Safety-based Platoon Driving Simulation with Variable Environmental Conditions

Youngjae Kim, Nazakat Ali, Jang-Eui Hong

2021

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 guards for adverse weather conditions can enhance the safety of the platooning systems.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Kim Y., Ali N. and Hong J. (2021). Safety-based Platoon Driving Simulation with Variable Environmental Conditions. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT, ISBN 978-989-758-523-4, pages 558-565. DOI: 10.5220/0010584505580565

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsoft21,
author={Youngjae Kim and Nazakat Ali and Jang-Eui Hong},
title={Safety-based Platoon Driving Simulation with Variable Environmental Conditions},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT,},
year={2021},
pages={558-565},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010584505580565},
isbn={978-989-758-523-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT,
TI - Safety-based Platoon Driving Simulation with Variable Environmental Conditions
SN - 978-989-758-523-4
AU - Kim Y.
AU - Ali N.
AU - Hong J.
PY - 2021
SP - 558
EP - 565
DO - 10.5220/0010584505580565