Handong Li

• Email: h.li38@ncl.ac.uk

Supervisors

• Prof Volker Pickert
• Prof Satnam Dlay

Project description

From the perspective of efficiency and energy, vehicular platoon systems are an effective tool for mass transport. Platooning involves linking vehicles in convoy. The vehicles keep a set distance between each other. We use two technologies for platooning:

• Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V)
• Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I)

These are combined with linear or non-linear control for vehicle distance and velocity.

Tracked Electric Vehicles (TEVs) are a recently proposed mass-transport system. In TEVs, the inter-vehicular distance is only 0.25 times the regular car length, when the car drives at 200km/h.

With the help of V2V and V2I, we can design a novel controller to tackle the inter-vehicular distance at high speeds for platooning systems. Communication structures and controller design in the vehicular platooning is the key to decreasing the inter-vehicular distance.

Publications

• Li H, Tiwari R, Pickert V, Dlay S. Fuzzy Control for Platooning Systems Based on V2V Communication. In: International Conference on Computing, Electronics & Communications Engineering (iCCECE) 2018, IEEE, 247-252.
• Li H, Gulati I, Stainton S, Ali SA, Pickert V, Dlay S. Sliding Mode Control for Vehicular Platoon based on V2V Communication. In: Proceedings of the 32nd International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation ION GNSS+ 2019, USA: Florida.
• Ali S, Pickert V, Al-harbi M, Patsios H, Li H. Tracked Electric Vehicle (TEV) Project. 28th Aachen Colloquium Automobile and Engine Technology 2019, Germany.

Interests

V2V communication, control, Vehicular platoon.