A Study of Coupled Mobility

-Development and Evaluation of Semi-Mechanical Coupling Type Following System Using Small EV-

Abstract

This study proposes a vehicle following system using semi-mechanical coupling. The coupling couples between two vehicles mechanically in order to get a wired connection and sense a geometric relationship of the vehicles. The following system gets vehicle information and geometric relationship from the leading vehicle using the coupling, and get control over the following vehicle. This paper shows a detail of the following system and an evaluation experiment using electric light vehicles.