Autonomous highway system

Client: Jan Kis, IMC <jan.kis@imc.com>

Highway congestion is a never ending problem. One way to increase the throughput of the highway is to group vehicles into platoons to shorten the distance between two consecutive cars. Further advantages of vehicle platooning are decreased fuel consumption and emissions and increased safety and comfort. Design an automated platooning system in which multiple vehicles autonomously follow the leader. Safety is of paramount importance, each vehicle should do its best to avoid collisions. The goal is to develop a platoon simulation which can be backtested with 3 Lego Mindstorms vehicles.