Techniques exploiting the communication between vehicles, infrastructure or anything capable of, are being developed in the recent years due to their effectiveness in improving energy efficiency, comfort and safety. The scenario analyzed in this paper is of four vehicles platooning, in which the leader (i.e. the first in the platoon) is set to travel through different drive cycles and is followed by three other vehicles. An optimization-based algorithm based on Dynamic Programming (DP) is implemented to find the benchmark optimal control solution for the speed trajectory of the three following Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs). Optimal control targets for planning the three automated vehicle velocity profiles involve both reducing aggressive changes in velocity, thus enhancing passenger comfort, and decreasing energy consumption. Results show a potential range of 1.8 - 7.6 % energy reduction when comparing the energy consumptions of the lead and first follower vehicle, whereas the implemented optimization-based velocity planner predicts enhanced energy economy for the second and third follower BEVs. In general, the highest advantages both in energy consumption and comfort are predicted in the urban scenarios due to the high number of acceleration/deceleration phases.


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    Title :

    Battery Electric Vehicles Platooning: Assessing Capability of Energy Saving and Passenger Comfort Improvement




    Publication date :

    2021-11-17


    Size :

    584449 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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