Stability analysis of longitudinal control of a platoon of vehicles by considering lags subject to communication delay

International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1625-1641

  Ghasemi, Ali ^a   Kazemi, Reza ^a   Azadi, Shah Ham ^a  

^a K N TOOSI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Automated highway vehicle; Delay effect; Stability; String stability

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLERS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; HIGHWAY ENGINEERING; LONGITUDINAL CONTROL; MILITARY APPLICATIONS; TIME DELAY; TIME VARYING CONTROL SYSTEMS; VEHICLES;

COMMUNICATION DELAYS; COMMUNICATION TIME; DELAY EFFECTS; DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATIONS; PLATOON OF VEHICLES; SIMULATION EXAMPLE; STRING STABILITY; TRANSMITTING SIGNAL;

STABILITY CRITERIA;

EID: 84919909122     PISSN: 13494198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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