Decentralized control of a large platoon of vehicles operating on a plane with steering dynamics

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages 2159-2165

  Khatir, Maziar E ^a   Davison, Edward J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Decentralized Control; Intelligent Transportation Systems; String Stability; Vehicle Control

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TRACTION (FRICTION); VEHICLES;

NON-IDENTICAL CONTROLLERS; STEERING DYNAMICS; STRING STABILITY;

DECENTRALIZED CONTROL;

EID: 23944468088     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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