Suboptimal decentralized controller design for chain structures: Applications to vehicle formations

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 6894-6900

  Alam, Assad Al ^a   Gattami, Ather ^b   Johansson, Karl H ^b  

^a Research and Development at Scania Technical Centre   (Sweden)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLERS; COST FUNCTIONS; DESIGN; VEHICLES;

DECENTRALIZED CONTROLLER; DECENTRALIZED CONTROLLER DESIGN; HEAVY DUTY VEHICLES; LINEAR QUADRATIC REGULATOR; PHYSICAL CONSTRAINTS; SYSTEMATIC DESIGN METHODOLOGIES; TRACKING PERFORMANCE; VEHICLE CONFIGURATION;

DECENTRALIZED CONTROL;

EID: 84860652242     PISSN: 07431546     EISSN: 25762370     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CDC.2011.6160938     Document Type: Conference Paper

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