Design of a Vehicle Platooning Controller with V2V Communication

Learn how to design a controller for vehicle platooning applications with vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication. Every following vehicle in a platoon maintains a constant spacing from its preceding vehicle. Vehicles traveling in tightly spaced platoons can improve traffic flow, safety, and fuel economy. Each vehicle obtains the position and movement information of the other vehicles in the platoon wirelessly via the V2V communication. A given acceleration profile drives the lead vehicle, and every trailing vehicle follows the lead vehicle while maintaining a predefined space by a platooning controller.