Limitations of employing undirected information flow graphs for the maintenance of rigid formations for heterogeneous vehicles

International Journal of Engineering Science

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1164-1178

  Darbha, S ^a   Pagilla, P R ^b  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

^b Oklahoma State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Approximately rigid formations; Autonomous vehicles; String instability

Indexed keywords

ACTUATION SYSTEMS; ADJACENT VEHICLES; AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES; COMMUNICATION FAILURE; CRITICAL SIZE; DISTURBING FORCES; FOLLOWING VEHICLE; HETEROGENEOUS VEHICLES; INFORMATION FLOW GRAPHS; LINEAR AND TIME INVARIANTS; LINEAR CONTROLLERS; POINT MASS; RELATIVE POSITIONS; RIGID FORMATIONS; SAFE DISTANCE; SEPARATION DISTANCES; SPACING ERRORS; STRING INSTABILITY; STRUCTURED CONTROLLERS;

CONTROL THEORY; CONTROLLERS; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; GRAPHIC METHODS; LINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; MAINTENANCE; RATIONAL FUNCTIONS;

VEHICLES;

EID: 78649635169     PISSN: 00207225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijengsci.2010.08.013     Document Type: Article

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