Adaptive Cruise Control for Heavy Vehicles

• An Adaptive Cruise Controller (ACC) is an extension of an ordinary cruise controller. In addition to maintaining a desired set speed, an ACC can also maintain a desired time gap to the vehicle ahead. For this end, both the engine and the brakes are controlled. The interest in the MPC-controller as a solution to the problem was to achieve automatic actuator switching, thus with no explicitly defined switch points. The MPC-controller is based on a model of the system including bounds on the control signals and on linear combinations of the states. Using this knowledge, the MPC-controller will choose the correct actuator for the current driving situation. Among the drawbacks, it can be mentioned that the variant of MPC, used in this paper, is too complex to implement in the control system currently used in trucks.

Subject headings

TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Elektroteknik och elektronik -- Reglerteknik (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering -- Control Engineering (hsv//eng)

Keyword

MPC

Predictive control

ACC

Adaptive cruise control

Truck

Actuator switching

State machine

TECHNOLOGY

TEKNIKVETENSKAP

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vet (subject category)

kon (subject category)