To further investigate car-following behaviors in the cooperative adaptive cruise control（CACC） strategy,a comprehensive control system which can handle three traffic conditions to guarantee driving efficiency and s...To further investigate car-following behaviors in the cooperative adaptive cruise control（CACC） strategy,a comprehensive control system which can handle three traffic conditions to guarantee driving efficiency and safety is designed by using three CACC models.In this control system,some vital comprehensive information,such as multiple preceding cars’ speed differences and headway,variable safety distance（VSD） and time-delay effect on the traffic current and the jamming transition have been investigated via analytical or numerical methods.Local and string stability criterion for the velocity control（VC） model and gap control（GC） model are derived via linear stability theory.Numerical simulations are conducted to study the performance of the simulated traffic flow.The simulation results show that the VC model and GC model can improve driving efficiency and suppress traffic congestion.展开更多
Both safety and stability are primary performance criteria for multi-unmanned aerial vehicle(multi-UAV)systems in many coordination tasks.Existing approaches often consider safety and stability separately.It is necess...Both safety and stability are primary performance criteria for multi-unmanned aerial vehicle(multi-UAV)systems in many coordination tasks.Existing approaches often consider safety and stability separately.It is necessary and urgent to develop a safety-stability control strategy to merge these two performance criteria.In this paper,a unified approach is developed to consider safety and stability for multi-UAV formation control.The stability criterion is represented by a Lyapunov function and safety criterion is represented by a barrier function and then a relaxed converse control Lyapunov-barrier theorem is obtained.With the help of a relaxed converse control Lyapunov-barrier function(RCCLBF),a distributed safety-stability formation control strategy is proposed for the multi-UAV system.By transforming the solution of RCCLBF to a Lyapunovlike stabilization problem,we show that the proposed formation control strategy can drive the UAVs staying within a specified safe set.Simulation results are provided to validate the proposed safety-stability formation control strategy.展开更多
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.71571107 and 11302110)The Scientific Research Fund of Zhejiang Province,China(Grant Nos.LY15A020007,LY15E080013,and LY16G010003)+2 种基金The Natural Science Foundation of Ningbo City(Grant Nos.2014A610030and 2015A610299)the Fund from the Government of the Hong Kong Administrative Region,China(Grant No.City U11209614)the K C Wong Magna Fund in Ningbo University,China
文摘To further investigate car-following behaviors in the cooperative adaptive cruise control（CACC） strategy,a comprehensive control system which can handle three traffic conditions to guarantee driving efficiency and safety is designed by using three CACC models.In this control system,some vital comprehensive information,such as multiple preceding cars’ speed differences and headway,variable safety distance（VSD） and time-delay effect on the traffic current and the jamming transition have been investigated via analytical or numerical methods.Local and string stability criterion for the velocity control（VC） model and gap control（GC） model are derived via linear stability theory.Numerical simulations are conducted to study the performance of the simulated traffic flow.The simulation results show that the VC model and GC model can improve driving efficiency and suppress traffic congestion.
基金supported in part by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(No.2022YFE0133100)in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.62203089)in part by the Sichuan Science and Technology Program(Nos.24NSFSC1362,2020YFSY0012).
文摘Both safety and stability are primary performance criteria for multi-unmanned aerial vehicle(multi-UAV)systems in many coordination tasks.Existing approaches often consider safety and stability separately.It is necessary and urgent to develop a safety-stability control strategy to merge these two performance criteria.In this paper,a unified approach is developed to consider safety and stability for multi-UAV formation control.The stability criterion is represented by a Lyapunov function and safety criterion is represented by a barrier function and then a relaxed converse control Lyapunov-barrier theorem is obtained.With the help of a relaxed converse control Lyapunov-barrier function(RCCLBF),a distributed safety-stability formation control strategy is proposed for the multi-UAV system.By transforming the solution of RCCLBF to a Lyapunovlike stabilization problem,we show that the proposed formation control strategy can drive the UAVs staying within a specified safe set.Simulation results are provided to validate the proposed safety-stability formation control strategy.
