Vehicle platoons through ring coupling

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1370-1377

  Rogge, Jonathan A ^a   Aeyels, Dirk ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Ring coupling; String stability; Vehicle platoons

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; ERROR ANALYSIS; STABILITY; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

CONTROL STRUCTURES; DESIGN RULES; RING COUPLING; STRING STABILITY; VEHICLE PLATOONS;

VEHICLES;

EID: 51449092039     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2008.925812     Document Type: Article

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