Stable decentralized control of a platoon of vehicles with heterogeneous information feedback

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 62, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 4299-4308

  Ghasemi, Ali ^a   Kazemi, Reza ^a   Azadi, Shahram ^a  

^a K N TOOSI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Bidirectional adaptive cruise control (ACC); heterogeneity; partial differential equation (PDE) approximation; platoon of vehicles; stability; string stability

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL; CONTROLLERS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; STABILITY CRITERIA;

ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL (ACC); HETEROGENEITY; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS (PDE); PLATOON OF VEHICLES; STRING STABILITY;

VEHICLES;

EID: 84888031362     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2013.2253500     Document Type: Article

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