Open AccessVehicle platoon and obstacle avoidance: a reactive agent approach
Author(s) -
Dafflon Baudouin,
Gechter Franck,
Gruer Pablo,
Koukam Abderrafiaa
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
iet intelligent transport systems
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.579
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1751-9578
pISSN - 1751-956X
DOI - 10.1049/iet-its.2011.0125
Subject(s) - platoon , obstacle , obstacle avoidance , simplicity , process (computing) , computer science , control engineering , class (philosophy) , engineering , control (management) , risk analysis (engineering) , robot , mobile robot , artificial intelligence , epistemology , political science , philosophy , law , operating system , medicine
Reactive multi‐agent systems are increasingly applied to problem solving, modelling and simulation. Among the benefits of this approach, there is the capability to solve complex problems, whereas maintaining functional and conceptual simplicity of involved entities. Many examples have shown that approaches based on multi‐agent systems are effective in solving complex problems such as life simulation and multi‐robot cooperation for instance. Side‐by‐side vehicle platoon systems, which are studied in this article, can be adopted as a representative example of this class of applications. Based on preceding works, this study presents a local platoon control approach with obstacle avoidance. The proposed vehicle decision‐making process is considered as a multi‐agent system, the agents of which make collectively the best decision considering the perceived constraints and the preceding vehicle position and speed.