GCDC Paper Accepted for IEEE Transactions on ITS

Really excited about having our write-up of our CACC system for the Grand Cooperative Driving Challenge accepted to the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ranked number 13 of all IEEE Electrical and Electronic engineering journals by impact factor).

In the paper titled "A Modular CACC System Integration and Design" we describe the design principles behind our implementation, details of the various subsystems and results from testing and competition.

Abstract: This paper describes the Halmstad University entry in the Grand Cooperative Driving Challenge, which is a competition in vehicle platooning. Cooperative platooning has the potential to improve traffic flow by mitigating shock wave effects, which otherwise may occur in dense traffic. A longitudinal controller that uses information exchanged via wireless communication with other cooperative vehicles to achieve string-stable platooning is developed. The controller is integrated into a production vehicle, together with a positioning system, communication system, and human–machine interface (HMI). A highly modular system architecture enabled rapid development and testing of the various subsystems. In the competition, which took place in May 2011 on a closed-off highway in The Netherlands, the Halmstad University team finished second among nine competing teams.

 You can find an "early access" version over at IEEE Xplore.