A cooperative control method for platoon and intelligent vehicles management

The intelligent vehicle concept has been widely developed with the aim of solving problems caused by the increasing of vehicles in cities, such as congestion, air pollution and accident. With the increasing use of intelligent vehicles, traffic flow control methods have been improved as compared to the traditional methods, such as traffic light management. Among new possible methods, the one we want to explore in this paper is to combine several relative intelligent vehicles into one platoon with a reduced distance and allowing an increase of the road capacity. However, the use of platoons brings some issues at system level, for instance when several platoons encounter with each other at road nodes. In order to give answers to these issues, we define one organization strategies including defined interactions between vehicles and between platoons. In this paper, one multi-agent model is proposed to tackle with this issue. The proposed algorithm is implemented based on multi-level control method and is experimented in the scenario where one vehiclestrain composed by three vehicles is reconfigured in two lane road.