On avoiding saturation in the control of vehicular platoons

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2004, Pages 2257-2262

  Jovanović, Mihailo R ^a,b   Fowler, Jeffrey M ^a,b   Bamieh, Bassam ^a,b   D'Andrea, Raffaello ^a,b  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed Control; Spatially Interconnected Systems; Vehicular Platoons

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; VEHICLES;

CONTROL LAWS; SPATIALLY INTERCONNECTED SYSTEM; VEHICULAR PLATOONS;

SPEED CONTROL;

EID: 8744307736     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.23919/acc.2004.1383798     Document Type: Conference Paper

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