Abstract
Truck transportation offers unique use cases for the early deployment of automation technologies. In this article, we first provide an overview of applications of automated vehicles in the truck industry, from simple cruise controllers to complex driverless functionalities. We then focus on two promising use cases of automated truck driving: platoon-based cooperative freight transportation and driverless transportation in mining sites. Platooning allows trucks to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions of about 10%. The further removal of the driver in follower vehicles yields consistent economical benefits for the fleet owner. As platoon-capable trucks will always represent a small portion of the overall traffic, here, we discuss a control architecture for freight transportation that can support the efficient creation of platoons and coordinate trucks from different owners. The second use case is on driverless transportation in mining sites. A mining site is a controlled environment where the site operator has a good overview of what is happening and the amount of unforeseen events is limited. Transportation tasks tend to be repetitive, monotone, and suited for autonomous system. Here, we present a functional architecture that is able to support the driverless operation of trucks in such an environment.
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Turri, V., Mårtensson, J., Johansson, K.H. (2021). Automated Truck Driving. In: Baillieul, J., Samad, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Systems and Control. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5102-9_100117-1
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