| Citation: | WANG Xu, JIANG Xinguo, ZHAO Xinyu. Safety Risk Analysis of Connected and Automated Vehicle Platoons Considering Sensor Noise[J].Journal of Southwest Jiaotong University, 2025, 60(6): 1465-1475.doi:10.3969/j.issn.0258-2724.20230418 |
The scenario in which vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication between connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) fails was studied, and the onboard sensors were used to perceive the motion state of the preceding vehicle. The impact of sensor noise on the safety risk of the CAV platoon was analyzed. First, a CAV dynamics model was established based on the intelligent driver model (IDM), and two sensing modes for perceiving the predecessor’s motion state were proposed. The sources of sensor noise were analyzed, and an adaptive Kalman filter (AKF) was applied for noise processing. Finally, two simulation experiments were conducted under extreme (sudden deceleration of the lead vehicle) and normal (trajectory data based on the NGSIM dataset) scenarios. Surrogate safety metrics, including time integrated time-to-collision (TIT), were used to evaluate the overall platoon safety risk and the effect of noise under different vehicle degradation positions and time headways. The results indicate that after denoising, both TIT and TET significantly decrease. The safety risk of the platoon decreases as the degraded vehicle position moves rearward, and the time headway increases. The highest risk occurs when the second vehicle degrades with a time headway of 0.6 s. When degradation occurs from the fourth vehicle onward, the severe and moderate safety risks are minimized, and the influence of sensor noise becomes negligible. In this case, the safety risk is mainly determined by the time headway.

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