Preceding Vehicle Following Based on Path Following Control for Platooning

A project to develop a platoon system, called “Energy ITS”, has been proceeding by NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization) in Japan. In a platoon, several automated vehicles run as one group. In this paper, an autonomous steering control method to follow the preceding vehicle is proposed without the information of road's lane marker based on a lane keeping method. The experimental results are shown to confirm the usefulness of our proposed method.