On the peaking phenomenon in the control of vehicular platoons

Systems and Control Letters

Volumn 57, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 528-537

  Jovanović, Mihailo R ^a   Fowler, Jeffrey M ^b   Bamieh, Bassam ^c   D'Andrea, Raffaello ^d  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b XEROX CORPORATION   (United States)

^c Santa Barbara   (United States)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Distributed control; Inter connected systems; Peaking phenomenon; Vehicular platoons

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FEEDBACK CONTROL; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; VELOCITY CONTROL;

PEAKING PHENOMENON; VEHICULAR PLATOONS;

DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 43749103311     PISSN: 01676911     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sysconle.2007.12.004     Document Type: Article

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