An Agent Based Layered Decision Process for Vehicle Platoon Control

Vehicle platoon systems can be considered as good alternative solutions to traffic problems encountered in urban environment. Indeed, they allow to propose new public transportation models based on size adaptable trains. In other fields, such as military operation theaters and agricultural fields, platoon systems can also solve specific problems. The goal of this paper is to propose an agent based decision process that allow to handle the control of vehicles platoon. The decision process is composed of 5 interconnected layers each dealing with one specific aspect of the decision process including the perception interpretation, the spatial configuration choice and the control of the vehicles. This model has been tested in simulation by taking into account several geometrical configurations.