Controlling a platoon of vehicles with distributed collision avoidance capabilities

IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline)

Volumn 12, Issue PART 1, 2006, Pages

  Ferrara, Antonella ^a   Vecchio, Claudio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Automated guided vehicles; Cruise control; Obstacles avoidance; Obstacles detection; Sliding mode control; Vehicle dynamics

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; AUTOMATIC GUIDED VEHICLES; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; SLIDING MODE CONTROL;

AUTOMATED GUIDED VEHICLES; CAPACITY OF ROAD NETWORK; CO-ORDINATED CONTROL; CURRENT CONTROL MODES; LOW-LEVEL CONTROLLERS; OBSTACLES AVOIDANCE; OBSTACLES DETECTION; VEHICLE DYNAMICS;

CRUISE CONTROL;

EID: 79961184427     PISSN: 14746670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3182/20060517-3-fr-2903.00125     Document Type: Conference Paper

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