Chapter 6

Adaptive Cruise Control

(ACC)

Introduction to ACC
Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) technology
automatically adjust the vehicle speed and
distance to that of a target vehicle. ACC uses a
long range radar sensor to detect a target vehicle
up to 200 meters in front and automatically
adjusts the ACC vehicle speed and gap
accordingly.
ACC automatically decelerates or accelerates the
vehicle according to the desired speed and
distance settings established by the driver. As per
standard cruise control the driver can override the
system at any time.

Common Terms in ACC

Response time of the driver (t): time needed by the
driver to response safely to any unwanted
disturbances (approximately about 2-3 sec)
Safe distance: the distance between vehicle
equipped with ACC to the leading vehicle in front
where the driver is still able to response safely in
case of emergency brake happened to the vehicle in
front

Safe distance = Vs * t
Vs = speed of ACC vehicle
t = 2-3 sec

How ACC works?

System Configuration of
ACC

ACC Control
1. Model free control
(no equations of motion of the
model needed)
2. Model based control
(controller is developed based on
vehicle system model)

Flow chart of ACC Programming (Model free)

System Description of ACC

Model based ACC control

Engine model

Torque Converter Model

Transmission Model

Vehicle Dynamics Model

Develop Simulink Diagram of

Model Based ACC Controller
30 minutes