String stability analysis for heterogeneous vehicle strings

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 3118-3125

  Shaw, Elaine ^a,b   Hedrick, J Karl ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; ERRORS; FARM BUILDINGS; OPTICAL BISTABILITY; SYSTEM STABILITY;

CONTROL LAWS; CONTROL POLICIES; CONTROL SCHEMES; FOLLOWING CONTROL; FORMATION CONTROL; IN ORDER; NECESSARY AND SUFFICIENT CONDITIONS; SPACING ERRORS; STRING STABILITY; WORST CASE;

VEHICLES;

EID: 39549095373     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ACC.2007.4282789     Document Type: Conference Paper

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