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This paper presents a reactive multi-agent system for echelon platoon organization. Platoon systems are sets of vehicles that move together while keeping a predefined geometrical configuration without any material coupling. Each vehicle represents an autonomous agent that behaves based only on its own perceptions. The distributed platoon organization problem consists in defining the algorithms to be executed by each vehicle’s embedded software, in order to maintain the desired platoon configuration during displacements. Platoon systems found in literature deal generally with column formations adapted to urban or highway transportation systems. Other formations such as line, echelon,... can be encountered in fields like agriculture and the military. In this paper, we focus on the platoon echelon formation.
An approach based on a virtual vehicle-to-vehicle interaction model composed of two springs is proposed. Those virtual springs attach a platoon’s vehicle to its local leader, another platoon’s vehicle. In this work, five different spring’s attachment points are evaluated, to compare them and conclude about the more suitable one, depending on platoon’s trajectory. Eventually, from the evaluation results, it can be conceived to make attachment points evolve during platoon operation.
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El Zaher, M., Contet, JM., Gechter, F., Koukam, A. (2012). Echelon Platoon Organisation: A Distributed Approach Based on 2-Spring Virtual Links. In: Ramsay, A., Agre, G. (eds) Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, and Applications. AIMSA 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7557. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33185-5_28
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