Stability and robustness of large platoons of vehicles with double-integrator models and nearest neighbor interaction

International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control

Volumn 23, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 2097-2122

  Hao, He ^a   Barooah, Prabir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

convergence rate; distributed control; H norm; multi agent systems; nonlinear control

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE RATES; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL ARCHITECTURE; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL; MEASURES OF PERFORMANCE; NEAREST-NEIGHBOR INTERACTIONS; NON LINEAR CONTROL; NON-LINEAR CONTROLLERS; STABILITY AND ROBUSTNESS;

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; CONTROLLERS; LINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

EID: 84888324215     PISSN: 10498923     EISSN: 10991239     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rnc.2872     Document Type: Article

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