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This paper analyzed a novel information flow topology (IFT) for vehicle convoy. The topology used two-vehicle look-ahead with an immediate rear-vehicle inclusive. Mass spring damper and Newton’s second law were utilized to provide the behavior and basics for the vehicles motion respectively. The concept of homogeneous vehicle convoy and constant headway time (CHT) policy was in cooperated for the inter-vehicular spacing. The new IFT was compared with the conventional topology of the two-vehicle look-ahead to ascertain its improvement. The novel topology provides good inter-vehicular space of 0.42 m ahead of the conventional topology. Moreover, the proposed topology obeys the rate of change of speed throughout the vehicles journey than the conventional type. Low jerk of \( 0.44\,{\text{ms}}^{ - 3} \) was achieved against \( 0.47\,{\text{ms}}^{ - 3} \) of the conventional. Finally, the new topology is visible throughout the journey than the earlier, which discontinues after 117 s in all parameters.
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The work is financially supported by Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) and Malaysia Government through the UTM Research University Grants (Vote number 12J52). We also appreciate the partial support from UTM IDF scholarship.
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Musa, M.J., Sudin, S., Mohamed, Z., Nawawi, S.W. (2017). Novel Information Flow Topology for Vehicle Convoy Control. In: Mohamed Ali, M., Wahid, H., Mohd Subha, N., Sahlan, S., Md. Yunus, M., Wahap, A. (eds) Modeling, Design and Simulation of Systems. AsiaSim 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 751. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6463-0_28
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