Evaluation of a Multi-Vehicle Merging Strategy Under Different Lateral Maneuvers in the Presence of Sudden Braking
The ability for multiple vehicles to merge into an ongoing platoon is an important task in the field of intelligent transportation system (ITS). For such task, first a strategy is required to include a set of rules and actions which allows the incoming vehicles to join the platoon, and second; a safe lateral trajectory generator which always ensures the safety of lateral maneuver in terms of lateral acceleration. In this paper we evaluated the multi-vehicle merging strategy using different lateral trajectory functions under sudden breaking. Simulation results show that for merging task, a switching function is necessary to switch from an adaptive lateral function to a constant lateral trajectory function in case of sudden decelerations.