Decentralized spacing control of a string of multiple vehicles over lossy datalinks

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 469-473

  Teo, Rodney ^a   Stipanović, Dušan M ^b   Tomlin, Claire J ^c,d  

^a DSO NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d 496 Lomita Mall   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication loss; Decentralized control; Leader to formation stability; Multiple vehicles; Spacing control; String stability; Wireless datalink

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION LOSS; DATALINK; FORMATION STABILITY; LEADER-TO-FORMATION STABILITY; MULTIPLE VEHICLES; STRING STABILITY;

AIRCRAFT CONTROL; HIGHWAY ENGINEERING; SPACECRAFT; STABILITY;

DECENTRALIZED CONTROL;

EID: 77649191647     PISSN: 10636536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCST.2009.2016109     Document Type: Article

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