This report focuses on longitudinal issues regarding modeling and control of vehicles in an Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) setting. Specifically, the report addresses the issue of vehicle control in an automated highway system, brake actuation and brake control. Recent research...

This report addresses some of the important longitudinal vehicle modeling and control issues of Advanced Vehicle Control Systems (AVCS) such as brake dynamic model development and validation, decentralized longitudinal control algorithms which guarantee the stability of the entire platoon and...

The first section of this report addresses the issues of vehicle control during transition maneuvers in Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems. Transition maneuvers include automatic lane change of vehicles and merging and splitting of platoons of vehicles in the automated highway system. The...

This report studies performance issues in Automated Vehicle Control Systems (AVCS). Specifically, it addresses the automatic braking controller design issues, effects of braking on Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems (IVHS) lane capacity, performance of platoons with various information...

The aim of this report is to study issues concerning fault detection and identification in vehicle follower control. The report discusses various potential fault modes among sensors, and actuators used in the vehicle following experiments in cars. It deals with issues of fault detection of...

This report begins with an examination of autonomous lateral vehicle control. This is followed by a section on Cooperative Intelligent Cruise Control (CICC). The effect of communication delays on the control performance of vehicle platoons is then examined. The report concludes with a study of...