Stability and scalability of homogeneous vehicular platoon: Study on the influence of information flow topologies

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 14-26

  Zheng, Yang ^a   Li, Shengbo Eben ^a   Wang, Jianqiang ^a   Cao, Dongpu ^b   Li, Keqiang ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autonomous vehicles; Information flow topology; Platoon; Scalability; Stability

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLERS; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; DIRECTED GRAPHS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FEEDBACK LINEARIZATION; FLOW GRAPHS; GRAPH THEORY; LINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; LINEARIZATION; SCALABILITY; STABILITY; STABILITY CRITERIA; TOPOLOGY; VEHICLES;

ALGEBRAIC GRAPH THEORY; BIDIRECTIONAL LEADER; DECENTRALIZED CONTROLLER; EXACT FEEDBACK LINEARIZATION; INTERNAL STABILITY; LINEAR FEEDBACK CONTROLLERS; LONGITUDINAL DYNAMICS; POWERTRAIN DYNAMICS;

VEHICLE TO VEHICLE COMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 84960797490     PISSN: 15249050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2015.2402153     Document Type: Article

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