Development of a Cooperative Automated Driving System via LTE-V

Cooperative automated driving is a promising technology which mainly uses the V2V communication to establish the platoon and this helps to improve road safety, fuel consumption and traffic throughput. In this paper, an overview of a cooperative automated driving system is presented and this implementation is the first one which uses the LTE-V technology to realize V2V communication. We first address the perception algorithm and we also present the low-level control method based on the model predictive control framework. Moreover, we discuss the system performance with the experimental results. The experimental results show that a vehicle in platoon can follow the front one automatically with a stable formation, even when the leading vehicle has a large change in velocity.