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Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control Design and Implementation
Mustafa Ridvan Cantas, Sukru Yaren Gelbal, Levent Guvenc +1
In this manuscript a design and implementation of CACC on an autonomous vehicle platform (2017 Ford Fusion) is presented. The developed CACC controls the intervehicle distance betw…
Use of Robust DOB/CDOB Compensation to Improve Autonomous Vehicle Path Following Performance in the Presence of Model Uncertainty, CAN Bus Delays and External Disturbances
Haoan Wang, Levent Guvenc
A path tracking control system is chosen as the proof-of-concept demonstration application in this paper. A disturbance observer (DOB) is embedded within the steering to path error…
Impact of Different Desired Velocity Profiles and Controller Gains on Convoy Driveability of Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control Operated Platoons
Santhosh Tamilarasan, Levent Guvenc
As the development of autonomous vehicles rapidly advances, the use of convoying/platooning becomes a more widely explored technology option for saving fuel and increasing the effi…
Discrete-time Robust PD Controlled System with DOB/CDOB Compensation for High Speed Autonomous Vehicle Path Following
Haoan Wang, Levent Guvenc
Autonomous vehicle path following performance is one of significant consideration. This paper presents discrete time design of robust PD controlled system with disturbance observer…
Cooperative Collision Avoidance in a Connected Vehicle Environment
Sukru Yaren Gelbal, Sheng Zhu, Gokul Arvind Anantharaman +2
Connected vehicle (CV) technology is among the most heavily researched areas in both the academia and industry. The vehicle to vehicle (V2V), vehicle to infrastructure (V2I) and ve…
Hardware-in-the-Loop and Road Testing of RLVW and GLOSA Connected Vehicle Applications
Ozgenur Kavas-Torris, Mustafa Ridvan Cantas, Sukru Yaren Gelbal +1
This paper presents an evaluation of two different Vehicle to Infrastructure (V2I) applications, namely Red Light Violation Warning (RLVW) and Green Light Optimized Speed Advisory…
Pre-Deployment Testing of Low Speed, Urban Road Autonomous Driving in a Simulated Environment
Xinchen Li, Aravind Chandradoss Arul Doss, Bilin Aksun Guvenc +1
Low speed autonomous shuttles emulating SAE Level L4 automated driving using human driver assisted autonomy have been operating in geo-fenced areas in several cities in the US and…
The Effects of Varying Penetration Rates of L4-L5 Autonomous Vehicles on Fuel Efficiency and Mobility of Traffic Networks
Ozgenur Kavas-Torris, M. Ridvan Cantas, Karina Meneses Cime +2
Microscopic traffic simulators that simulate realistic traffic flow are crucial in studying, understanding and evaluating the fuel usage and mobility effects of having a higher num…
Customized Co-Simulation Environment for Autonomous Driving Algorithm Development and Evaluation
Mustafa Ridvan Cantas, Levent Guvenc
Increasing the implemented SAE level of autonomy in road vehicles requires extensive simulations and verifications in a realistic simulation environment before proving ground and p…
Virtual and Real Data Populated Intersection Visualization and Testing Tool for V2X Application Development
Sukru Yaren Gelbal, Mustafa Ridvan Cantas, Bilin Aksun Guvenc +1
The capability afforded by Vehicle-to-Vehicle communication improves situational awareness and provides advantages for many of the traffic problems caused by reduced visibility or…
Mobile Safety Application for Pedestrians
Sukru Yaren Gelbal, Mustafa Ridvan Cantas, Bilin Aksun Guvenc +3
Vulnerable Road User (VRU) safety has been an important issue throughout the years as corresponding fatality numbers in traffic have been increasing each year. With the development…
Vehicle-in-Virtual-Environment (VVE)
Xincheng Cao, Haochong Chen, Sukru Yaren Gelbal +2
The current approach to connected and autonomous driving function development and evaluation uses model-in-the-loop simulation, hardware-in-the-loop simulation, and limited proving…
Automated Driving Architecture and Operation of a Light Commercial Vehicle
Murat Gozu, Mumin Tolga Emirler, Ismail Meric Can Uygan +3
This paper is on the automated driving architecture and operation of a light commercial vehicle. Simple longitudinal and lateral dynamic models of the vehicle and a more detailed C…
Information Technology Needs in Vehicle Dynamics Control
Levent Guvenc, Bilin Aksun-Guvenc
Significant changes are occurring in the field of vehicle dynamics control. Consequently, vehicle dynamics control systems are expected to be as common as ABS systems in the near f…
Decision Making for Autonomous Vehicles
Xinchen Li, Levent Guvenc, Bilin Aksun-Guvenc
This paper is on decision making of autonomous vehicles for handling roundabouts. The round intersection is introduced first followed by the Markov Decision Processes (MDP), the Pa…
The Limited Integrator Model Regulator And its Use in Vehicle Steering Control
Bilin Aksun-Guvenc, Levent Guvenc
Unexpected yaw disturbances like braking on unilaterally icy road, side wind forces and tire rupture are very difficult to handle by the driver of a road vehicle, due to his/her la…
Vehicle State Estimation and Prediction
Xinchen Li, Levent Guvenc, Bilin Aksun-Guvenc
This paper presents methods for vehicle state estimation and prediction for autonomous driving. A roundabout is chosen to apply the methods and illustrate the results as autonomous…