Assessment of Control Efficiency in a Vehicle Platooning Application

In this paper we propose a comparative analysis of control efficiency for several methods suitable for a vehicle platooning application. To this end, we compare the results obtained with both Distributed Model Predictive Control strategy and Coalitional Control using an optimal feedback gain matrix control methodology. The string stability of the platoon is ensured via an infinity-norm longitudinal error constraint imposed in the optimization problem. Our results suggest that both control strategies give similar control performances, at different computational efforts.