Distributed consensus strategy for platooning of vehicles in the presence of time-varying heterogeneous communication delays

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 102-112

  Di Bernardo, Mario ^a,b   Salvi, Alessandro ^a   Santini, Stefania ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agent based control; Consensus; Control of complex network systems; Intelligent transportation systems; Platooning

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX NETWORKS; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; TIME VARYING NETWORKS; VEHICLES; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

AGENT-BASED CONTROL; COMPLEX NETWORK SYSTEMS; CONSENSUS; INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS; PLATOONING;

VEHICLE TO VEHICLE COMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 85027948003     PISSN: 15249050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2014.2328439     Document Type: Article

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