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Hierarchical, Intelligent and Automatic Controls

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Handbook of Intelligent Vehicles

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We present a survey on traffic management and control frameworks for Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems (IVHS). First, we give a short overview of the main currently used traffic control methods that can be applied in IVHS. Next, various traffic management architectures for IVHS such as PATH, Dolphin, Auto21 CDS, etc., are briefly discussed and a comparison of the various frameworks is presented. Subsequently, we focus on control of vehicles inside a platoon, and we present a detailed discussion on the notion of string stability. Next, we consider higher-level control of platoons of vehicles. Finally, we present an outlook on open problems and topics for future research.

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  1. Delft Center for Systems and Control, Delft University of Technology, Mekelweg 2, 2628 CD, Delft, The Netherlands

    Bart De Schutter & Lakshmi Dhevi Baskar

  2. Automotive, TNO Technical Sciences, P.O. Box 756, 5700 AT, Helmond, The Netherlands

    Jeroen Ploeg

  3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Dynamics and Control Section, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Gerrit Naus & Prof. Dr. Henk Nijmeijer

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De Schutter, B., Ploeg, J., Dhevi Baskar, L., Naus, G., Nijmeijer, H. (2012). Hierarchical, Intelligent and Automatic Controls. In: Eskandarian, A. (eds) Handbook of Intelligent Vehicles. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-085-4_5

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