TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2012//
TI  - Vehicle-to-vehicle communication for a platooning system
JO  - Procedia - social and behavioral sciences
A1  - Bergenhem, Carl
A1  - Hedin, Erik
A1  - Skarin, Daniel
SP  - 1222
EP  - 1233
VL  - 48
IS  - 
N2  - This paper describes a vehicle-to-vehicle (V2 V) communication system that is developed in the SARTRE project. The project vision is to develop and integrate technology that enables vehicles to drive in platoons. SARTRE defines a platoon (or road train) as a collection of vehicles where a manually driven heavy lead vehicle is followed by several automatically controlled (both laterally and longitudinally) following trucks and/or passenger cars. The V2 V communication system enables forwarding of messages between vehicles to share data such as vehicle speed. In this paper, we present performance measurements of a first prototype of the V2 V system. This is an important part of the platooning demonstrator that is being developed in the SARTRE project. We evaluate two antenna placements on the lead vehicle; in front on the driver cabin and in the rear on top of the container. Our results show that the rear placement provides superior results, especially for distances above 70 meters.<p />
LA  - en
SN  - 1877-0428
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.06.1098
ID  - ref1
ER  -