The purpose of this three-year project is to develop an operational model of vehicle platoon dynamics under emergency conditions and to evaluate the platoon's dynamical behavior under non-nominal, or emergency, conditions. New platoon protocols and/or controller modifications will be formulated...

The purpose of this report is to document the development of a platoon collision model which can be used to study platoon collision dynamics under emergency situations. Based on previous studies, the vehicle model within the platoon is implemented with two bumpers which are developed to meet the...

This report examines platoon behavior during non-nominal operations, most especially due to emergency braking. Three main topics are discussed: multiple-collision wave propagation effects for homogeneous platoons with and without lead vehicle information, intra-platoon collision behavior of...

The purpose of this report is to investigate the effect of selected parameter variations on the response of a platoon. The response of a platoon under different control algorithms is also examined. A four-car platoon with prescribed lead car dynamics was used for simulations and vehicles in the...

This report discusses the issues investigated during the first phase of a project which focuses on the development of a simulation program which will allow the study of platoon dynamics in both nominal and emergency scenarios. Preliminary issues include collision detection between the vehicles...