Mistuning-based control design to improve closed-loop stability margin of vehicular platoons

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 54, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2100-2113

  Barooah, Prabir ^a   Mehta, Prashant G ^b   Hespanha, Jaõo P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Partial differential equation (PDE)

Indexed keywords

CLOSED LOOP STABILITY; CONSTANT VELOCITIES; CONTROL DESIGN; CONTROL OBJECTIVES; DOUBLE INTEGRATOR; LOCAL INFORMATION; LOSS OF STABILITY; MISTUNING; NEAREST NEIGHBORS; NUMBER OF VEHICLES; PDE MODEL; STRAIGHT LINES; VEHICULAR PLATOONS;

AD HOC NETWORKS; AIRCRAFT ENGINES; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; MILITARY VEHICLES;

PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

EID: 70349416405     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2009.2026934     Document Type: Article

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