Authors:
Youngjae Kim
;
Nazakat Ali
and
Jang-Eui Hong
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Republic of Korea
Keyword(s):
Platoon Driving, Safety, Variability, VENTOS Simulation, Cyber-Physical System.
Abstract:
In platoon driving, a group of autonomous vehicles drives by forming one platoon to achieve advantages such as fuel efficiency and traffic congestion reduction. Ensuring the safety of such a platooning system is very challenging due to unexpected driving conditions e.g., adverse weather and obstacles on the road. Therefore, the safety of a platooning system should be guaranteed even in variable weather conditions. In this paper, we investigate the platooning system's unexpected behavior due to adverse weather conditions and provide safety guards to avoid potential hazards. Simulation techniques are essential to confirm that the designed safety guards work correctly, because testing such systems in a real situation can be highly expensive. Therefore, we extended VENTOS, an open-source platoon driving simulator to verify the provided safety guards, which can prevent risks under diverse weather scenarios e.g., fog, rain, snow, etc. Our simulation results show that the proposed safety gu
ards for adverse weather conditions can enhance the safety of the platooning systems.
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