Cooperative Trajectory Control for Synchronizing the Movement of Two Connected and Autonomous Vehicles Separated in a Mixed Traffic Flow
When connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) are widely used in the future, we can foresee many essential applications, such as platoon formation and autonomous police patrolling, which need two CAVs, originally separated in a mixed traffic flow involving CAVs and human-drive vehicles (HDVs), to quickly approach each other and then keep a stable car-following mode. The entire process should not jeopardize surrounding traffic safety and efficiency. The existing literature has not studied this CAV synchronization control well, and this study seeks to partially make up this gap.