natzschka2025simopticon
Per Natzschka, Burkhard Hensel and Christoph Sommer, "Simopticon: Automated Optimization of Vehicular Platooning Controllers," Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks, 2025.
Abstract
Platooning control – the automatic distance control in a chain of vehicles – has seen more than 2000 publications in the past 30 years, along with a corresponding number of different algorithms. However, comparisons between such controllers have rarely been done. Moreover, a fair comparison requires that all controller parameters are chosen to be optimal, often manually, which is a labor intensive and hard to replicate process. In this article we demonstrate the benefits of a methodology for parameter selection that encompasses: an evaluator employing a common metric, a simulator component, and an optimizer, all integrated into an optimization framework – along with an open-source reference implementation. We also discuss the trade-offs of different optimization algorithms, both from the literature and custom-built, for parameter optimization of platooning controllers.
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@article{natzschka2025simopticon,
author = {Natzschka, Per and Hensel, Burkhard and Sommer, Christoph},
title = {{Simopticon: Automated Optimization of Vehicular Platooning Controllers}},
journal = {Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks},
doi = {10.1016/j.adhoc.2025.103781},
issn = {1570-8705},
publisher = {Elsevier},
year = {2025},
}
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