On the ill-posedness of certain vehicular platoon control problems

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages 3780-3785

  Jovanović, Mihailo R ^a   Bamieh, Bassam ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Optimal Control; Spatially Invariant Systems; Vehicular Platoons

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ERROR ANALYSIS; FEEDBACK CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; POSITION CONTROL; VEHICLES;

CONTROL PROBLEMS; OPTIMAL CONTROL; SPATIALLY INVARIANT SYSTEMS; VEHICULAR PLATOONS;

CONTROL THEORY;

EID: 14244251755     PISSN: 07431546     EISSN: 25762370     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/cdc.2004.1429327     Document Type: Conference Paper

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