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Automated vehicles equipped with an autonomous driving capability have attracted great research efforts in recent decades. As the autonomous levels increase from LO to L5,with L5 denoting fully autonomous driving, less and less driver assistance is needed for vehicle driving. Unlike traditional vehicles, automated vehicles generate their own perception data and control commands, rather than being controlled totally by their drivers. Moreover, facilitated by the advancement of communication technologies in vehicles, connected vehicles based on vehicular networks have been developed in recent years. This trend enables information sharing between vehicles and thus cooperative driving of automated vehicles. For instance, the research field has already witnessed the advantages of vehicle platooning, which is a type of connected vehicle that could reduce fuel consumption and traffic congestion. In this survey, we refer to automated vehicles equipped with vehicular network technologies, such as vehicular ad hoc networks(VANET), as connected and automatedvehicles (CAV) [1].
Preface
This book gives a comprehensive introduction to connected and automatedvehicular platoon system design. In particular, robustness and cybersecurity issues are considered as they relate to controller design. This part alsoconsiders several practical problems, such as constraint handling, optimalcontrol performance, robustness against disturbance and resilience againstcyberattacks. Optimization-based model predictive control schemes are applied to control the vehicle platoons. The topics cover a general frameworkfor practical platoon system design that can be extensively realized. At thesame time, this book provides theoretically rigorous analysis for the stabilityof platoons under various control schemes.Starting from robust tube-basedplatoon controller design and progressing to the stochastic tube-based platoon controller, attack detection and resilient platoon controller design, thisbook addresses robustness and cybersecurity issues step-by-step. Each chapter also includes illustrative examples to demonstrate the design procedures,rendering this book beneficial for both theoretical study and practical engineering design.
Hui Zhang, Zhiyang Ju, Jicheng Chen, Qianyue Luo
Beijing, China