An Energy-Efficient Merge-Aware Cruise Control Method for Connected Electric Vehicles

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This article presents a merge-aware cruise control method that incorporates vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) information and aims at improving the energy efficiency of vehicles and reducing speed disruptions of merging traffic during highway merges. During the events of highway merges, the gap between the ego and the preceding vehicle reduces drastically, which can result in sudden braking of the ego vehicle and thus reduction of its energy efficiency. We propose a rather simple cruise control algorithm to eliminate such sudden variations in the gap and velocity with respect to the preceding vehicle during highway merges, thus reducing the large accelerations and braking during such events and thereby improving energy efficiency. The proposed algorithm incorporates future traffic information and has computational requirements similar to adaptive cruise control methods, hence it is real-time applicable. Data used in this article are taken from on-road experiments using a 2020 Tesla Model 3. Simulation results show the efficacy of our proposed control algorithm.
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https://doi.org/10.4271/14-13-01-0010
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11
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Vellamattathil Baby, T., and HomChaudhuri , B., "An Energy-Efficient Merge-Aware Cruise Control Method for Connected Electric Vehicles," SAE Int. J. Elec. Veh. 13(1):125-135, 2024, https://doi.org/10.4271/14-13-01-0010.
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Dec 28, 2023
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14-13-01-0010
Content Type
Journal Article
Language
English