Robust measures for a large platoon of vehicles using non-identical controllers

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Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 424-429

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Decentralized Control; Intelligent Transportation Systems; Robust Measures; String Stability

Indexed keywords

CLOSED LOOP SYSTEMS; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; ROBUST CONTROL; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SYSTEM STABILITY; THREE TERM CONTROL SYSTEMS; VEHICLES;

DECENTRALIZED PID CONTROLLER; NON-IDENTICAL CONTROLLERS; PLATOON OF VEHICLES; ROBUSTNESS MEASURES; STABILITY RADIUS; STABILITY ROBUSTNESS; STRING STABILITY; VEHICLE TO VEHICLES;

CONTROLLERS;

EID: 33645407443     PISSN: 14746670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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