Truck platooning system is that when some trucks are driven on a highway for a samedirection, they move in a column. The leading truck is manually driven and othersautomatically follow at a very small distance. In this paper, we propose a lateral control of themechanically coupled truck platoon. A mechanically coupled platoon is controlled withrelative positions of trucks, which are measured by sensors installed in links. The followingtrucks follow the same track as the leading truck. Using this method, we can actualize thissystem with no additional road infrastructure. The effectiveness of our proposed method isillustrated by computer simulation and confirmed by an actual platoon of miniature trucks.
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