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Impact of Disrupted Communication on Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control
MA: Master's Thesis (or Diploma Thesis / Diplomarbeit)
A platoon is a group of vehicles driving close to each other in order to reduce air drag, save fuel (or electric energy) and increase road capacity. In order to avoid accidents due to the reduced gap between the vehicles, the distance is controlled automatically, supported by wireless messages between the vehicles. There exist many different platooning control algorithms which differ in their control quality and robustness. Some of them are implemented in the platoon simulation software Plexe (see https://plexe.car2x.org/).
Goals of the thesis
In this theses, the robustness of some platoon controllers in the presence of packet losses is analyzed. Simulations studies will be done to get insights into the different robustness, and hypotheses about the reasons for the differences will be formulated and checked.
Keywords
Simulation, Plexe, Platooning, Control Performance, Optimization, Parametrization, Packet Losses, Communication, Python, C++