On achieving size-independent stability margin of vehicular lattice formations with distributed control

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 57, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2688-2694

  Hao, He ^a   Barooah, Prabir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetric control; automated platoon; distributed control; multiagent system; stability margin

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED PLATOON; CLOSED LOOPS; CLOSED-LOOP; CONTROL ARCHITECTURE; CONTROL GAINS; D-DIMENSIONAL LATTICE; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL; EIGEN-VALUE; IN-CONTROL; LATTICE FORMATION; NUMBER OF VEHICLES; PERTURBATION ANALYSIS; REAL PART; RELATIVE POSITIONS; RELATIVE VELOCITY; STABILITY MARGINS; STATE MATRICES; TECHNICAL NOTES; VEHICULAR PLATOONS;

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

STABILITY;

EID: 84866933732     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2012.2191179     Document Type: Article

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