On the ill-posedness of certain vehicular platoon control problems

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1307-1321

  Jovanović, Mihailo R ^a   Bamieh, Bassam ^b  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Optimal control; Spatially invariant systems; Toeplitz and circulant matrices; Vehicular platoons

Indexed keywords

CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FEEDBACK CONTROL; MATRIX ALGEBRA; SYSTEM STABILITY;

SPATIALLY VARIANT SYSTEMS; VEHICULAR PLATOONS;

OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 25844488985     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2005.854584     Document Type: Article

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