Reference:
R. Luo,
T.J.J. van den Boom, and
B. De Schutter,
"Modeling of the dynamics and the energy consumption of a fleet of
cybercars," Proceedings of the 2014 European Control
Conference, Strasbourg, France, pp. 720-725, June 2014.
Abstract:
Automated driving technologies have already been developed for
individual vehicles. However, the lack of efficient control strategies
for the cooperation of a fleet of vehicles is one of the biggest
challenges that cybercars (i.e., fully automatic road vehicles
providing on-demand and door-to-door transportation service) are
facing. Before an efficient fleet control method can be developed, a
reasonably accurate and sufficiently fast model of the dynamics of a
fleet of cybercars that is suited for control design is needed. In
this paper, we discuss the modeling of the dynamics of a fleet of
cybercars in a dedicated road network using a discrete-time modeling
description. We consider the total time spent and total energy
consumption by all the cybercars in the network and derive how these
can be affected by the route choices.
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