Robust Time-Delay Feedback Control of Vehicular CACC Systems with Uncertain Dynamics

This paper proposes a new, robust time-delay cooperative adaptive cruise control (CACC) approach for vehicle platooning systems with uncertain dynamics and varying communication delay. The uncertain CACC models with perturbed parameters are used to describe the uncertain dynamics of the vehicle platooning system. By combining the constant time headway strategy and predecessor-following communication topology, a set of robust delay feedback controllers is designed for the uncertain vehicle platoon with varying communication delay. Then, the set of CACC controllers is computed by solving some linear matrix inequalities, which further establish the robust (string) stability of the uncertain platooning system with the varying communication delay. The co-simulation experiment of CarSim and Simulink with a group of a seven-car platoons and varying velocity is used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the presented method.