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Despite growing interest in vehicle platooning research, the effect of communication capability between platoons is not investigated to a depth of depth. In this paper, we extend a single-platoon car-following (CF) model to multi-platoon CF…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-27 Shouwei Hui , Michael Zhang

Platooning has been exploited as a method for vehicles to minimize energy consumption. In this article, we present a constraint-driven optimal control framework that yields emergent platooning behavior for connected and automated vehicles…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Logan E. Beaver , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

Connected automated vehicles (CAVs) could potentially be coordinated to safely attain the maximum traffic flow on roadways under dynamic traffic patterns, such as those engendered by the merger of two strings of vehicles due a lane drop.…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-10-09 Aria HasanzadeZonuzy , Sina Arefizadeh , Alireza Talebpour , Srinivas Shakkottai , Swaroop Darbha

Autonomy and connectivity are considered among the most promising technologies to improve safety, mobility, fuel and time consumption in transportation systems. Some of the fuel efficiency benefits of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-01-24 Xiangguo Liu , Guangchen Zhao , Neda Masoud , Qi Zhu

Platooning allows vehicles to travel with small intervehicle distance in a coordinated fashion thanks to vehicle-to-vehicle connectivity. When applied at a larger scale, platooning will create significant opportunities for energy savings…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Vadim Sokolov , Jeffrey Larson , Todd Munson , Josh Auld , Dominik Karbowski

Multi-UAV air combat is a complex task involving multiple autonomous UAVs, an evolving field in both aerospace and artificial intelligence. This paper aims to enhance adversarial performance through collaborative strategies. Previous…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Jinhui Pang , Jinglin He , Noureldin Mohamed Abdelaal Ahmed Mohamed , Changqing Lin , Zhihui Zhang , Xiaoshuai Hao

Autonomous ground vehicles (AGVs) must navigate safely in cluttered environments while accounting for complex dynamics and environmental uncertainty. Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability (HJR) offers formal safety guarantees through the computation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Granthik Halder , Rudrashis Majumder , Rakshith M R , Rahi Shah , Suresh Sundaram

In this paper, we study mixed traffic systems that move along a single-lane ring-road or open-road. The traffic flow forms a platoon, which includes a number of heterogeneous human-driven vehicles (HDVs) together with only one connected and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-29 Shima Sadat Mousavi , Somayeh Bahrami , Anastasios Kouvelas

We present Multi-Agent gatekeeper, a framework that provides provable safety guarantees for leader-follower formation control in cluttered 3D environments. Existing methods face a trad-off: online planners and controllers lack formal safety…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Thomas Marshall Vielmetti , Devansh R Agrawal , Dimitra Panagou

Hamilton-Jacobi reachability (HJR) provides a value function that encodes the set of states from which a system with bounded control inputs can reach or avoid a target despite any bounded disturbance, and the corresponding robust, optimal…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Will Sharpless , Yat Tin Chow , Sylvia Herbert

Hamilton-Jacobi-Isaacs (HJI) reachability analysis is a powerful tool for analyzing the safety of autonomous systems. This analysis is computationally intensive and typically performed offline. Online, however, the autonomous system may…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Sylvia L. Herbert , Shromona Ghosh , Somil Bansal , Claire J. Tomlin

Uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly deployed in complex networked environments, yet the joint optimization of multi-UAV motion control and connectivity remains a fundamental challenge. In this paper, we study a multi-UAV system…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Zijiang Yan , Hao Zhou , Wael Jaafar , Jianhua Pei , Ping Wang , Halim Yanikomeroglu , Hina Tabassum

Reach-avoid specifications are one of the most common tasks in autonomous aerial vehicle (UAV) applications. Despite the intensive research and development associated with control of aerial vehicles, generating feasible trajectories though…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-03 Mohamed Serry , Haocheng Chang , Jun Liu

Vehicle platooning is an automated driving technology that enables a group of vehicles to travel very closely together as a single unit to improve fuel efficiency and driver safety and reduces CO2 emission. The significant benefits of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Myounggyu Won

In hybrid traffic environments where human-driven vehicles (HDVs) and autonomous vehicles (AVs) coexist, achieving safe and robust decision-making for AV platooning remains a complex challenge. Existing platooning systems often struggle…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Chengkai Xu , Zihao Deng , Jiaqi Liu , Aijing Kong , Yu Tang , Chao Huang , Peng Hang

The use of multi-rotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for search and rescue as well as remote sensing is rapidly increasing. Multi-rotor UAVs, however, have limited endurance. The range of UAV applications can be widened if teams of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Xiaolong Zhu , Fernando Vanegas , Felipe Gonzalez , Conrad Sanderson

Platooning represents an advanced driving technology designed to assist drivers in traffic convoys of varying lengths, enhancing road safety, reducing driver fatigue, and improving fuel efficiency. Sophisticated automated driving assistance…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Akif Adas , Stefano Arrigoni , Mattia Brambilla , Monica Barbara Nicoli , Edoardo Sabbioni

The Hopf formula for Hamilton-Jacobi reachability (HJR) analysis has been proposed to solve high-dimensional differential games, producing the set of initial states and corresponding controller required to reach (or avoid) a target despite…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Will Sharpless , Nikhil Shinde , Matthew Kim , Yat Tin Chow , Sylvia Herbert

There is increasing demand for control of multi-robot and as well distributing large amounts of content to cluster of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) on the operation. In recent years several large-scale accidents have happened. To…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-18 Rahim Rahmani , Ramin Firouzi , Theo Kanter

Autonomous vehicular platoons will play an important role in improving on-road safety in tomorrow's smart cities. Vehicles in an autonomous platoon can exploit vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications to collect information, such as velocity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-22 Tengchan Zeng , Omid Semiari , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis