Affiliations: School of Mechanical and Precision Instrument Engineering, Xi’an University of Technology, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China
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Corresponding author. Jin Mao, School of Mechanical and Precision Instrument Engineering, Xi’an University of Technology, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China. E-mail: maojin@xaut.edu.cn.
Abstract: In the following process, in order to improve the driving safety and road utilization of the adaptive cruise control (ACC) system, a variable time headway spacing strategy was studied. In view of the fact that the variable spacing strategy cannot adapt to the complex and variable deceleration conditions, an improved variable time headway strategy is proposed, which changes with the deceleration time and deceleration of the preceding vehicle. Based on this, the upper controller of adaptive cruise control based on model predictive control is designed, and numerical simulation of the variable time headway spacing strategy is performed, which verifies the effectiveness of the improved variable time headway strategy. The results show that the spacing strategy proposed in this paper can more smoothly keep up with the preceding vehicle, and improve driving safety, comfort and road utilization.
Keywords: Adaptive cruise control, variable time headway, spacing strategy, model
predictive control
