Time-Discretized Simulation of Vehicle Platoons for Safety Analysis with Guaranteed Error Bounds

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Main Authors: Chen, Yuhao, Cetinkaya, Ahmet
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Published: 2025
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author Chen, Yuhao
Cetinkaya, Ahmet
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Cetinkaya, Ahmet
contents Wireless communication is essential to achieve coordinated control in vehicle platoons. However, packet losses in wireless communication can cause critical safety issues when they occur in conjunction with sudden brakes. In this paper, we propose simulation-based methods that allow the study of such safety issues by determining the absolute minimum distance between vehicles over time for various control parameters that guarantee string stability. For our proposed time-discretized simulations, we provide two methods for selecting different time-step intervals to ensure that the error in distance approximation remains within specified bounds at all times. Through numerical examples we demonstrate that among control parameters that guarantee string stability some perform better than others under simultaneously occurring packet losses and sudden brakes.
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spellingShingle Time-Discretized Simulation of Vehicle Platoons for Safety Analysis with Guaranteed Error Bounds
Chen, Yuhao
Cetinkaya, Ahmet
Systems and Control
Optimization and Control
Wireless communication is essential to achieve coordinated control in vehicle platoons. However, packet losses in wireless communication can cause critical safety issues when they occur in conjunction with sudden brakes. In this paper, we propose simulation-based methods that allow the study of such safety issues by determining the absolute minimum distance between vehicles over time for various control parameters that guarantee string stability. For our proposed time-discretized simulations, we provide two methods for selecting different time-step intervals to ensure that the error in distance approximation remains within specified bounds at all times. Through numerical examples we demonstrate that among control parameters that guarantee string stability some perform better than others under simultaneously occurring packet losses and sudden brakes.
title Time-Discretized Simulation of Vehicle Platoons for Safety Analysis with Guaranteed Error Bounds
topic Systems and Control
Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.09416