The Impact of Truck Platoons on the Traffic Dynamics Around Off-Ramp Regions by Can Zhao, Li Li, Jingwei Li, Keqiang Li, Zhiheng Li

“…The platooning technique has shown potential to bring pronounced benefits to road traffic, including higher safety, better fuel economy, and greater comfort. …”
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A distributed model predictive control method combined with delay compensator for multiple vehicle platoons by Mingchang Xu, Yugong Luo, Weiwei Kong, Keqiang Li

“…In this study, a hierarchical multi‐platoon control architecture considering the backbone platoon and sub‐platoons is proposed under non‐ideal communication conditions, where the backbone platoon layer communication topology is designed to achieve backbone platoon control and appropriate coordination among sub‐platoons. …”
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Coordinated formation control for intelligent and connected vehicles in multiple traffic scenarios by Qing Xu, Mengchi Cai, Keqiang Li, Biao Xu, Jianqiang Wang, Xiangbin Wu

“…In the two‐dimensional scenario, an improved virtual platoon method is proposed to transfer the complex two‐dimensional passing problem to the one‐dimensional formation control problem based on the idea of rotation projection. …”
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