Welcome to PlaFoSim’s documentation!

“Platoon Formation Simulator”, or “PlaFoSim” for short, is an open source simulator for platoon formation, aiming for simplicity, flexibility, and scalability. PlaFoSim aims to facilitate and accelerate the research of platoon maneuvers and formation for individually driven vehicles. While the main focus of the simulator is on the assignment process, simulation of advertisements and maneuvers is implemented in a more abstract way.

PlaFoSim has been published at IEEE VNC 2021:

Julian Heinovski, Dominik S. Buse and Falko Dressler, “Scalable Simulation of Platoon Formation Maneuvers with PlaFoSim,” Proceedings of 13th IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC 2021), Poster Session, Virtual Conference, November 2021, pp. 137–138.

Note

This project is under active development.

Citing

If you are working with PlaFoSim, we would appreciate a citation of our paper:

@inproceedings{heinovski2021scalable,
    author = {Heinovski, Julian and Buse, Dominik S. and Dressler, Falko},
    doi = {10.1109/VNC52810.2021.9644678},
    title = {{Scalable Simulation of Platoon Formation Maneuvers with PlaFoSim}},
    pages = {137--138},
    publisher = {IEEE},
    issn = {2157-9865},
    isbn = {978-1-66544-450-7},
    address = {Virtual Conference},
    booktitle = {13th IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC 2021), Poster Session},
    month = {11},
    year = {2021},
}

License

PlaFoSim is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License 3.0 or later.

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