Seifaei Z, Reißland T, Stich K, Franchi N (2025)
Publication Language: English
Publication Type: Conference contribution
Publication year: 2025
Publisher: Elsevier
Series: 17th IFAC Symposium on Large Scale Complex Systems: Theory and Applications
Book Volume: TBD
Pages Range: 6
Conference Proceedings Title: IFAC
Event location: University College Dublin, Ireland
This work examines event-based control for enhanced vehicle platooning in the presence of imperfect communications. We use a purpose-made simulation environment in order to contrast three configurations: (i) a baseline with a standard PD controller with ideal communications, (ii) a PD controller with lossy and noisy communications and (iii) a predictive controller with QoS-aware event-triggered updates. This work introduces a novel approach that combines trust-based modulation, stochastic delay modeling, and QoS-aware triggering within a predictive platoon controller. To our knowledge, this integration has not been explored in this way before and represents a new contribution to cooperative vehicular control under unreliable communication conditions. Unlike conventional models, our approach dynamically accounts for varying communication quality by calculating delays as a function of successful transmission probability, rather than assuming constant delays. A trust factor is used to assign a weight to the credibility of incoming or estimated values, such that the controller can act accordingly. Platoon performance is judged based on the Disturbance Propagation Factor (DPF), which measures how the spacing error develops between vehicles. The 200 Monte Carlo simulations yield results which indicate that the predictive, QoS-aware controller severely constrains disturbance propagation at no additional control effort—establishing the promise of communications-aware logic for practical platooning applications.
APA:
Seifaei, Z., Reißland, T., Stich, K., & Franchi, N. (2025). Distributed Platoon Control Under Communications Constraints and Event-Triggered Strategies. In IFAC (pp. 6). University College Dublin, Ireland: Elsevier.
MLA:
Seifaei, Zahra, et al. "Distributed Platoon Control Under Communications Constraints and Event-Triggered Strategies." Proceedings of the 17th IFAC Symposium on Large Scale Complex Systems: Theory and Applications, University College Dublin, Ireland Elsevier, 2025. 6.
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