Citation

Sugimachi T, Fukao T, Suzuki Y. Trans. Soc. Automot. Eng. Jpn. 2013; 44(1): 193-198.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan)

DOI

10.11351/jsaeronbun.44.193

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

In Japan, a new project for reducing CO2, called "Energy ITS project", has started since 2008 by NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization). In this project, an autonomous platooning system of heavy-duty trucks is developed to reduce the amount of CO2 emission. This project assumes that trucks run in mixed-traffic, where there are various dangerous factors such as a broken-down car, an obstacle and so on. Therefore, the technology of autonomous lane changing for safe platooning is required. In this paper, the method of autonomous lane changing based on path following is proposed and confirmed to be very effective by experiments.

Language: ja

Keywords

autonomous driving system; control system; electronics and control; ITS; lane change