Schmidt, Klaus W.2020-02-272020-02-272017Schmidt, Klaus W., "Cooperative adaptive cruise control for vehicle following during lane changes", Ifac Papersonline, Vol.50, No.1, pp. 12582-12587, (2017).2405-8963https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2017.08.2199Schmidt, Ece Guran/0000-0002-4062-389XThis paper addresses the longitudinal vehicle behavior before and during lane changes. Hereby, it is desired that the lane-changing vehicle simultaneously follows its predecessors on the lanes before and after the lane change. Specifically, the lane changing vehicle should keep a safe distance to the rearmost predecessor vehicle, while maintaining a small inter vehicle spacing and supporting driving comfort. To this end, the paper develops an extension of cooperative adaptive cruise control (CACC). Instead of following a single vehicle as in the classical realization of CACC, it is proposed to follow a virtual vehicle that is evaluated based on distance measurements and communicated state information from the predecessor vehicles. A simulation study demonstrates the practicability of the proposed method. (C) 2017, IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control) Hosting by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessAutonomous VehiclesCooperative Adaptive Cruise ControlLane ChangesVehicle FollowingSafetyConference Object501125821258710.1016/j.ifacol.2017.08.21992-s2.0-85044316003WOS:000423965200096N/AQ3