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An Adaptive Vehicle Platoon Formation Mechanism for Road Capacity Improvement (도로 용량 증대를 위한 적응적 차량 플라툰 형성 기법)

  • Su, Dongliang;Ahn, Sanghyun
    • KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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    • v.5 no.10
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    • pp.327-330
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    • 2016
  • In the road environment with lots of vehicles, we can increase the number of vehicles on the road (i.e., road capacity) and enhance the comfortability of drivers if vehicles are organized into platoons. In the traditional vehicle platooning mechanisms, a pre-determined set of vehicles are allowed to form a platoon and, among them, a specific vehicle is designated as the platoon leader. In this type of platoon mechanisms, platoon is limited in improving the road capacity because the vehicles allowed to involve into platooning are restricted. Therefore, in this paper, we propose an adaptive platoon formation mechanism that allows any vehicle to be a platoon leader from which a platoon is formed. In the proposed mechanism, a platoon leader is elected based on the relative velocity and location information of neighboring vehicles obtained through the periodic exchange of beacon messages among vehicles. Through the NS-3 based simulations, we show the performance of our proposed mechanism in terms of road capacity improvement.

EMERGENCY BRAKING CONTROL OF A PLATOON USING STRING STABLE CONTROLLER

  • Kang, Y.;Hedrick, J.K.
    • International Journal of Automotive Technology
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.89-94
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    • 2004
  • In this paper, a safe control strategy is considered in the situation when a platoon of vehicles need to decelerate rapidly. When the vehicles ate spaced closely, it is known that the reference information should be transmitted to the whole platoon to minimize the undesirable effects of small leader disturbances. However, the vehicle control should also depend on the preceding vehicle position to maintain the desired distance. Tracking the preceding vehicle position can lead to amplification of the control input along the following vehicles, therefore the vehicles in the rearward generally exert larger maximum control input than the vehicles in the front. The theoretical bounds for the $i^{th}$ vehicle control input are calculated using a linear vehicle and controller model. In the simple illustrative example, the designed controller maintains string stability, and the control inputs of the following vehicles stay within bounds.

LOS (Line of Sight) Algorithm and Unknown Input Observer Based Leader-Follower Formation Control (LOS 알고리듬과 미지 입력 관측기에 기초한 선도-추종 대형 제어)

  • Yoon, Suk-Min;Yeu, Tae-Kyeong;Park, Seong-Jea;Hong, Sup;Kim, Sang-Bong
    • Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.207-214
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    • 2010
  • This paper proposes about decentralized control approach based Leader-Follower formation control using LOS (Line of Sight) algorithm and unknown input observer. The position of robots which is a basic information in multi-robot or single robot motion control is determined by localization algorithm fusing UPS (Ultrasonic Position System) and kinematics model. For formation control, a decentralized control approach individually installing a local controller in leader and follower robot is adopted. Leader robot is controlled to track a specified trajectory by LOS algorithm, and the other robots follow the leader by local controller based on tracking platoon level function, self-sensing data and estimated information from unknown input observer. The performance of proposed method is proven through the formation experiment of two vehicle models.

The Knowledge Base-Constructing Method of Expert System for Soldiers Psychology Diagnosis with UNIK (UNIK를 이용한 장병 심리진단 전문가 시스템의 지식베이스 구축 방법론)

  • Yang, Hyun-Seung;Park, Sang-Sung;Jang, Dong-Sik
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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    • v.8 no.4 s.23
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    • pp.50-57
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    • 2005
  • This paper describes an expert system for soldiers psychology diagnosis. In the field warfare, platoon leaders or company commanders have to diagnose his soldier's condition correctly. The expert systems, a field of artificial intelligence, can be appropriate approach for ill-structured paradigm. This use an UNIK system. This UNIK system is composed of UNIK-FRAME, UNIK-BWD, UNIK-WBI, UNIK-INDUCE and UNIK-Interface. Especially, UNIK-WBI system is very useful to display soldiers psychology diagnosis and so easy to use it. Any leader or commander can easily do this. This paper data is based on DSMIV. Through This expert system, combat power can be kept and accidents be protected.

Energy-Efficient Division Protocol for Mobile Sink Groups in Wireless Sensor Network (무선 센서 네트워크에서 이동 싱크 그룹의 분리를 지원하기 위한 라우팅 프로토콜)

  • Jang, Jaeyoung;Lee, Euisin
    • KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2017
  • Communications for mobile sink groups such as rescue teams or platoons bring about a new challenging issue for handling mobility in wireless sensor networks. To do this, many studies have been proposed to support mobile sink groups. When closely looking at mobile sink groups, they can be divided into (multiple) small groups according to the property of applications. For example, a platoon can be divided into multiple squads to carry out its mission in the battle field. However, the previous studies cannot efficiently support the division of mobile sink groups because they do not address three challenging issues engendered by the mobile sink group division. The first issue is to select a leader sink for a new small mobile sink group. The efficient data delivery from a source to small mobile sink groups is the second issue. Last, the third issue is to share data between leader sinks of small mobile sink groups. Thus, this paper proposes a routing protocol to efficiently support the division of mobile sink groups by solving the three challenging issues. For the first issue, the proposed protocol selects a leader sink of a new small mobile sink group which provide a minimum summation of the distance between the new leader sink and the previous leader sink and the distance from the new leader sink to all of its member sinks. For the efficient data delivery from a source to small mobile sink groups in the second issue, the proposed protocol determines the path to minimize the data dissemination distance from source to small mobile sink group by calculating with the location information of both the source and the leader sinks. With regard to the third issue, the proposed protocol exploits member sinks located among leader sinks to provide efficient data sharing among leaders sinks by considering the location information of member sinks. Simulation results verified that the proposed protocol is superior to the previous protocol in terms of the energy consumption.

A study on the Relationships among Coaching leadership, Directive leadership, Self-efficacy and Cohesion - Focused on the Marine Corps Soldiers - (코칭 및 지시적 리더십, 자기 효능감과 응집력간의 관계에 관한 연구 - 해병대 소대원을 중심으로 -)

  • Heo, Je-Eun;Lim, Gye-Hwan;Son, Heon-il
    • Convergence Security Journal
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    • v.16 no.3_1
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    • pp.69-75
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    • 2016
  • This study a Empirical research to examine the relationships among Coaching leadership, Directive leadership, Self-Efficacy and Cohesion, On the focus of Marine Corps Soldiers. The data was collected from 370 Soldiers located at Pohang, January 18 to 25, 2016. Descriptive statistics, frequency, t-test, ANOVA, scheffe test, and Pearson correlation analysis were performed using SPSS/WIN 22.0 program. In Cohesiveness, there were significants differences in Age, Branch of Service and Rank. As the result of Pearson' correlation, the relationships between leadership style, Self-efficacy and Cohesion were positive significants. The implications of these findings for effective leradership of Platoon Leader and future research on develop leradership program and curriculum were then discussed.