String instability in classes of linear time invariant formation control with limited communication range

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1519-1530

  Middleton, Richard H ^a   Braslavsky, Julio H ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bullwhip effect; distributed systems; formation control; performance limitations; string stability

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES; BULLWHIP EFFECTS; COMMUNICATION CONSTRAINTS; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; FORMATION CONTROL; INTER VEHICLE COMMUNICATIONS; LEADING VEHICLE; LIMITED COMMUNICATION RANGE; LINEAR TIME-INVARIANT; LOWER BOUNDS; NEAREST-NEIGHBOR COMMUNICATION; RESPONSE PERFORMANCE; SEMI-RIGID; STRING STABILITY; SUFFICIENT CONDITIONS;

COMMUNICATION; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; STABILITY; SYSTEM STABILITY; VEHICLES;

CONTROL SYSTEM STABILITY;

EID: 77954556004     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2010.2042318     Document Type: Article

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