Energy Efficient Truck Platooning

Project Description

This project aims to enhance the efficiency of a trucks fleet operating in a highway.

The fleet comprises trucks with diverse fuel consumption rates, and the leading vehicle faces additional fuel consumption due to aerodynamic drag. The improved efficiency is obtained by changing the fleet leader in order to smartly split the effort among all the trucks.

The project is structured around four key points. Firstly, proposing the implementation of Distributed Extended Kalman Filkter (DEKF) for precise localization. Secondly, conducting the implementation and analysis of Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC) to manage longitudinal dynamics. The third point concerns the implementation an optimization strategy designed to maximize overall fleet efficiency by rotating the leader position among the vehicles. Lastly, an overtaking maneuver scheme is proposed to accomplish the optimal schedule.