换下车辆队列分布式模型预测控制

考虑通信拓扑切换下异质非线性车辆队列系统协同控制问题,提出一种能够保证车辆队列稳定和弦稳定的分布式模型预测控制策略.先结合车辆队列动态通信拓扑切换过程,构建与时间相关的图函数,再利用邻居车辆状态信息描述平均协同代价函数,并将其引入局部滚动时域优化控制问题.进一步,应用平均停留时间概念和切换系统Lyapunov稳定性理论,建立通信拓扑切换下车辆队列闭环系统的内部稳定性和弦稳定性充分条件.最后通过两组典型交通场景的对比仿真验证本文策略的有效性.     

马尔科夫链通信拓扑下的车辆队列最优能耗控制

针对马尔科夫链通信拓扑下的车辆队列控制问题,综合考虑车辆队列的非线性动力学模型和行驶能耗优化目标,提出一种基于分布式状态观测器的车辆队列能耗优化控制方法.由于在马尔科夫链通信拓扑下,部分车辆获取的邻居车辆信息具有动态切换特性,严重影响了车辆队列控制算法的有效性和稳定性.鉴于此,首先,设计一种用于估计领航车辆状态信息的状态观测器,有效避免通讯拓扑切换对队列控制系统造成的干扰;然后,结合车辆的非线性动力学模型与队列优化目标,构建一种基于指数折扣函数的车辆队列能耗优化框架,将车辆队列的能耗优化问题转化为Riccati方程的求解问题,进而得到车辆队列的最优能耗控制输入,在此基础上,通过构造动态通信拓扑下的李雅普诺夫函数,分析车辆队列控制系统的稳定性条件,即只要每个可能的通信拓扑均需包含一个以领航车辆为根的有向生成树,就可使得该车辆队列控制系统满足稳定性和队列稳定性;最后,通过数值仿真验证所提出控制算法的可行性和有效性.     

预设跟踪性能下车辆队列执行器故障主动容错控制

研究预设跟踪性能下的车辆队列执行器故障主动容错控制问题.考虑执行器部分失效和偏移故障情形,设计Luenberger观测器和自适应残差阈值以实现执行器故障检测.在此基础上,为了确保执行器故障下的车辆队列暂态和稳态性能,在预设跟踪性能框架下,设计基于反步法的主动容错控制算法,在满足预设性能的前提下,实现车辆队列跟踪误差有界,且车辆间距满足安全性和紧凑性约束.仿真结果验证了所提出主动容错控制算法的有效性.     

通信延时环境下异质网联车辆队列非线性纵向控制

针对通信延时环境下的异质车辆队列控制问题, 本文提出了一种基于三阶模型的分布式非线性车辆队列纵向控制器. 首先, 基于三阶动力学模型描述了车辆的异质特性. 考虑车辆跟驰行为以及异质通信延时, 提出一种通信延时环境下的异质车辆队列非线性控制器. 所提控制器不仅可以在通信延时以及车辆异质特性的影响下实现队列中车辆的位置、速度以及加速度的一致性, 而且可以有效避免负的车辆间距和不合理的加/减速度, 保证车辆的运动行为符合交通流理论. 然后, 利用Lyapunov-Krasovskii定理对车辆队列的稳定性进行分析, 得出车辆队列的稳定性条件和通信延时上界. 最后, 所提控制器的有效性和稳定性通过数值仿真得到验证.     

Robust static output feedback synthesis for platoons under leader and predecessor feedback

A multi‐objective static output feedback synthesis problem is considered for the control of vehicle platoons under leader and predecessor feedback. Sufficient linear matrix inequality conditions are derived for the solvability of the problem in a way to facilitate static feed‐forward as well. A novel velocity‐dependent spacing policy is integrated into the control scheme together with a platoon model in which the emphasis on the predecessor information can be adjusted by a normalized scalar weight. It is shown that the string stability of the spacing errors and the acceleration signals can always be guaranteed by choosing this weight sufficiently small. Moreover, provided that the time headway is chosen sufficiently large, the synthesis can be performed in a way to avoid the amplification of acceleration energies if compared with the leader. As a particularly convenient feature, the target spacing between the vehicles becomes smaller when moving backward along the platoon. The total increase in the platoon length caused by the introduction of the velocity‐dependent scheme is shown to be bounded and decreasing with decreasing predecessor weight. It is also established that the predecessor weight can be adjusted smoothly over time without endangering the formation stability. In addition to the optimization of the parameters of common fixed‐structure controllers for general vehicle models, the proposed synthesis procedure provides various tools for improving robustness against measurement noise, communication delay, and model uncertainty. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Nonlinear platoon control of Arduino cars with range-limited sensors

This paper investigates the problem of platoon control with sensor range limitation. A nonlinear vehicular platoon model is established, in which the sensing range constraint described by a piecewise nonlinear function is involved. Then a robust nonlinear control design method is proposed based on a disturbance observer and the backstepping technique. The results are obtained in the context of both individual vehicle stability and platoon string stability analysis, which can lead to substantially enhanced platoon control performance with a guaranteed level of attenuation of the disturbance caused by lead vehicle acceleration and wind gust. The effectiveness of the method has been shown by numerical simulations and experiments carried out with Arduino cars.     

Distributed adaptive control for vehicular platoon with unknown dead‐zone inputs and velocity/acceleration disturbances

This paper is focused on designing a distributed adaptive control scheme for a vehicular platoon with unknown bounded velocity/acceleration disturbances and unknown nonlinear dead‐zone inputs. Our aim is to design distributed adaptive controllers based on integral sliding mode control techniques that guarantee practical exponential convergence (i.e., exponential stability of an arbitrarily small neighborhood of zero) of the spacing errors and the string stability of the whole vehicular platoon. The contributions of this paper are that: (i) based on a modified constant time headway policy, the whole vehicular platoon is guaranteed to have string stability despite dead zone inputs; (ii) adaptive compensation terms are constructed to compensate for the time‐variant effects caused by unknown bounded velocity/acceleration disturbances, and unknown dead zone inputs; (iii) an efficient numerical method for avoiding the singularity problem of the control law is also proposed. Numerical simulation results show the validity and advantages of the proposed method are significantly higher traffic density and string stability. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

基于Lyapunov函数方法的时滞车辆纵向跟随控制

应用向量Lyapunov函数方法和比较原理，基于非线性车辆动态耦合模型，研究具有时间滞后的车辆跟随系统的指数稳定性问题，得到了车辆跟随系统的指数稳定性判据．根据滑模控制策略确定了车辆跟随系统的纵向控制规律，基于稳定性准则设计了车辆纵向跟随控制器参数．仿真结果表明，基于该方法设计的车辆纵向跟随控制器能使跟踪误差具有较快的收敛率．     

Fuel efficiency‐oriented platooning control of connected nonlinear vehicles: A distributed economic MPC approach

This paper considers the fuel efficiency‐oriented platooning control problem of connected vehicles. We present a novel distributed economic model predictive control (EMPC) approach to solve the problem of the vehicle platoon subject to nonlinear dynamics and safety constraints. In order to improve fuel economy of the whole vehicle platoon, the fuel consumption criterion is used to design the distributed EMPC strategy for the platoon. Meanwhile, the car‐tracking performance is exploited to guarantee stability and string stability of the platoon. Then the fuel efficiency control problem of the platoon is formulated as a distributed dual‐layer economic optimal control problem, which is solved in a fashion of receding horizon. It is proved that the proposed strategy guarantees asymptotic stability and predecessor‐follower string stability as well as fuel economy of the whole platoon by minimizing the fuel consumption cost. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed strategy is highlighted by comparing its performance with that of the traditional distributed MPC strategy in numerical simulations.     

含时延的车辆队列事件触发一致性控制研究

为应对通信过程中的传输时延以及车辆间连续信息交互带来的信息冗余、资源浪费,提出一种基于事件触发机制的车辆队列一致性策略,以保证车辆队列能够稳定运行;为此,构建一个考虑车辆间的跟驰行为和通信时延的三阶异质车辆队列动力学模型,提出一种基于事件触发的一致性车辆队列控制器的设计方法;在此基础上,利用Lyapunov稳定性理论和代数图论,对车辆队列的稳定性进行分析,得出了使车辆队列稳定的事件触发条件和通信时延的上界;在MATLAB平台上进行仿真实验,验证了所提车辆队列控制方法的有效性。