Time headway requirements for string stability of homogeneous linear unidirectionally connected systems

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1992-1997

  Klinge, Steffi ^a   Middleton, Richard H ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; FEEDBACK CONTROL; LINEAR SYSTEMS; SYSTEM STABILITY;

CONNECTED SYSTEMS; CONSTANT TIME; HOMOGENEOUS STRING; L2-NORM; NEAREST NEIGHBOUR; STRING STABILITY; TIME HEADWAY;

TRAFFIC CONTROL;

EID: 77950825334     PISSN: 07431546     EISSN: 25762370     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CDC.2009.5399965     Document Type: Conference Paper

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