Consensus-based vehicle platoon control considering human physiological-psychological comfort

This paper presents a novel consensus control algorithm for a vehicle platoon, taking into account human physiological-psychological comfort. To this end, this paper incorporates state constraints into the optimal velocity-based platoon controller, which can effectively improve the comfort and consensus. Moreover, this paper employs the barrier Lyapunov function (BLF) to prove the stability of the proposed controller, providing more strict stability guarantees. According to theoretical analysis, numerical experiments are conducted to demonstrate the performance of the proposed control algorithm and the benchmark algorithm. The comparative results show that the proposed control algorithm can produce better-uniformed states and bounded state errors.