Should adaptive cruise-control systems be designed to maintain a constant time gap between vehicles?

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1480-1490

  Wang, Junmin ^a   Rajamani, Rajesh ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; HIGHWAY TRAFFIC CONTROL; MATRIX ALGEBRA; SYSTEM STABILITY; VEHICLES;

ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL; CONSTANT TIME GAP; TRAFFIC FLOW; TRAFFIC FLOW STABILITY; VEHICLE CONTROL;

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 4744359874     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2004.832386     Document Type: Article

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