Optimal mistuning for improved stability of vehicular platoons

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3020-3025

  Barooah, Prabir ^a   Mehta, Prashant G ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; VEHICLES;

CLOSED LOOP STABILITY; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL; EIGENVALUE OPTIMIZATION; NUMBER OF VEHICLES; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS (PDE); VARIATIONAL FORMULATION; VEHICULAR PLATOONS;

STABILITY;

EID: 77950797664     PISSN: 07431546     EISSN: 25762370     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CDC.2009.5399575     Document Type: Conference Paper

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