Cooperative Range Extension Autonomous Driving of Electric Vehicles Considering Inter-Vehicular Distance

Abstract

Nowadays Electric Vehicles (EVs) attract people’s attention as means of an environmental problem. However, EVs have disadvantages of their short cruising range. Therefore, our group has proposed Range Extension Autonomous Driving (READ) system which minimizes the consumption energy by optimizing the velocity profile. This paper extendes the method for minimizing the total consumption energy by cooperating with two electric vehicles. The effectiveness of the proposed method is verified by simulations and experiments.