OPTIMAL SAMPLE-DATA CONTROL OF PRT VEHICLES

In the study of longitudinal control of automated vehicles, two control schemes have evolved. One, the car-following model formulates the control problem in terms of differential position and velocities between each vehicle in a string of n vehicles. The other control scheme, the point-following model, focuses on the design of longitudinal controllers which function in a synchronous or quasi- synchronous manner. This paper develops and analyzes the performance of a deterministic sample-data discrete optimization formulation of the point-follower control scheme.