Why Do We Need Bilateral Control? - In View Of Energy Consumption

Bilateral control is a kind of new control system proposed by Berthold K.P. Horn, MIT, in 2013. Using information from both sources which allows the gain of feedback to be reduced below one, the new control system effectively eliminate the instability characteristic of car following.” model. In addition to its intrinsic characteristics, suppressing the traffic flow faster, people are more concerned about how much energy consumption or fuel consumption can be reduced by such a new mechanism. Taking various factors into account, including platooning effect, the article presents a general calculation method here.